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3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:39 pm
by Kuna
After a long time decided to keep the king of aquarium and made a 3 feet tank for them (with 2 feet DIY sump kind filter). The details are as below:
Tank Size: 3X2X1.5 ft
Hard scape material: ADA amazonia and decorative sand at the front, Drift wood and some collection rocks
Light: 2 X 54W T5HO (mostly I switch on only one)
Filter: DIY Sump kind, 23X15X18(H) inch with a 1200 L/H powerhead
Plants: Vals, bolbities, anubias nana, cyperus helferi etc.
Fishes: A group of Discuss + some cardinals and rummy nose + lots of cherry shrimps
Here are few pics of the setup
After a week of plantation:
With Filter System
And the FTS
Re: 3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:18 pm
by parthapratim22
Perfect
Re: 3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:18 pm
by SCORPIO
Very nice. Discus looks very beautiful in planted tanks.
Re: 3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:08 pm
by pinaki_pal
awesome set up.....what kind of discus ull b kerping here?!
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Regards,
Pinaki
Re: 3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:24 pm
by Kuna
Thanks Guys!!!
The Discuss are in their new home now
The bigger ones!!!
The babies at their new home
Blue diamond baby...
The group
P. Eruptions and Clasic Turquoises
Penang Eruption looking at the RCS
Penang Eruption
Re: 3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:59 pm
by SCORPIO
Beautiful. I afraid some of these may be infest by peppering with time.
Re: 3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 12:31 am
by Achintya
in the first discus I have seen 1 small BD along with eruption and turquoise discus. please separate that discus from this tank.this is the smallest of the lot and has a huge probability to be a stunted discus in future. raise it in a separate tank that you already do.
otherwise,apart from marlboro strain,which is in a separate tank,I don't believe other discus will have peepering on their bodies.
Re: 3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 1:23 pm
by Romi
what a lovely tank.
I hope you will be able to do always not only the requisite water changes but also the extra care that keeping the discus in a planted tank entails... the prettiest discus planted tank
Re: 3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:11 pm
by jack
one of the most beautiful discus setup seen heads up....
but didn't got your sump design please elaborate it...
how many discuss are you planning to keep in this 3 footer ?
Re: 3 feet Discus tank
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:15 am
by Kuna
SCORPIO wrote:Beautiful. I afraid some of these may be infest by peppering with time.
Thanks Rajiv
. One question, why some of these discuss may infest by peppering with time?
Achintya wrote:in the first discus I have seen 1 small BD along with eruption and turquoise discus. please separate that discus from this tank.this is the smallest of the lot and has a huge probability to be a stunted discus in future. raise it in a separate tank that you already do.
otherwise,apart from marlboro strain,which is in a separate tank,I don't believe other discus will have peepering on their bodies.
Thanks Achintya
. Thanks for your suggestion, removed the BD from the main tank.
Romi wrote:what a lovely tank.
I hope you will be able to do always not only the requisite water changes but also the extra care that keeping the discus in a planted tank entails... the prettiest discus planted tank
Thanks Romi
jack wrote:one of the most beautiful discus setup seen heads up....
but didn't got your sump design please elaborate it...
how many discuss are you planning to keep in this 3 footer ?
Thanks Jack
Here is a rough diagram of my DIY sump/filter system.
The storage area of the sump has been used to keep the babies
I have use the same idea for my filter as per the below video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt6eMowvuD8