I like the blue faced Red Brown. It would be nice if the two paired up.
Your Altums are so beautiful they almost make me pee my pants.
Mama Bear
Wow Barb, your bb tank looks so lush. Nice tank and fish.
I also like the blue face brown discus. I envy people who can do healthy planted discus tanks. Very nice.
Patty
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If the discus are happy, I’m happy
I’m afraid of gravel too. I tried sand and I ended up tossing it too. I would do a background like yours for that lush look, but my tank is a room divider so that’s out. I just ordered some large pieces of manzanita wood from Burlworks and I’m pretty excited. I might attach a couple plants for aesthetics since it’s in my living room. I’ll post a pic when I get it in the tank.
Patty
If the discus are happy, I’m happy
I would never do gravel for juvenile or sub-adult discus; but, for the adults, it is not a problem.
I do 2-75% water changes weekly, vacuuming gravel well each time.
I have an 8 inch Blue Phantom that makes short work of any of the food that falls to the bottom of the tank as well.
The plants are helpful in taking up nutrients from water column as well.
This tank is in transition atm. It typically has just one pair of Stendker tefe's discus, the pleco, and some green neons and rummy nose tetras.
I am doing some planting in the 30 gallon that the Alenquer pair is normally housed- they will go back to this tank this weekend.
The Altums will get moved to the 180 when get a little more bulk on them.
its amazing to me how well Altums and discus get along with one another. The Altum juveniles follow the discus around ( they are so curious anyways) as if they are the same species.
At night, when the lights go off, they all huddle together among the discus.
A symbiotic relationship? Maybe.
This is the 30 gallon that the Alenquer pair is in:
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Red and blue heckel x
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Beautiful @Warblad79 ! Both of them. Did you get fry from this pair?
I just ordered a 6 inch Heckel Cross from Kenny's last shipment. I was hoping to breed it with one of my F1 Alenquers.
I am in Elk Grove, Ca, and make trips to San Francisco 3x weekly. If you ever get some fry and want to sell them, I would gladly pay to get some fry from those two.
RE: Warblad79
Gorgeous! Love that roundness!
What a gorgeous tank! I would love a tank like that and I do 80% every other day with sand, wood and cories and they still got sick. I’ve been scared to try it again. Your fish look so healthy and happy. I’m jealous that I have to settle for healthy.
You’ve got it all. Very impressive!
Patty
If the discus are happy, I’m happy
Here are a few pics from one of my tanks......love them all, but the Red Eagles are still the one if I had to choose.
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