1 year later

[Darren's Discus]

Very nice,tanks and fish look great thanks for sharing.


cheers

[architect1]

Hey A1 thank you vary much for your kind words. I do have 4 runts 2 are mandarin passion that haven't grown for 2 years. But one of them has grown about 1 full inch maybe more in the past 3 months. I don't know why but she has.

I also have 2 gold snake skins that are only a year old that I'm trying to get to grow a lot more before they slow down completely. There sister/brothers are about 6 inches. So I got some work to do but its coming along.

[Kindredspirit]

They look great! I love your driftwood

[architect1]

Hahahaha thank you kindred. You know where I got it? I long term borrowed it from my x landlord. He was slowly buying the house back and his parents did the gardening before they moved out. He stoped doing it and I put it in my tank for the 8 months that I was there and I kept it ever since.

[Discus-Hans]

architect,

you can do more with that tank, no comment, just advice.

keep the sand in the front of the tank 1/2 to 1" and in the back 4-5" it give you the effect you have a much deeper tank.


Hans

[Kindredspirit]

keep the sand in the front of the tank 1/2 to 1" and in the back 4-5" it give you the effect you have a much deeper tank.


Hans

Really? I think I shall give that a try when I switch to sand Thanks, Hans

[willbldrco]

architect,

you can do more with that tank, no comment, just advice.

keep the sand in the front of the tank 1/2 to 1" and in the back 4-5" it give you the effect you have a much deeper tank.


Hans

Agreed. This is a classical dutch aquarium technique. It adds height and depth to the look of the aquarium. You don't even have to slope it across the entire bottom of the aquarium - just push the sand away from the front in a slope 3-4 inches toward the back. You will get the same effect and it takes, like, 30 seconds to do.

As a bonus, with that slope, I've found it concentrates waste near the front for easy siphoning.

So you have 6 discus in this aquarium, right? How big is it again?

Will

[architect1]

architect,

you can do more with that tank, no comment, just advice.

keep the sand in the front of the tank 1/2 to 1" and in the back 4-5" it give you the effect you have a much deeper tank.


Hans

Yeah I agree hans just waiting to get more money then real plants are going in and I will be getting more rocks or something for some bottom living fish. I also want to add a schooling fish in there but not sure witch to do.

Thank you for your input Hans.

[architect1]

Agreed. This is a classical dutch aquarium technique. It adds height and depth to the look of the aquarium. You don't even have to slope it across the entire bottom of the aquarium - just push the sand away from the front in a slope 3-4 inches toward the back. You will get the same effect and it takes, like, 30 seconds to do.

As a bonus, with that slope, I've found it concentrates waste near the front for easy siphoning.

So you have 6 discus in this aquarium, right? How big is it again?

Will

I have


4 Goldsnake skins ones name is mini me, Tweedel-dee and Tweedel-dumb and the 4th unknown.
2 Blue diamonds, Alpha Basted, and Midnight.
1 Blue Turq thats Alpha Basters g/f and shes Tiger
2 mandarin passion and the bigger one is Mellon head and the other is pink lady

so 9 discus, 5 angels, 1 sea algae eater, 1 bushy nosed pleco then theres 2 adult swords and 5 baby swords witch I called them beg my french sh_t stains lol.

SO thats the list oh and the tank is 100tall so about 112 gallons if it was a bb tank.

[Barb Newell]

Very nice!

Barb

[architect1]

Hey barb thank you. Your discus are starting to color up beautiful now. i just wish my 2 runts would grow bigger faster be for its to
late.

[pinkertd]

Very nice tank! Love the driftwood too!

[architect1]

Debbie thank you so much for the kind words. What else can I do any more ideas simply?

Hey paul where are u I normally hear something from you.

[dawncollette]

hey architect, nice discus, plants, and aquarium. Keep up the good work, I can tell you love your fish!!

[architect1]

dawncollette Thank you so much. To be honest I love my discus, there like my family; as most discus owners feel when they see them grow from babies to adults.

The tank, I wish i had new, and the plants to be honest are fake lol. I can't find any real ones that are good quality, they have fish swimming in them, or there really poor grade of a plant.

I thank you for the compliments and observation.