My Planted 100 Gallon Discus Setup

[chrisdoesntmiss]

True. Your better safe then sorry.

Indeed, I have in the past have had a 12 gram co2 cylinder rupture inside one of my rifles and it caused a huge amount of damage to the valves, basically had to strip entire thing and rebuild (was really a mess) so I would prefer something with 2kg of liquid CO2 to be nice and safe inside the lounge, I think I will buy one of the kits.

Safe and meeting insurance standards is always good.

Chris

 

[fish-aholic]

You could just buy the individual parts off of eBay. Cheaper and just as reliable.

 

[chrisdoesntmiss]

Yea i may do, i will browse and see what i can find.

Chris

 

[marcan]

Looking good so far. Keep the pics coming !

I can't wait to see your final setup.

 

[beechey]

hi chris just saw this thread its a good read

but not sure about the juli`s and the neons

 

[beechey]

ive tried quite a few different corys and ive found that serbi`s and aldof summat do best in temps of 30 deg

and the neons will be dinner for your discus

 

[chrisdoesntmiss]

The discus will be fine with the neons, they have been raised with them so will never see them as food. They are to well fed and interested in each other to be worried about such silly little fish, lol.

The corys I have always been a little skeptical about but, but I have been researching this setup for about 11 months so plenty of reading time and like everything in this hobby different details seem to be the most predomintant thing. I have seen some information saying 20-25, others 27-31. I bought these fish locally that has had them in 29 for a few weeks and there appetite hs not been affected, they are active and there digestive transit is crtainly working fine so I am not going to worry too much.

Chris

 

[fish-aholic]

11 months?!

 

[chrisdoesntmiss]

11 months?!

Well I wanted to do it right, plus i was not going to rush into it. There is an A4 pad of different stockings, landscapes, biotopes, temperature ranges for plants i wanted vs fish stocking etc. I have a lot of spare time.

Also i ordered the UPS tonight so that should be here tomorrow and i can wire that in.

I am going to be running a 15 watt external filter off a 50 watt heater set at 27 degrees and an 3 watt airpump on night timer.

The reason for a 50 watt heater is on a lower temperature is 2 fold, firstly the volume of water involved will take a long time to cool drastically so if it did drop below 27 the heater will kick in, if it does not drop to this level the heater will not function so the power will not be drained from the UPS. The air pump is almost ignoreable for the amount of power it will draw so that will be on a night timer anyway.

I want to eliminate the risk of the filter dying which is the reason for maximum power available for the filter to run and having priority rather than the heater.

This will probably change in the future when I upgrade the UPS (connect another battery) I will add the heater to be on at a slightly lower temperature so that both are not running constantly but if there was a power drop then they heater/airpump/filter will always be functioning.

Chris

 

[fish-aholic]

I understand why you would do so much research. Discus aren't east to keep fish. Still, I have only done 7 months or research. Sorry, but whats a UPS?

 

[chrisdoesntmiss]

Well i was also in the process of trying to buy a house so it got kinda backlogged. Discus are not actually that hard to keep. If you keep there conditions stable they are bloody easy.

Good food, good water, good tank and they are as easy as anything.

A UPS is an Uninterruptable Power Supply used for PC's so if the mains power is lost they will send a signal to the computer to shutdown without losing data. Not really expensive pieces of equipment really when you consider how much they will save you on restocking an aquarium full of dead discus. I paid £24 brand new, approx $50

Chris

It wasnt really the keeping of the discus that took the time, i have a good experience in that already, it was finding what i wanted, I hate to waste money so i planned thoroughly.

 

[charlie4486]

that cory looks like C. Trilineatus i got one thinking it was a julii too. maybe i'm wrong.

 

[chrisdoesntmiss]

I did make sure that they were no tri's when I bought them. The photo is not brilliant. I need to get some more taken and put them up.

Chris

Edit: They are tri's, got confused

 

[fish-aholic]

A UPS is an Uninterruptable Power Supply used for PC's so if the mains power is lost they will send a signal to the computer to shutdown without losing data.

I still don't understand what good this would do for an aquarium. The power will still go out and there is no data in your fish. Or does it warn you with some kind of alarm?

 

[lljdma06]

The discus will be fine with the neons, they have been raised with them so will never see them as food. They are to well fed and interested in each other to be worried about such silly little fish, lol.

The corys I have always been a little skeptical about but, but I have been researching this setup for about 11 months so plenty of reading time and like everything in this hobby different details seem to be the most predomintant thing. I have seen some information saying 20-25, others 27-31. I bought these fish locally that has had them in 29 for a few weeks and there appetite hs not been affected, they are active and there digestive transit is crtainly working fine so I am not going to worry too much.

Chris

The most popular corydora I've seen in discus tanks is C. sterbai, I guess because they do well in warmer water and they are a nice size. The orange pectoral fins is a plus too. A great fish, does very well in larger groups. Other corydoras that are said to do well include the following.

Corydoras amapaensis, Corydoras pinheiroi, Corydoras oiapoquensis, Corydoras leucomelas (this one is good up to 30°C), and Corydoras acutus

C. sterbai is probably going to be the one you'll encounter the most, though. The others might be tricky unless you went to a specialty website.

The "C. julii" you picked up isn't C. julii, but C. triliniatus. I've been browsing enough catfish sites to recognize the difference. They are often sold as C. julii, and are a nice little catfish in their own right. C. julii are quite rare in the trade. I've got a lone triliniatus that survived from a group of six. A hardy little bugger. Will probably setup a tank for the species in the near future.

llj