Thanks for the compliments guys
I better show my ego my bank balance before it explodes!
how do you do the floating plants? do you find that food gets stuck in them? Does enough light get through to the other plants??
The floating plants are Salvinia Auriculata I think, they provide cover for the Discus and apistos. They do catch food sometimes, but I feed sinking pellets and frozen foods that dont stay on the surface for long anyway. They grow very quickly which can mean less light for the other plants so I take out some every week for the pond.
It also makes taking photos very difficult too! (lack of light)
I have a spraybar at the back of the tank that provides a gentle current over the water surface to push the floaters to the front of the tank, this means that the plants at the back get enough light.
how many gallons is your Discus tank? and your Rams get along fine with them? I was planing on having a combination of the two in my new 55 gallon long. Any suggestions?
The tank is 47 US Gallons, I intend to either get a larger tank (gentle persuasion to the 'planning department' of our house allowing!) or keeping a single adult pair when they mature, hopefully breeding them too.
The rams do great with the Discus, the Bolivian ones are quite hardy, so I dont have to worry about them too much. I wouldn't put Blue Rams in with them unless they were adult, very high quality fish. Most rams available are just too weak, so having to treat them in the same tank as Discus when the Discus are not sick just isnt an option. Better to keep the Discus by themselves if you are just starting out with them.
For a 55G, you are just borderline (like me) for a group of six young 3" Discus, or a pair of mature Discus, the older ones would probably be a better idea unless you intend binging some discus back in the future when they get larger or getting a bigger tank.
Here's a fish I missed before, a male Apisto hongsloi:
Good luck in the contest. 
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