New Showtank

[Scribbles]

Beautiful tank and discus!

Chris

[MikeF]

I love that tank. Thanks for sharing. I think that some rose reds will be in my future.

[pastry]

okay, very very veerrrry jealous of that tank. absolutely AWESOME. i love the sand, the lighting, the background, wood, anubias growing on the wood, and having near the same color discus in there.

little by little i've been improving mine. still working on the plants. my discus are a mixed bunch of turqoise/cobalts with tangerine/pb's. i'd love to just keep one color scheme but too attached to give any away.

do you still have the tank set up? could we see updates? are all of the plants on the driftwood anubias?

[Sharkbait]

Hey Danne,

What is the bioload for the tank? In the video it looks like it's pretty densely planted with the driftwood. 8 discus? I saw a whole wack of corys, shrimp and neons.

If it's a 500L (about 130gallon) tank, how often do you change the water? I'd like to stick to around once a week to keep my EI dosing method in check.

Just curious because I have a densely planted tank with a couple schools of smaller tetras and was just running around the issue of swimming space, bioload, etc. and if I have to trim back on my plants or sell livestock.

[fishkeeper59]

thats a beautiful tank, where can i find a background like that in theUSA?, i pulled up the website and all their disributors are overseas. and your fish are awesome, you got it going on. good luck

[Patr1ck]

Here are a couple. I got mine from the first link.
http://aquariumhabitats.com/backgrounds.html
http://www.notjustfish.com/
This one is the manufacturers site.
http://www.aquaterra-intl.com/index.html
I got the Mesa Flatrock. I love it and have had it for almost a year. So far so good. As far as debris getting behind it, Ive see none. A few of my shrimp and a Hillstream Loach live back there maybe they help out.
hth,
Pat

[dizkuz]

Thanks eddie, the best to you to

Hi Dan
Im not using any plecos im only use Sturisoma and my corrys in this set up... But i know many people in sweden using l-128 l-200 on and so on with BTN.. Only the worse wood eaters will be banned, as Panaques.....

Thanks Chef, scribbles and Mike f

Pastry
No its not only Anubias, its many different anubias and many different javas ( Microsorum Pteropus) and many different moss and some bolbits on the woods... And the tank is still running and i added a photo for you but no photo session lately at the tank. I hope the best to your tank

sharkbait

Yes it was overload with fish for some time but its only 5 of the that livs in the tank, few went to friends breeding prog, and i lost two when my heater broken and almost boiled them all..........
So 5 discus and 20 corydoras and some tetras and 2 Sturisoma and some scrimps... Feed only 2 times a day and never use any heart mix, my fish was from BB tanks to adulthood than put them over here, dont need the same food because they dont grow no more..... An i do EI with 60-70% WC a Week, sometime i do 2 wc in the same week... I have a fluval 405 and 2 UV consider filters behind the BTN. But sure i need to prune down some greeens time 2 time so the can swim around the centerpiece of wood....

Fishkeeper thanks and nice to see that patr1ck helped you out

Big thanks for your intress
brgds Danne

[rickztahone]

that's a gorgeous tank!

[velocilraptor]

Amazing looks very natural, like a picture from nature... well done

[toomanyfish]

hi..
Am in love with your tank and have been following it very keenly.going to be setting up a tank very closely based on yours hope i do well...also i liked the initial setup with lots of the annubias rather than the last pic you posted but thats just my opinion

[dizkuz]

Thanks Rick, Val, toomanyfish

I got bored to the school of neons so i had to get me some new fish to the tank... And believe me when i say it wasn't easy to get hold of them

Anyway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqiciST3z2A
Brgds D

[jball1125]

Wow that is beautiful!

How do you keep your plants sooooooo green without using co2 or high lighting?

[dizkuz]

A Small update!

Rescaped the tank and the BTN had to go





Name: Destination java island
Tank: 135x50x70(lxbxh)
Filter: Fluval 405, 2 x Aquael Uni Filter UV 750
Light: 38w t8 x 2 powerglo 18000k, 38w t8 x 1 Sylvania Aquastar 10000k, 2 x power glo t5 39w 6,700 K
Co2: 1 b/s
Substrat: Sand


Flora:
Anubias barteri
Anubias nana
Anubias barteri var. nana petite
Microsorum pteropus
Microsorum pteropus narrow
Bolbitis heudelotii
Crinum calamistratum
Hygrophila polysperma
Vesicularia dubyana
Taxiphyllum sp peacock
Eleocharis acicularis
Sagittaria subulata
Cryptocoryne crispatula
Hydrocotyle verticillata.


Fauna:
Corydors sterbi
Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi
Neocaridina heteropoda
Tetraodon travancoricus
Otocinclus macrospilus
Symphysodon sp
Hyphessobrycon cf. ornatus
Mikrogeophagus ramirezi

[yikesjason]

It looks very nice, great job.

[waters10]

A Small update!

Rescaped the tank and the BTN had to go



Name: Destination java island
Tank: 135x50x70(lxbxh)
Filter: Fluval 405, 2 x Aquael Uni Filter UV 750
Light: 38w t8 x 2 powerglo 18000k, 38w t8 x 1 Sylvania Aquastar 10000k, 2 x power glo t5 39w 6,700 K
Co2: 1 b/s
Substrat: Sand


Flora:
Anubias barteri
Anubias nana
Anubias barteri var. nana petite
Microsorum pteropus
Microsorum pteropus narrow
Bolbitis heudelotii
Crinum calamistratum
Hygrophila polysperma
Vesicularia dubyana
Taxiphyllum sp peacock
Eleocharis acicularis
Sagittaria subulata
Cryptocoryne crispatula
Hydrocotyle verticillata.


Fauna:
Corydors sterbi
Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi
Neocaridina heteropoda
Tetraodon travancoricus
Otocinclus macrospilus
Symphysodon sp
Hyphessobrycon cf. ornatus
Mikrogeophagus ramirezi

What was the reason you got rid of the background?

I personally thought this was the most impressive discus tank that I've seen on this forum! I can't think of a reason to rescape it!

Can we get a full tank shot?