I’m devastated and miss them already

[pablos]

Due to unforeseen events I will be leaving Middle East and unfortunately there is no way to take my discus. I have to leave behind my discus tanks :(( I’m really desperate about it. I see some stories there, but still don’t know you guys handle it.

Anyway I want to thank all of you for support and sharing your great experience is over last few years!


I will miss them :( every single one our of my 20+6 crew

I have some separated threads about both my discus tanks, but here collection of my best photos
https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0dGrq0zwuGWsWl

[jeep]

Good luck and come back when you can!!

[Iminit]

What the time frame? Are you moving back to the states? Are you looking for shipping licenses? Or are you just not allowed to take them?

[pablos]

I would love to take all the discus with me, but it’s close to impossible to have export approval.

[GeauxDiscus]

What are you going to do with your discus? Is someone going to take them for you?

[pablos]

What are you going to do with your discus? Is someone going to take them for you?

Luckily I have found a trusted discus keeper, so I hope they will be fine there

[pitdogg2]

Beautiful fish, I know the feeling you're feeling. Due to unforeseen circumstances I had to give up mine several years ago. IT SUCKS! I miss the daily fishroom routine everyday. One day again I'll have another fishroom and more Discus and large bruiser cichlids.

[Willie]

I can commiserate. We now spend much of the summer in the west. It's nice out here, but I miss the 1.5 - 2 hours in my fish room every morning. I have auto feeders going and an expert discus person checking my fishroom on a regular basis. Still, I'm looking forward to going back around Labor Day.

[pablos]

I couldn’t have an empty room .. no tank no fish, so I’m back :)
133693

Stand, Sump and tank are ready. I need to set up everything together. I have already made few improvement comparing to my previous setup (like rolling matte instead of socks in a sump).

[pablos]

everything is ready and waiting for a new habitants 134067

[brewmaster15]

Welcome back! looking forward to seeing what you stock it with!

al

[jeep]

That's going to be a nice setup!

[pablos]

That's going to be a nice setup!

thanks .. I took a lessons from the previous setups. E.g. in the previous one I was very limited to number (and type of plants) which can grow in the pure sand. Here I did created an island with a proper substrate. Hope it would stimulate plants growth.
Still I wanted to have a big swim area with sand, so discus could find by their 'puffing' a food in sand.

[Iminit]

Great to see you back! Like everyone else now waiting to see what you put in it! Looks like a lot of anubias and Java fern in there.

[pablos]

Yes … plenty of anubias and Java. On top of regular nana or barteri I found also Anubias heterophylla and hastifolia, which is a way bigger than barteri and should be a nice background. I have also a cute a. gracilis variant with a different shape of leaves. On top there are quite a few variants of Echinodorus from smaller types like grass (tenellus), bigger magdalensis some marbel queen to big amazon swords (bleheri) and amazonicus. Lastly few lotos, as I loved who they shoot aerial leaves.

It would be a little bit an experiment to see which types will survive high temperatures and what would be a sweet spot of nutrients.

So far looks like plants are doing ok and producing a lot of oxygen… I saw oxygen steam in fast growing plants, but today anubias surprised me with that …134072

BTW I would need to change a topic from “devastated” to “exited” about a new tank ;)

[pablos]

Finally, I got them. I went with 11 Weissflog each around 5".
I will shoot some better pictures when they get use to a new tank 134295

[Iminit]

Congrats!! Great looking discus! And tank

[LizStreithorst]

I agree with Tom. The Discus are excellent quality. Along with the beautiful aquascape and school of dithers make for the perfect picture.

[coenone]

Awsome