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Well, this is what my tank has evolved into over time:     It has been a bumpy road but everything's smoothing out.  I've done some filtration upgrades and tank redecoration.  My discus are stable and mellow :)  But I think now that it seems to be under control I need to get more!

I haven't posted here in ages, just updating real quick, I am coming up on a year with my first discus, purchased as a juvvenile, and now a gorgeous, large blue circle in my tank.  Lost a few, added a few, my discus are now showing signs of pairing up!  Woo hoo!  Hurray for water changes!! They...

Love the lush planting in your tank.  And gratz on the new additions!  A shoal of schooling fish is beautiful - great call on adding more tetras, they're so much more fun to watch in larger groups

Aww thanks Asteria :)  My discus are all doing great now.  The key to raising juvenile discus is lots of food and lots of water changes. I've read that once they're adults the tank will require less maintenance.   Well, so we've both been through the bumpy parts, and we're both still in the...

Hey, check out Peri now:     And a few other shots:    

Just an update.  I've upped my water changes to 50% daily.  Had to go out and get a 55 gal trash barrel to do this.  And I'm feeding my discus like the carnivorous pigs that they are.  Will post pics in a week or two - there should be a noticeable difference in my tank since the last pics were...

I know this post is old, but maybe you're still out there wrighty8529 and Vin Swords.  I want to know more about "worming" my fish.  Does it often go unnoticed or undiagnosed when a fish needs to be wormed?

Toothless, how are your discus doing?  I also have some discus, and my progress is slow but steady.

Marc Weiss is the name of the guy who I watched.  This is the link to it if anyone is interested:     However, its a long interview format, bouncing back and forth during the whole interview between Marc talking about his history, and showing him step-by-step making his own discus food.   Also...

No I didn't rearrange anything in the tank.  I've read that that helps, but tbh, I don't want to create the mess in my tank.  Thanks for the suggestion - if my discus don't settle down enough I suppose I'll eventually have to try that.  But I *really* hope it doesn't come down to that.   On an...

Elmo I sympathize with your anxiety over your stressed out discus.  I can't offer any advice as hi-tech is over my head, but I can wish you luck.  Good luck! I can't resist.  I recommend you ditch the CO2 bubbler and just use Flourish Excel.

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Love your tank and the pics!  Thanks for sharing, I enjoy reading your journal.

I don't really mean that last thing I said.  I will never give up on my discus.  But I feel like jamming a pencil into my eye when I see them being miserable and angry, instead of sedate and content.

So, I've made some major changes lately.  I recently purchased several anubias, tied them to some driftwood, and I also dropped a few water lettuce into the tank.  I've also started using Flourish Excel.  That was about a week ago, and I already see a difference in all my plants.  And I've also...

Hi Addey411.  Just wondering how your tank is getting along.  When I started mine, I was all over it for about 6 months, then my water changes dropped to about 1 every 2 weeks, and I kept my tank on low maintenance.  Now I am back into iut full bore, and have made a few changes to the way I do...

Well I just picked up 2 bristlenose and 1 rubbermouth pleco, hoping to make a dent in my algae.  I hate scraping it off the walls of my tank because then i get alot of floating algae junk which takes a while to get sucked up into the filters, and i cant help but think some pieces are getting...

I've gotten the nitrate level down to about 20 ppm.  Is it just me, or is it really hard to distinguish between the colors in the API nitrate color card?  I don't see any difference in the colors showing 10 and 20 ppm.  Nor can I see a difference in the colors that indicate 40 and 80 ppm on the...

Thanks Ninja.  I know you know what you're talking about, and I trust your advcice.  And I want to ask you - what would you recommend as a maximum nitrate level?  Should it be reading only traces, or is 20 or 40 ppm acceptable?

Yea well I have a pH test kit I used back when I tried to force the pH into a level I wanted.  That didn't work out so good.  So now I basically ignore it, and just acclimate any new fish to the tank very slowly with a dripline.  I'm not gonna wrestle with the pH.   The nitrates, on the other...

I think your nano tank is charming.  Makes me want to start one, but all i have is a regular old 10-gallon tank, nothing like the nicely equipped new setup you have.  Still, i am inspired...

Yea, I think thats exactly what i'm saying.  I guess that's a big 'oops' for me. I gues i know what i'm doing tomorrow morning...gonna get me a nitrate test kit!  I wonder what it'll read...

Very true akainechu, thank your for the encouragement.  I have a general question for the veterans out there.  I use a simple API brand "Ammonia NH3/NH4+" test kit.  I assume this means I can't tell what the nitrate level is, even if the test kit is registering 0ppm on the color chart. My...

I am an idiot, but my tank is at least respectably clean, with several live plants that are doing better.   I lost 4 of my 6 discus since March.  They just died off 1 by 1 until about a month ago.  The only 2 I have left are the first 2 I got.  This leaves my tank with:   2 discus 1 angel 1...

Wow - MUCH much nicer look with the driftwood and live plants, and white sand.  It's beautiful.  Tanks have a way of evolving...

Not sure what to say, it's all been said.  Unbelievably cool operation you got there.  I am in awe.

haHA!  This thread is mine !  But for how long?....

Just got back from lfs.  I gave them 3 of my 4 clowns.  I couldn't catch the last one, he's too wily.  I hope they go to a good home.  The poor things loved it in my tank, and I got rid of them.   I am sad.

Wow Ninjouzata, I can already tell that your tank will be breathtaking.  You've put alot of thought and effort into this already, and it really shows.  If I had read this thread prior to doing my own tank things would have been much different.  Really beutiful choice of decoration, from the...

I was just rummaging around in the forums for something interesting to read, and stumbled on this thread.  silurian, i tip my hat, yours is a beautiful and creative tank.  The stars in the background are a nice touch.  I have to agree with you though on the palm trees - nice, but their scale...

Thank you, Xzavier247 for your encouragement and advice.  The yellow-ribbon plant is not truly an aquatic plant, as both you and I believe Ninjouzata have pointed out.  It is a type of dracena that can grow in an aquatic environment, and supposedly will eventually grow and climb right out of the...

Will do - in fact i just tested and my test kit is still telling me 0ppm on ammonia.  I have one of those simpler test kits that doesn't give readings for ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates - it just tests for ammonia.  The light is fixed and producing more light than i even need.  Here's a pic of...