RevolutionBoas

Damtrees you got any discus left?

I have been given a winter project this week and thats to build a small pond for our patio. Maxed out I can do about 150gallons but im thinking closer to 120 or 90. Now I have found a small pre built pond that looks like a large bowl but I am wanting to keep koi in it during the spring an summer. Now dont go flaming me here. I know koi need more space but I will be purchasing small koi in the spring, raising them, then adding them to my fathers pond in the fall. With the KHV virus we dont want to take any chances and with my small pond we both win. So I am lookig for some ideas and insiration from anyone with a small above ground pond pr even a large above grous pond. Ryan

We just use the pump from the filter. Basically like jvision says point it straight up and break the ice if it domes over. If its really cold we use a trough heater.

Movie your plants into the hext and put 6 or 7 discus into the 75. Discus dont need the pristine water to survive they need it for proper growth. Its thought discus mucus has a growth inhibitor in it to stunt other discus. So when growing they need daily water changes. As adults you can easily get away with 2 or 3 times a week. Put in a big sponge filter, AC500 with the sponges and a sponge pre filter is all you need for that tank. If your starting out id skip putting anything in the tank other than a heater and the filter(s). This will help you and be easier to get out all the waste. Personally this is my 2nd venture into discus. I have a 50 gallon and will put 4 or 5 adults in there. Water changes 2x a week with ro and tap mix. Im shooting for a 75ppm TDS. Water is at 84 and a sponge filter. Next year I may upgrade or just start splitting pairs i to individual 20g "High" tanks.

3 discus will not be happy in this tabk. You will have a run that will get the crap beat out of him and a pair if your lucky. Otherwise you will have one really nice one and 2 that are beat nearly to death. If you want discus spend the money and invest in a pair. I am waiting for Rick at Canadian Aquafarm Discus hatchery to get in some adult ARSGs for myself. I had a member on here pm me and slag rick pretty hard then offered to send me pictures of his fish instead. Fish were never sent and it left a bad taste for this member. Rick went out of his way to pair 2 discus for me, how many people would do that for a customer 1000km away without even a deposit down? Hos next shipment comes in aug september we could do a joint prder and split shipping if you want. This will gove you time to get set up as well.

Maroons get way too big for your tank. If you want more than clowns look at ocellaris and Perculas. If you only want clowns you could look into skunks but other wise the clarkii complex and maroons get far too big.

No problem! Give that tank another week to settle out and by next weekend you should easily be able to buy uour 2 clowns. Any idea what species your going to add? In a 26 gallon tank you can probably add another 2-3 fish in that 2-3 inch range any idea what else you like? I have a blue assessor in with my clowns but am looking for a nice little wrasse and a goby.

Thats false I have 2 clowns and they dont host or bother anything. I even have nems in my tank. Most clowns are captive bred and have never seen an anemone anyway so dont worry about it. Buy your clowns and in a year or so when you can keep that tank stable then buy your anemone. A tank that size about your only option is a Bubbletip, the rest fet far too large. Even a BTA can reach 10" in diameter! But there is alot of options other than anemones. Clowns will host in Fuzzy Mushrooms, Elegance Corals, Hammer Coral, Frogspawn, Green Star Polyps, my Wyoming Whit even hosted my acans! Those are all much easier to keep than anemones.

Thanks! I have been in this hobby for about 20 years now. Been keeping fish since I was young and this is my 2nd venture into discus. Those sound like nice tanks wild discus are definatly a holy grail of discus. Ive always wanted a wild discus & Altum angel tank... Especially the altums!

Another addition here I have had to swap out heaters. The fluval 200W isnt keeping the water at 86 degrees, infact it is struggling to handle 83. Remember the room is heated to 80 degrees so I am finding this odd. I swapped it out for an Ehiem Jager 250W. Hopefully this works better.

No worries Spruce I got thick skin and dont get my feelings hurt too easy. I want to go with a 4 foot tank but here is what I am dealing with. This tank is in my reptile office where I run my buisness Revolution Boas. I was having some issues with low humidity due to my space heater and set up a small tank. Now this has grown into a hobby in my snake room. The room is small and I keep boas which need 4x2 cages plus some larger racks. So here it is as soon as you walk in. My plan was to have the tank against the wall between the closet and power panel. THis is 34" but the tank will fit. At this time I cant move it there. so I moved the tank where it sits which I actually like. But if the tank was 1 foot longer I wouldnt be able to fully open that middle rack. And here from the other corner, the 20g is going up for sale soon. If my planted tank livestock sells I can use that wall to house a longer tank up to 6 feet if I really wanted. But for right now the 50G will due. What kind of discus do you have? I am on the hunt for some Albino Red Spot Greens. Missed out of a pair when I left the country, when I got back and was able to message him they had sold. So he is on the hunt for a few more for me.

Thanks Spruce I have heard those are the old school days of feeding fish. Even the guys on there are starting to say to avoid the beefheart, chicken and Bison, replace with a fish based meal. I can get my hands on some high end Pacific Plankton as well as some nice blood worms. Was thinking that mixed with feedings of NLS Discus Pellets, Tetra Colour Bits, New Era Tropical Flake, New Era Discus Pellet, and Prime Reef Flake. Maybe even some PE Mysis Shrimp. Hopefully this is a nice varied diet for these fish.

Thanks for the concern guys. Ive been talking to some of the die hards on Simply Discus and 10 gallons per fish seems to be the norm. If anything comes up I can bump up my water changes to 3x a week. Jorg I intend on adding another sponge filter (if I can find one no shop here sells them) or an AC 70 with only sponges and a pre filter.

I should be able to fit 5 adults into this tank. 50 gallons, 1 fish per 10 gallons.

I am setting up another tank this time for some Discus. A little backstory, I have kept discus in the past in a 40g "breeder". I picked up my first discus from Riverfront back when they were in the old store. I had a Red Turqoise, Blue Diamond, White Diamond, and a Blue Snakeskin. I had them for a while when I was bitten by the Saltwater bug and have been keeping reef tanks ever since. Recently I shut my reef down and moved the fish I kept into a 29g Biocube. Now that my first year of technical training I got the Discus bug again. Enter the new tank. 50g Hagen Tank this is the 3 foot model. Fluval 200W Submersible heater Hydro-Sponge 4 This room is heated to 80F so hopefully this heater will hold the temps at 86. I dont want to do the big daily water changes required to grow discus so I am going to pick up adults and do 50% water changes 2x a week. Right now I am waiting for the tank to finish its cycle and I will keep track of my progress in this thread.