Wild Discus Tech Notes 3... Solid Browns and Blues...The basics and More....

[Las Vegas]

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Oh what happened to this thread? A whole year went by... sad

[sal3011]

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Wish Indian Rivers had discus too..! Nice fish Btw!

[Schatz]

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Nice fish!

[Len]

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Thanks. They've been very contrary since Christmas though, laying almost every 4 -5 days and eating the eggs as soon as they start to wiggle

[DLFL]

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Wonderful fish!

[Len]

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The tank is a 77 Gal drilled with the overflow plumbed to a 33 Gal fluid bed filter. Return pump is a mag drive 9.5 that is plumbed back to the tank and split to two and connects to adjustable nozzles that are fit into bulkheads near the top of the tank. Substrate is just pool filter sand and a few pieces of manzanita branches. 500W heater in the fluid bed filter is controlled by an Apex controller that also controls the lighting and monitors ph. If I had to do it again, I'd reconsider the fluid bed though. It does an excellent job, but it's a bit noisy. A sump would be much quieter.

[rdo_l]

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Hi lens!

Amazing movie that u posted in june 17, i am planning an aqua with this kind of setup!

Would you mind in inform which is it?

Tks!

[DiscusBR]

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wow ... WOW! Beautiful!

[fattubwhale]

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They are gorgeous looking!!!

[Len]

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Thought I'd post an update. It's almost 3 months since I got them. One looks pretty beat up after he decided to jump into the overflow. After a got him out another decided to try it and sadly didn't survive.

[Len]

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One week update on the wild blues

[Len]

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Very Nice! their checking out their new pad! good luck with them.

Thanks. I sure hope they like it. I redid it especially for them and it was a lot more work than I thought it was going to be. I drilled my 77 and plumbed it to a 33 gal fluid bed filter, after making a taller stand to give me room to work underneath and threw together a canopy with an LED strip. After many delays, snags and frustration I was about ready to give up and get the canisters back out, but I'm glad I didn't

Lots of nice red on those blues and very cool they are already eating.

I was pretty surprised they ate so easily. When I stand in front of the tank they gather like a flock of birds looking for food. I'm anxious to see what the red colours develop into after I've had them for awhile. I'll post some updated pics in a few weeks.

[Second Hand Pat]

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Lots of nice red on those blues and very cool they are already eating.

[jimg]

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Very Nice! their checking out their new pad! good luck with them.

[Len]

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Got 10 new Wild Blues today. They seemed to settle in quickly and were gobbling red wigglers about an hour later. They also attacked some beef heart mix a little later. Water looks messy in the video, but they had just been fed the BH mix.