Hi From the Blue Mountains!

[Marrs7]

Hi!

I have recently been drawn into the world of freshwater tropical fish. My husband and I are in the process of getting a custom made tank and stand (yep were picky about what kind of tank we want :P )

We have fallen in love with Discus :D

Can anyone recomend somone/where that we can get beautiful, healthy Discus within the Sydney region? Were looking at getting them quite young, as not only do we not have tons of money to spend on adult discus, we would also like to be able to watch our babies grow :D

[flukes]

Mel,

First off welcome to the forum. Your lucky too be in Sydney as you can go see the team at SLS. Not only do they stock all quality and healthy fish but they know what they are doing.

Before you get going make sure you ask all the questions you need, there is a world of information out there for you. All you need is too ask.

Also before you buy your fish go down too SLS and check out what they have. This way you can work out what you want and how too go about it.

Anyway most of all welcome and enjoy....

Cheers
Scott

[nicklee88]

hey welcome to DF.com

[Marrs7]

Where can I find out some info about SLS?

[happydiscus]

kev should be posting in this forum soon so he will answer any questions u have about SLS but u can also find about the store throught the forum

[happydiscus]

http://www.discusforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41 look at this topic for more info

[Marrs7]

thanks :D

[Proteus]

Greeting Melissah and welcome to DF.com

SLS is a great place to have a look around, or even drop into a Discus Association meeting at Parramatta, details are in here somewhere... they usually have fish for sale at the meetings.

[Merrilyn]

Welcome Melissa, beautiful part of the country you come from. Glad to have another female on board. We seem to be in the minority. Yes I would also suggest you go to SLS and see Kev or George. Nice people and good quality fish. They will put on the right track :wink:

[Marrs7]

Hi Merrilyn,

Are you in Frankston Vic? I lived there (and sourounding areas) for a few years as a kid :)

Yep were definately heading down to SLS sometime soon. My second bubba is due in 7 days, so might have to wait a little bit till were up for the trip to Sydney ;)

[Merrilyn]

Congratulations Melissah, that's wonderful news. When my babies (human) were tiny and fussing, I used to park the pram in front of the tank and let them watch the discus. Worked like a charm every time. Asleep in minutes. Now they are all over 25 and hate me telling that story :lol:

[Marrs7]

LOL I bet.

My 2 yr old boy loves fish. They are one of his fav things at the moment. We recently became interested in fish becuase he got a freshwater tropical set up for his birthday, with a beautiful Angel fish, along with some other little guys.

So its a family affair! :D

[happydiscus]

i think i read sumwhere that if u keep angel fish and discus the angels could "introduce a latent disease such as cappillaria" if u plan on keeping angels the with the discus make sure the angels r in good health..

just a precaution

[Marrs7]

Nah, wont be mixing the Angel with the Discus.

We plan on having a few tanks, with different set ups. We would like to have "Our" Discus tank - the big mumma tank :P -

Then I plan to have an Angel tank, and I think my husband wants to do an Aust native tank.

[happydiscus]

so where u getting ur tank from

[kalebjarrod]

Welcome to the land of Plates

glad to see anthoer freindly face to chat about Discus allday and allnight, literally :wink:

[Marrs7]

Were looking into getting it custom made. We havent had a chance to speak with the people we know who would be able to do it, to find out if they could do it or not. We would like a tank thats higher and wider than average thats about 5-6ft.

Getting the cabinet made is the easy part, as we have a friend who does that kind of thing for a living.

[happydiscus]

my dad is also rather picky about aquariums and their stands we've been looking for the perfect tanlk for quite a while now but popping down to Df's sponsors in taren point to cheak sum of their stands tommorow

[Marrs7]

We would love it to have a bay window too. But will have to see about that bit lol

[weird]

You won't be disappointed by xtreme aquariums ! They deliver too !

[Marrs7]

Do they have a website? Ive tried clicking on their advert at the top of the page, but it tells me the web page doesnt exist...........

Tried putting in the addy incase it was a broken link, but no such luck..

[kevkoi]

Sorry... the website is currently being designed by Yahoo and it's taking them a while.... :?

SLS address is: 632, Anzac Pde, Kingsford NSW 2032 (Crn of Botany St)
tel: 93155288

We're open 7days. Weekends are very busy so if you can make it over during weekdays, we can spend more time on a yarn with you about discus.

Drop in when u come down to Sydney... There are at least 300+ discus at SLS on display at any one time. (Trust me, whe there are 300 fish left, I make another order... :lol: )

We have discus for beginners starting from $29 to show quality discus, and everything in between. If we don't have it, I'll find it for you... :wink: :lol:

[Proteus]

ummm, Kev, what are you talking about, being designed by Yahoo???

geesh, no love anymore

[Marrs7]

Sounds fantastic! Cant wait to come down to the shop.

Tell you want, Im glad I found this site, otherwise we would have gone thru a pet store, who had like oh... 10 to choose from :lol

I feel alot better about getting good quality advise and good quality discus :D

[happydiscus]

thats what this forum is here for

[Merrilyn]

Melissah, don't forget to post pics. We love to see lots and lots of pics.

[Marrs7]

Oh dont worry about that, Ill be posting lots of pics :lol

[Proteus]

we like pics

:wink:

[kalebjarrod]

Melissah,

don'e forget the pics........ PLEASE

(the other nuts get MAD if you don't)

and now you have posted everyone has your address LOL

[Marrs7]

Ahahah!

[Annie]

Melissah

Great to have you here! Welcome!