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Well after a little more than a week in their new digs they seem to be settled in quite well. They look so nice in the new tank I wish I could have it out on display rather than cramped in my little fish room on cinder blocks.
I'll have to shoot a pic of the room one of these days. One of the neat things is there's no background on my 300 gallon display so you can sit at the bar and look through the display at the contest tank directly behind it. It looks very cool, and it makes the contest fish look absolutely enormous!
I've reduced the amount of feedings to 6 times per day, seafood/beefheart mix in the morning, 4 autofeedings of tetra color bits and ON prime reef flake and FBW in the eve's. Cleaning the tank is a little more cumbersome. The auto water change does 50% daily, I siphon out the bottom every other day and wipe all of the surfaces once a week.
I don't have any signs of spawing like some of the other contestants so I'm gonna start pouring through the breeding section to see what I can do to spur them on. One of my new goals is to get a breeding pair out of this group and in the future see if I can get a pair between the albinos and my snakeskins.
Here are the specifics of the new setup.
90 gallon bb with potted plants.
Jebo canister filter and a magnum 350
2x 28 watts T5 lights. (I think that's right)
2x 300 watt heaters
50% water change daily
PH 6.9
GH 12 ppm
TDS 10
Nitrates 5ppm
Nitrites 0
Ammonia 0
I'm extremely grateful to all the folks out there at SD for the opportunity to learn so much about discus husbandry and again thanks to Al and Kenny for providing us this contest.
I'll have to shoot a pic of the room one of these days. One of the neat things is there's no background on my 300 gallon display so you can sit at the bar and look through the display at the contest tank directly behind it. It looks very cool, and it makes the contest fish look absolutely enormous!I've reduced the amount of feedings to 6 times per day, seafood/beefheart mix in the morning, 4 autofeedings of tetra color bits and ON prime reef flake and FBW in the eve's. Cleaning the tank is a little more cumbersome. The auto water change does 50% daily, I siphon out the bottom every other day and wipe all of the surfaces once a week.
I don't have any signs of spawing like some of the other contestants so I'm gonna start pouring through the breeding section to see what I can do to spur them on. One of my new goals is to get a breeding pair out of this group and in the future see if I can get a pair between the albinos and my snakeskins.
Here are the specifics of the new setup.
90 gallon bb with potted plants.
Jebo canister filter and a magnum 350
2x 28 watts T5 lights. (I think that's right)
2x 300 watt heaters
50% water change daily
PH 6.9
GH 12 ppm
TDS 10
Nitrates 5ppm
Nitrites 0
Ammonia 0
I'm extremely grateful to all the folks out there at SD for the opportunity to learn so much about discus husbandry and again thanks to Al and Kenny for providing us this contest.
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