woot fishytank stuff

[Psyfalcon]

The main difficulty with Discus seems to be growing them. Most people feed them very protein rich food hoping to increase the growth rate( beef heart). That in turn creates a lot of waste out the other end of the fish. Therefore, they typically do tons of water changes.

How close is your false wall to your sink

 

[Fruit bat]

The styrofoam rock trick? Go ahead then, just make sure you get lots of holes in it! I love natural rock, though, so I'm safe from trying to build stuff out of it.

Fruit Bat, picture 1 looks more like a Texas Cichlid, than a Rio Salto? I thought those didn't have the light colored spangling.

Convicts are are grey and black striped. Rio saltos and texas are very close. Texas have more green in their bodies. They also have yellow edges on their fins. Rio Saltos are often sold and called texas cichlids. Texas cichlids also get larger than Rio saltos.

 

[Fruit bat]

scratch that yellow on the fins thing , I was thinking of green terrors. Sorry.

 

[FoxyWench]

yeah the constant waterchanges while growing them out is hard, i can reach the sink from where the planned placment, but it would require a full extension to the gravel vac, its the storage of aged water to REFILL the tank thats the problem, its a 400 sqft apt if you dont count the bathroom space, and its all open plan, so theres nowhere to store a tank for aging water to top up a discus tank...

 

[Psyfalcon]

Why are you aging it? pH/hardness too off to just go from the tap?

My fish are not discus, but I've got a decent water supply, so aging it isn't going to do much with any dissolved gasses.

 

[blue]

Someday Ill get back into fish keeping, I miss my stingrays. Ild be tempted to do a big discus tank.

Aussie, do you have any pics of your homemade filters?

 

[FoxyWench]

its city water and kinda hard...so id just be worried...and was told that discus, especially while growing should only be toped up with aged water?

 

[blue]

The lady I got my rays from used RO water for her discus.

 

[FoxyWench]

ive heard of people using RO filterd water, unfortunatly i cant afford an RO filter for my sink...hmm wonder if bottled water would do...

 

[Psyfalcon]

Most bottled water is just tap water!

When people say aged, the effects are rather limited. You can degas the water, chlorine (if its not chloramine) and CO2 if it gets dissolved in the water. That will keep the pH from rising as the CO2 removes itself from the water, in the tank.Not much else changes with water sitting around.

You can test the pH out of the tap, and the same water (fill a glass or something) a few hours later to see if CO2 is a problem. They might also mean peat filtering, but its a stretch to call that aging, it is active water modification.