Setting up my new 9 by 2.5 by 2.5 Discus tank

[Livingfish78]

Hi everyone,

I thought I would share some pics of my new 9 foot tank.

I have used 6 foot vertex illumina led light, dupla ph controller, tunze ro and top up. 2 ehiem 2080

Wild blues
Wild browns
Wild greens
albino reds
albino yellows
spotted leopard
butterflies
san merah
yellow melons
heckles

red cuperias

rummy nose tetras
black tetra

[Livingfish78]

More pics attached

[Livingfish78]

Hi here you go

[Livingfish78]

I hope you enjoy them

[Livingfish78]

Here are more pics for your viewing

[Livingfish78]

Discus pictures.. Enjoy

[Livingfish78]

Love my discus

[Livingfish78]

I hope you like what you see

[Livingfish78]

Still more pics of the set up

[Livingfish78]

sorry if you dont like them

[Merrilyn]

Fantastic photos Livingfish. You'll love your new tank. I loved my 9 foot tank. Huge amount of work to maintain it, but, wow, the fish loved it. We need to see lots and lots more photos.

[sanoptic]

I would love to have the space for an Aquarium like yours, the pics are great & your fish...wow!!
Will give you lots of pleasure for many many years...

[Mattzilla]

pretty awesome looking setup and your discus are beautiful too

[ILLUSN]

Love your work!
you have some stunning fish in that tank, those wilds really make the pigions look odd LOL, and that rose red is one of the best I've seen in a long time. Makes me really miss my old pair.

[scott bowler]

wow that is a awesome tank , I would love to have some thing that big too

[Livingfish78]

Here are few more additions.

Wild greens
Heckles
Wild royal blue

[Merrilyn]

Loving it. Keep the photos coming :)

[mattgoanna]

That is one very nice tank and your wild fish are spectacular. I would get rid of all the non wild stuff and include 1-2 mm of very fine river sand. If you have corydorus they will keep the sand clean.

[Livingfish78]

some more pics

[Livingfish78]

I hope you like

[Livingfish78]

love my discus.

[Livingfish78]

My discus are on a diet of Beefheart, Frozen Bloodworm, brine shrimp and dried freezed blackworms

[Roy]

Wow!
They look great, love a big tank.

[Mattzilla]

droooooooool

[Benno]

Best tank ive ever seen.

[Livingfish78]

Hi there.

Here a couple of pics taken today from my I phone.

[Mavzta]

Wow man! That is insane. Love your wild blues. How many discus have you got in there? Did you wipe you lfs out??

[Livingfish78]

HI mate.


I have around 35 in there...I get my discus from SONLE in melbourne and wild through AI.....

[Mavzta]

Sonle? Where is that? Or who is that? I'm in Melbourne too.

[mattgoanna]

He is a discus dealer in Braybrook. He does not have a shop and sells from his home. He will advertise on gumtree when he gets a shipment in.

[Mavzta]

Oh ok I think I've seen his ad on gumtree actually.

[Livingfish78]

Hi there.

Here are some pics of some of my albinos that I have currently

[Mavzta]

Very nice. I like the one in the background also. Is I a white swan?

[Nathan]

hey mate i know its kind of a personal question and of course dont answer if you dont want but how much money have you put into this setup? including live stock? its absolutely incredible man i love it, should be proud

[discwillow]

Hey congratulations on the great tank and even better Discus. Quick questions how do you keep your plants so clean and free from algae....BTW keep the photos coming....Thanks

[Livingfish78]

HI Nathan.

$$$$ a little bit ..lol.

[Livingfish78]

Hi everyone,

Tank is going along very well but I think i have way too many in the tank..Have to downsize some them ..

Here are the 4 new additions that I have added this week.

4 Red Rafflesia 14/15cm

[Livingfish78]

hope you like them as much as I do.

[Mavzta]

hope you like them as much as I do.

Very nice! From Sonle?

[Nathan]

I'd be happy to take some off your hands :)

[Livingfish78]

I hope you like them

[discwillow]

I hope you like them

Its disappointing that you don't want to answer ALL members questions. I have found it difficult to keep anubias etc free of hard brown algae but you seem to do it with ease. Just after a couple of tips thats all..thanks

[Livingfish78]

dont be dissapointed ....Just pretty busy and limited for time... I have a massive UV conected to the filters. I run three 2080 filters. I do 2 water changes a week. I trim the plants once a week and get rid of any that are growing algae and then I wipe the leaves for the algae.

I also use algaecide...I also have darwin algae shrimp, L plecos and peppys.

hope I was able to help.

[discwillow]

dont be dissapointed ....Just pretty busy and limited for time... I have a massive UV conected to the filters. I run three 2080 filters. I do 2 water changes a week. I trim the plants once a week and get rid of any that are growing algae and then I wipe the leaves for the algae.

I also use algaecide...I also have darwin algae shrimp, L plecos and peppys.

hope I was able to help.

Thanks heaps for that ...as I suspected its total war against the algae. I didn't see the third 2080 and uv in your photos? your tank is inspirational..all the best

[Nathan]

With your water changes how much do you change each Time? Do you use r/o Water?

[discusking]

example of a top fancier

[Hooked]

Looking absolutely fantastic! : )

[shakadog]

That is one fantastic tank. I'm just setting up a tank at present of similar dimensions so a couple of questions if you can assist,

- what ph, KH and gh do you have
- what discus types have you mixed, ie looks like Wilds and Asian from the above posts
- any issues at all with that as some say you can't mix the three streams of Asian, german and wild
- do you add any mineral supplements with the RO water
- what temperature are you running the tank at

I've currently set mine up at,
Ph 6.2 to 6.7, that's the movement difference from when the co2 is on and off
I add some alkaline powder from seachem and equilibrium from seachem to get gh to 4 or 5 and KH to 2 or 3 which buffers the ph to the above
If I don't add KH my ph goes down to 5 and moves an awful lot

I'm putting first fish in today being, Royal Whiptails, SAEs and Ottos, all to make sure it's fully cycled and I keep any algae under control.

As for discus im leaning towards Wild Discus and Wild Altum Angels but not 100% on whether that is a good combination.