Update on my 75G Planted Discus Tank - Aquascaping

PinoyDiscus · 04-28-2005, 09:21 PM

Hi guys,

Just an update on my 75G planted discus tank. It's been going well for the past 5 months...I posted my first tank pics here last November if I remember correctly and just wanted to update you guys.... Had some trouble with algae the past months, but I reduced the lighting and now have only 4 lamps over my tank. I also used Tom Barr's Estimative Index to great effect. Algae has virtually disappeared from my tank...

Excuse the poor quality of the pictures, these were taken with my MiniDV which isn't really suited for high quality pics...

Positive/Negative comments are welcome...

Thanks!

Front Shot

Right side close up

Diagonal view

Discus eating

Close up of red melon discus looking for more bloodworms

Full tank shot

Some more shots

Left side

Continued...

PinoyDiscus · 04-28-2005, 09:22 PM

More fishies

Angels closeup

Albino cories on vacation...

Feeding time!

Last...

Thanks for viewing...

**John P.** · 04-28-2005, 10:13 PM

Coming along nicely. I wil say, however, that you have a lot of big fish in there!

PinoyDiscus · 04-28-2005, 10:45 PM

Well, I used to have a lot of small fish like 60+ neon tetras but my discus decimated the population, hunting the neons during the early morning hours... Lost every single one and decided not to add anymore dither fish...

I was thinking of rummies but was worried that they might become discus dinner...

What would you recommend as good dither fish that would be hard for the discus to chase down?

Tiptoptank · 04-29-2005, 05:14 AM

Cardinal tetras. Neons don't do well in high heat.

The_Holy_Bull · 04-29-2005, 08:33 PM

Wow good job that is a gorgeous setup you have there. I love to se angels and discus together.

Laith · 04-30-2005, 01:20 AM

Very nice.

I have cardinal tetras with Discus and never had a problem. I'm a bit surprised that Discus would hunt and eat neons.

Angels, definitely! They can be very aggressive. So I would tend to blame the angels more than the Discus.

PinoyDiscus · 05-02-2005, 06:10 PM

Thanks for the nice comments. Actually, the angels ignore the neons. I've actually seen my discus hunting the neons during the early morning hours. They probably went through 5 neons a day... =)