guggas
11-14-2017, 11:30 AM
I had planned to do this last year, but with moving and a job change I decided to delay it until now.
I finally got around to cleaning out my 120g tank and I'm currently in the doldrums of cycling. I've read quite a bit on this forum, but have not bought any discus yet. I'm thinking I will start with 6 4" discus bare bottom, but would eventually like to add in some wood, german blue rams, and tetras. I built the stand myself, its somewhat of a work in progress still though, it needs another coat of paint and some door knobs.
The art on the front is compliments of my 3 year old and Crayola. A couple of pics: 113219113220113221
The sump is pretty simple, its a 29g with poret foam, and i plan to add in a filter sock before I put fish in. Im wondering if a filter sock is a good solution, to keep the sump from getting filthy, or if I should try to put a prefilter in the overflow box somehow. Suggestions?
On the left side there is a Danner Mag 9.5 pump to assist getting water from my barrel to the sump. It will fill the 120g tank from empty in about 9 minutes.
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The barrel is in the garage.
I'm getting pretty anxious waiting for it to cycle, I've considered trying a bottle of Seachem Stability to see if it would speed it up. I know peoples experiance with that has ranged from: its a pointless waste of money to, It's a miracle. Is there any reason why I would not want to put that in my tank? I've also just considered buying fish and doing large water changes untill the cycle happens...
I finally got around to cleaning out my 120g tank and I'm currently in the doldrums of cycling. I've read quite a bit on this forum, but have not bought any discus yet. I'm thinking I will start with 6 4" discus bare bottom, but would eventually like to add in some wood, german blue rams, and tetras. I built the stand myself, its somewhat of a work in progress still though, it needs another coat of paint and some door knobs.
The art on the front is compliments of my 3 year old and Crayola. A couple of pics: 113219113220113221
The sump is pretty simple, its a 29g with poret foam, and i plan to add in a filter sock before I put fish in. Im wondering if a filter sock is a good solution, to keep the sump from getting filthy, or if I should try to put a prefilter in the overflow box somehow. Suggestions?
On the left side there is a Danner Mag 9.5 pump to assist getting water from my barrel to the sump. It will fill the 120g tank from empty in about 9 minutes.
113222
The barrel is in the garage.
I'm getting pretty anxious waiting for it to cycle, I've considered trying a bottle of Seachem Stability to see if it would speed it up. I know peoples experiance with that has ranged from: its a pointless waste of money to, It's a miracle. Is there any reason why I would not want to put that in my tank? I've also just considered buying fish and doing large water changes untill the cycle happens...