Pictures from the goldmine

[KisA]

Did you know, how the Xingu cocktail is made? No?
Here is the secret.
Get a glass
80kg fine sand
some wood or root
1 m3 RO water
some Super quality xingu discus (warning, if you use to much, the cocktail should be very spicy)

Put the sand in the glass. DO NOT SHAKE IT!!!
Fill it with the water.
Fix the root, or the wood in the upper edge of the glass. It will look gooooood.
Put the fish in the glass, and voala.
The Xingu cocktail is ready.
Enjoy.
Here is mine:

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more pic will be added later.

KisA

[4discus]

WOW! that is a work of art.

[joanstone]

Love it

[Darrell Ward]

How can you tell? Picture is too dark.

[joanstone]

I can see it well enough to tell, i think it's a cool photograph.

[KisA]

it was taken by a video camera. today i'm going to start to video section too. you can find there a visible video from this new setup.
it takes more than 4 hours to cut and fix the root there (i dont have any special tool, just using a steelsaw), my muscles are burning now, but i think it is worth it. this root size is 130x55x54.
When i tried to get over it from the tank, my L81 didnt want to leave his place, therefore i had to use some trick, but after using pipecleaner from the other side of his hole, he leaved it, and swam down to the sand.
I love the minimal style what is the best if somebody want to keep wild discus.

KisA

[NanDiscus]

http://youtu.be/pPARUG1yN5Y

Note the pair raising some fry on the left-hand-side.

Nandi

[wgtaylor]

Hi Nandi and KisA,
I like your name, Goldmine.
Congratulations on all the gold nuggets. Xingu still one of my favorite and KisA avatar is beautiful.
Bill

[DiscusBR]

No words. I am speechless. And drooling...

Congratulations for the beautiful fish and great setup

Will the fry survive in that big tank?

[jimmyjoe]

Question KisA the huge tree trunk root in the center is it just afloat there or is it anchored to something? No matter how you've done it beautiful amosphere you have presented here very nice and sooooooooooo sweeeeeeeeet looking. Jim in Ohio

[KisA]

thanks the gratulations
Jimmy,
i did a small chop, and pulled on the stiffener.the cap cant allow slipping down. Im trying to find a good tree, or root in the right side, but it is an almost impossible mission.( if i find one, i will do the movie: Mission Impossible 5: Shadow of the root) .

DiscusBR
Im trying to figure out, how can i raise the frys in the showing tank. The puffer is really big, and the water conditions are nearly constant now.
The separeted frys are now 6 weeks old, and the biggest ones are around 3,8cm long (with tail fin). The average size is around 3,2cm.
Half of them are now colored eyes.
There is 4 small frys on Pair B on the video, but now 3 of them have been gone.

WGtaylor:
i really love it as well.


KisA

[damba]

I like a lot. Great set up.

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[Darrell Ward]

Pretty much impossible to raise fry in a community tank. You're lucky you didn't lose them all right away. Better to give the pair their own tank when they are spawning.

[KisA]

i dont think so.
As i know, these fish raised some frys up to 4cm+ in the community tank without any separation.when they lived Nandiscus tank..
But it is right, that this is really hard, and there is no chance to raise a big group.

KisA

[NanDiscus]

Darrell,

It's not only that other fish in the orgy tank didn't kill the babies, on the contrary, some (especially both members of pair 'B') went to the extent of 'kidnapping' fry off the backs of other pairs.
In a tank big enough I would assume you could raise up to 10-20% of a batch of eggs to babies you can separate and raise on (up to three weeks and beyond). While in my possession, the wilds spawned countless times with hugely varying results and I sometimes ended up with 5-10 babies in the tank that were raised with no nets up. I only removed them to cut down on the agression between the pair and the rest of the group.
The bottom line is: in a 100gal tank it's impossible, but in 500gal+...

Nandi