swifty Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 Hey all. As you may or may not know i have a 48 x 18 x 22 (l w h) tank [inches] which is about 310 L and about 250L if you take out the volume of water used by the gravel[probally about 48 x 18 x 20 then]. The tanks been setup for about 6 months and there is barely anything in it - 12 Rasboras, 3 SAE's and a platy and lots of plants. Now once my plants grow back a bit [i did a major cut back where i removed alot of plants and cut them down so the tank looks emplty now] ill need to think about what to be keeping. The filter is a prime 30 [900lph]. Im wanting to try discus but if that was the case i would pick up some more specialist equiptment like some pH controllers and an extra filter [fluval 304?]. So what im wanting to do is something along the lines of; 24x Rummy Nose Tetras 24x Cardinal Tetras 24x Harlequin Rasboras 3x SAE a few platy growing up here and there. an amount of discus [5\6?] pair of BN At the moment ive got the 3 SAE's, 12 rasboras and a few platies. Now im thinking about what to do. So any ideas on those stocking levels and having discus in a densly planted tank. Cheers. Rob edit; My maintainance at the moment is weekly hovering over the gravel to pick up scum of the surface which gives me about a total of 80 litre a week, which is about 25% (i may do this like 40litres on a wednesday and the other on a saturday for example] and then trimming plants when needed and adding hormones for plants and Co2 and all those goodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerospel Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 Hey mate Maybe go with ottocinlus instead of BNs cos Ive heard BNs damage plants,but then Ive only heard of it so I thought Id let u know Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixem Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 Hi Rob Discus love a planted tank. Are you using c02 though? I would watch what fish I put with the Discus. If you do decide to use c02 you will have to monitor the water more carefully. (I don't use it, so my plants look ok instead of great ) Cardinals and Rummy Noses will look great. Corridora cats are good. I would go maximum 5 Discus. You could have more but you may find as I did that some will not grow as they get picked on by the larger ones. Platies and Discus? I don't know. Discus love CLEAN water so more filteration would be good. A 30% water change a week would be fine. Turn up the temp to about 29 to 30. When you go to buy your discus, make sure they are not shy acting, they should come to the front of the tank and if you raise your hands they should show some interest thinking they are going to be fed. Check their eyes thay shoud NOT look big in relation to the head. HTH and good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swifty Posted June 27, 2004 Author Share Posted June 27, 2004 Thanks, I am using Co2 injection and would be getting a fluval 204 or a 304. But then would this create too much current in the tank? And i would then buy a solenoid and Automatic co2 injection system, the dupla one so it remains stable. The water is about 27ish at the moment and i dont know if i want to raise it any higher because the plants may not like it so much. Thanks again. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSMill Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 Hi Rob, Sounds like a lot to me for a 4' tank, and a bit of a jumble with three species of schooling fish. I tend to think that around 40 fish of a single species would look more striking. Then I would get a dozen or so small corydoras. After that at most a pair of discus. If you wanted any more you probably wouldn't have room for the tetras/rasboras....but of course this is just my personal opinion! Cheers Troy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swifty Posted June 28, 2004 Author Share Posted June 28, 2004 hmmmm now im kind of confused =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robfishfan Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 hi ' ive just set up a planted 3foot x 2.5 show tank and it's been runing for about a month now , ive got 12 rummy nose who just went in and six various discus , 3 went in first one week after set up and three more this week , also one bristle nose and two coolie loaches next will be four corys and thats it , some of those discus wil pair up and be moved to their own tanks , i have no co2 system just lots of anubis and ambulia which look great , at the start i used aquarium clay for the base with two inches of gravel , the anubis have set roots into this and have new growth all over, im running 2213 Ehime and a corner filter for oxygen and timer for about ten hours of light. i would not have SAE because they like to such on discus , and i know that BN do this to so i check daily and will remove if he does this, soon i will start a new discus tank , to put all my new discus babies in , they look so kool i use seachem discus buffer and weekly water changes of 30% and lots of wood , looks nice and keeps the PH down and the water brown. cheers and good luck rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swifty Posted July 1, 2004 Author Share Posted July 1, 2004 Thanks, Ill think i will leave it and jjust ad some Rummy's for the time so i can figure out whats going on with the plants and stablealise everything further. Thanks for the help again Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.d.m Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 at lams theres a heavily planted tank with about 40 aussie rainbow fish-spectacular isnt the word!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swifty Posted July 2, 2004 Author Share Posted July 2, 2004 hmmm now the rainbows come back into it.... Maybe ill hed down to have a look oneday. Could you PM me the adress please? Thanks Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punie Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 at lams theres a heavily planted tank with about 40 aussie rainbow fish-spectacular isnt the word!! Back home where i come from, there's a fish farm who has a heavily planted tank (8ft) with 2000+ cardinal tetras in it. I must say when it comes to feeding time, it's a breath taking sight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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