Newbie saying hello

[MartF]

Hi All,

I've been keeping tropicals and marines including breeding Seahorses on and off for about 40 years. Don't have any marines now though.

I've set up a nice heavily planted tropical tank with Co2 injection this year stocked with mainly Tetras and a pair of Rams but it's only 96ltrs.

Looking at moving soon and when we do I'm allowed a much larger tank, thinking of around 240ltrs or maybe even a little bigger.

The plan then is start with Discus - they have to be the most gorgeous fish ever! I've never had discus before so this will be a new venture and I expect I'll be asking lots of questions.

Been reading up and I think the first problem I'm likely to encounter is the VERY hard water we have here in Lincolnshire, it's been described as 'liquid rock'!

Thanks.

Martin.

[Hooked]

Hi Martin,

Welcome mate! Your in the right place for getting your Discus questions answered. They are a good crew here. All the best with the move... never much fun moving, but you do have the new set up to look forward to.

Cheers

[Ghoti]

Tank looks great. Will you be going planted our baste bottom for your discus tank?

Welcome!

Cheers,
Scott

[MartF]

Hi,

Think the move will be a little way off yet, but in the meantime I've just picked up a 190lte to upgrade my current tank. Hoping to get a 350 or even 450ltr when we eventually move.

I was hoping to continue with a planted tank as I think it looks more natural, but then again I know very little about Discus at the moment except they need soft water and ours is very hard! What do you think is the hardest I could get away with - not too worried about breeding them.

No doubt it will mean RO water. We'll see, like I say it could be a little while yet.