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[Crane111]

Hi, I hope all who are on this great Forum are well, I am new to this it’s my first time having a fish Aquarium so I am looking for some Advice, I have a Jewel 190ltr Corner fish Aquarium which I have just bought along with the sand different types rocks slate and bonsi tree also beautiful fan shape wood, now I’m not sure what plants to have if any what best fish to have as love colour not fighting fish also cleaning fish etc for tank bottom how many fish to put in at time, are Discus fish ok.
any feed back would be very much appreciated
kind Regards
Paul

 

[Essjay]

Hi, welcome to the forum

Discus need a bigger tank than this, I'm afraid.
Corner tanks need to be stocked as if they were smaller than their actual volume because the shape limits the swimming length for fish.

The first thing is to find out your water hardness. The majority of Scotland has soft water though there are a few places with harder water. Your water company should have your hardness on their website, though if it's Scottish Water it can be tricky to find (let us know if that's your water company and we'll tell you where to find it).

Once we know that you do have soft water, we'll be able to suggest fish and plants.

 

[Crane111]

Thank you very much for your reply very much appreciate, i wasn’t even told that when got the tank etc, so I will get on to that tomorrow hopefully get reply once I know i will let you know, I’ve just been told Scottish water get here. Also regarding Discus fish thank you for letting me know the information about them and what plants to I can get, I will get back once know cheers
kind regards

 

[emeraldking]

A 190 liter tank for a novice aquarist sounds already ambitious... Feel welcome to this forum...

 

[Crane111]

A 190 liter tank for a novice aquarist sounds already ambitious... Feel welcome to this forum...

Thank you I was always told if you going to go for it go big so I did and what beautiful tank I’ve just but in me rocks in etc looks beautiful just need to add we bit more sand and then water, do all me bits bobs prior to putting in fish, take care and thank you

 

[Crane111]

Hi, welcome to the forum

Discus need a bigger tank than this, I'm afraid.
Corner tanks need to be stocked as if they were smaller than their actual volume because the shape limits the swimming length for fish.

The first thing is to find out your water hardness. The majority of Scotland has soft water though there are a few places with harder water. Your water company should have your hardness on their website, though if it's Scottish Water it can be tricky to find (let us know if that's your water company and we'll tell you where to find it).

Once we know that you do have soft water, we'll be able to suggest fish and plants.

Good morning HOPE YOU ARE WELL AND HAD GOOD WEEKEND WETHER PERMITTING

HERE IS WHAT I HAVE REGARDING THE WATER WHERE I LIVE IN SCOTLAND HOPE THIS HELPS

 

[Crane111]

Good morning HOPE YOU ARE WELL AND HAD GOOD WEEKEND WETHER PERMITTING View attachment 155095View attachment 155096View attachment 155097 HERE IS WHAT I HAVE REGARDING THE WATER WHERE I LIVE IN SCOTLAND HOPE THIS HELPS, THEN I CAN HOPEFULLY FILL TANK WIH YOUR HELP KIND REGARDS PAUL

 

[NannaLou]

Is there a reading for Calcium and maybe Magnesium..?

 

[NannaLou]

I think this is what you need.…

 

[Crane111]

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I think this is what you need.…

Thank you for your reply very much appreciate, when I went on Scottish water that’s all I good get so really don’t know what to do I will have look or try call them
kind Regards
Paul

 

[Essjay]

You don't need to call them, NannaLou has found the page you need.
Water companies in the UK give water quality reports and hardness separately. You found your water quality report which gives the name of your supply zone. Some water companies give the hardness on a web page, others have a pdf containing a table of hardness in all the supply zones - yours is one of the latter. NannaLou has copied and pasted that pdf here and highlighted your supply zone.

For Mannofield South supply zone, hardness is 34.01 mg/l calcium carbonate (ie ppm) and 1.91 German degrees or dH. This is very soft water.