discus tank 100x60x60cm 360ltr

[Wouter van Wielink]

hello I'm new here so thought I start a post of my recently started discus tank.

tank: 100x60x60 360ltr
pressurized CO2 with milwaukee controller
Aqua Medic 150watt MH fixture 5200K bulb
Sera 1400 canister filter with UV
eheim 2080 filter with DIY CO2 reactor, double inlet + DIY double outlet
Dennerle deponit substrate with Ferka tabs for echino's

plants:

rotala rotundifolia
Anternathera rosefolia
valisneria
lots of Echinodorus
java moss on wood (waiting on java fern and anubias nana for wood)


greets from Holland

[Yassmeena]

Nice!!!

That CO2 does the trick every time!

[Wouter van Wielink]

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[Wouter van Wielink]

Nice!!!

That CO2 does the trick every time!

Yes actually went without the first three weeks, but after installing palnts grew like creazy.

had some difficulty's maintaining the 6.8PH though with the standard JBL Cyclone, so made my own. Tomorrow wil post some pics of build.

[Wouter van Wielink]

some pictures of my DIY tank stand.

Used MDF and veneerd it with American Cherry.


fourth picture is of initial setup with large piece of wood, but with my single MH I was not able to supply all my plants of sufficient light.

[gotfish?]

nice tank :) where did you get your MH? are your adding another one??

[Wouter van Wielink]

nice tank :) where did you get your MH? are your adding another one??

Thanx gotfish!
Got both my fixture and my bulb at www.aquariaveldhuis.nl it's a dutch site.

I actually ordered a Giessemann Megachroma Tropic, still waiting though.

I want to add 2 T5 HO fixtures, on the front and back :)


Wouter

[thebigone]

Nice setup you got there.

[waters10]

Nice tank! How long did it take your java moss to attach to the driftwood?

Looking at your moss, I can see I really need to trim mine! :p

[Wouter van Wielink]

nice tank :) where did you get your MH? are your adding another one??

Bought my fixture on the web, I ordered my bulb at a website of a dutch fishstore. I actually ordered a Giessemann megachrome tropic but they messed it up, still waiting on the giesseman though.

I am planning on adding two T5 HO bulbs front and back, front for colour of fish an back for plants.

Wouter

[Wouter van Wielink]

Nice tank! How long did it take your java moss to attach to the driftwood?

Looking at your moss, I can see I really need to trim mine! :p

thanx!

Well... at the picture the moss was in the tank 3 hours :)
I ordered the moss on the internet and they delivered a complete mat of moss.

I wrapped it around the wood an tied it down with really thin fishingline (0.06mm) barely visible with the naked eye, pain in the *** to tie down hahah

endresult is pretty nice. Moss is really pearling o2 in the late afternoon!

Wouter

[calihawker]

Very nice!
I like the width and height proportions. So much easier to aquascape. Great job:D


Steve

[mackinboi]

nice tank!

[Wouter van Wielink]

Here some pictures of my DIY co2 reactor, controlled with the Milwaukee sms.

[Wouter van Wielink]

some updates

[Wouter van Wielink]

HQI only

[discusluvr818]

some updates

Beautiful tank, thanks for sharing!! More pics of the discus perhaps? :D

[Dutch dude]

Hallo Wouter,

Welkom op Simply Discus en leuk om hier nog een Nederlander te zien. :)

Welcome at SD. I like your tank very much and you did a great job on the aqua scape and also on building your own stand. :thumbsup: I bought 3 tanks at Velthuis my selves and also build stands and hoods for it. I'm also a big fan of Echinodorus,...realy wonderful plants and not to dificult. Dough I found them hard to grow at the high temps and lots of large water changes.

Maybe you can tell us more abouth the discus / stock list as well. I see you have some youngsters in there. How do you keep the tank and plants clean with the heavy feedings for the youngsters?

Ruurd (Veenwouden Friesland)

[Eddie]

Very nice planted tank.

All the best

Eddie

[Wahter]

some updates

That looks very much like the 'Dutch' style. :) Very different from the Japanese/ Asian style of aquascaping, but looks very nice.



Walter

[Ben75]

Looking good. Keep up the good work,
Intersting diy co2 reactor.
Regards,

[Dutch dude]

Walter,.....it is Dutch style aquascaping and easy to detect on the structure. Dutch style uses clusters of plants and several clusters will have a diferent color or a diferent plant structure. Besides that Wouter is from Holland so it is always a Dutch aquascape :D

[Wouter van Wielink]

Thank you all for the compilments!!

I really like the clusters of plants, though i am a big fan of the japanese style.

I try'd the japanese style but i always end up with the ol' dutchy :)


I am currently building a tank of plywood. size 135x70x75cm (sorry for the metric system) 700 liters

Will keep you updated

[pcsb23]

This is a really nice aquascape. Thanks for sharing.