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Offline whitedevil

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« on: February 03, 2010, 05:47:14 PM »
Hi, joined up because i am setting up a discus tank, already have angels going and paired off so its a matter of time now.

I got a ton of tank, most 10g bare bottom sponge filtered qt's and nurseries
52g fbh planted
40g tall  guppy love nest planted
45g discus build to be planted

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Re: new to here
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2010, 05:56:31 PM »
Welcome to WC...happy to have you and your fish here O0

Looking forward to hearing about your new Discus and sound like you are off to a good start  :)
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Re: new to here
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2010, 09:23:06 PM »
Welcome to the site, good to see a fellow MTS (multi tank syndrome) sufferer  ;D
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Re: new to here
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2010, 12:13:43 AM »
Hi and welcome. :)
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Re: new to here
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2010, 04:00:26 AM »
Quote from: Gerry on February 03, 2010, 09:23:06 PM
Welcome to the site, good to see a fellow MTS (multi tank syndrome) sufferer  ;D

I got both kinds of MTS, the disease and the snail( which I ship out 10 bucks a box to forum members including shipping and all winter packaging materials, 50-100 snails per bag. But yes it will be fun

This is the new DISCUS tank


my 52g FBH
( plants arent fairing well right now, I need to refil my Co2 canister somewhere,old shop quit selling paintball stuff.)


and my 40g tall guppy studio 51 well a studio 51 in the fish world anyways.

adults removed for baby sale

Here are the adults they are back in the 40g


The 40 contains some really wicked colorations for natural selection breeding.

I hope we are, I mean I want eco complete in there because its the cats meow, price is crappy but all prices suck in our hobby.

but yeah the new discus set up is why I am here.

I need a few pointers because I am set on my set up options, it will have a hang on overflow and will have a sump, now its a matter of who sells the best sump that will fit the measurement I need. I need it no wider then 30" and no deeper as in front to back then 11"
the bulbs are taken care of it came with two 30W t-8's that are being changed out for new bulbs. What size heater is needed and what temp to keep the discus at is another concern.

Like I said we are no stranger but this is our first run with discus, its been a "dream" of my fathers to have a species only discus tank and well thats what he has non his plate now, he bred fish from the mid 60's till he graduated in 75, he bred allsorts of fish and from 80ish to 1991 he had 4 tanks the smallest a 50 pentagon and the biggest a 90g texas cichlid tank(two fish fit, a 20" pleco and a 3 pound texas cichlid.)

He knows his cichlids but discus are putting him and myself into heavy research mode and well a few questions arised and thats why Im here.

Thanks for the welcomes. Its nice to appear out of the blue and have people that can converse with you at any level.
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Re: new to here
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2010, 04:15:41 AM »
Very nice tank for the Discus and other tanks are lovely O0

Others will chime in on the discus as I don't know to much about them. 
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Re: new to here
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2010, 08:41:29 AM »
hiya and welcome to the site  O0
nice tanks as well
sorry i dont know much about Discus tho :(
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Re: new to here
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2010, 09:11:42 AM »
Me neither. But welcome, and cool set ups  O0
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Re: new to here
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2010, 09:52:22 AM »
Very nice set up,and I hope all goes well with the Discus :).Sorry I have not keep Discus either.
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Re: new to here
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2010, 01:30:56 PM »
Welcome to the site nice looking tanks and fish. I don't now much about discus either so let us follow along as you set it up and may be we'll all learn something.  :)
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2010, 10:07:06 AM »
Im here to learn about new world cichs.

I keep angels now a total of 5 in a 52g FBH, 3 juves two breeding adults.

I also breed guppies for some extra scratch and food supply for the growing angels
I am setting up well I am helping my father set up a 45g tank I got for him earlier this week, its all glass' classic oak ensemble, the nice looking solid oak ones, more professional looking for his office.  We are going to stock it with only a BNP or two(thinking just 1) and 5-8 discus. discus will be 3" when we get them however we know they will outgrow the 45 and then the extra 3 will go in with the angels in a heavily planted blackwater environment.

I will post a new thread on discus questions as I have a ton.


Thanks for the welcomes in advance.
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Re: Newbie McNewb kinda
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2010, 10:24:33 AM »
hiya and welcome to the site  O0
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Re: Newbie McNewb kinda
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2010, 10:32:59 AM »
welcome O0 ask away somebody's got the answers
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Re: new to here
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2010, 10:37:09 AM »
Great looking tanks, and sorry but I too know nothing about Discus except that they are very pretty fish
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Re: Newbie McNewb kinda
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2010, 11:44:49 AM »
two threads up, can they be merged?
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