AndyRoo Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 So, I finally got my fish tank up and running again! Yay! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springvale Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Wow they’re lovely 👍. I keep fish too but tropical. Have a tank with discus. lin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Beautiful fish 😊 Could watch them all day !! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyRoo Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 3 hours ago, Springvale said: Wow they’re lovely 👍. I keep fish too but tropical. Have a tank with discus. lin I'd *love* a Discus tank, but aren't they legendarily difficult to keep? 54 minutes ago, Luvachicken said: Beautiful fish 😊 Could watch them all day !! I'm now watching them all night too 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springvale Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 1 hour ago, AndyRoo said: I'd *love* a Discus tank, but aren't they legendarily difficult to keep? I'm now watching them all night too 🤣 1 hour ago, AndyRoo said: I'd *love* a Discus tank, but aren't they legendarily difficult to keep? I'm now watching them all night too 🤣 We have 14 discus of varying sizes and so far so good. It was very confusing at first as the advise we was getting was very conflicting.....especially about the water. Some said it had to be soften water and others disagreed. We settled on tap water👍. We haven’t had any problems so far (touching some wood🤪). lin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Both of your tanks look amazing! I have a 60l tank we set up about a month ago with a few Platies and Mollies in, I love watching them and wish I had room for a massive tank. I want to get some yellow shrimp in a few weeks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyRoo Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 22 minutes ago, Lewis said: Both of your tanks look amazing! I have a 60l tank we set up about a month ago with a few Platies and Mollies in, I love watching them and wish I had room for a massive tank. I want to get some yellow shrimp in a few weeks Mollies and Platties? You'll have a million fry in a few months. lol I found the the issue with Mollies was trying to get them *not* to spawn! 28 minutes ago, Springvale said: We have 14 discus of varying sizes and so far so good. It was very confusing at first as the advise we was getting was very conflicting.....especially about the water. Some said it had to be soften water and others disagreed. We settled on tap water👍. We haven’t had any problems so far (touching some wood🤪). lin Are they tank bred, do you know? I'd LOVE these. I have an RO unit for my sal*****er set-up, so I could always use the water from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springvale Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Yes they are tank bred ...we found a discus specialist not far from us and he gave us a fair amount of advise. Yes you could use that RO unit👍. I would love a marine tank but someone once said that they were very difficult to keep and you needed a very big open wallet??😲 although that was about 15 years ago. 13 hours ago, Lewis said: Both of your tanks look amazing! I have a 60l tank we set up about a month ago with a few Platies and Mollies in, I love watching them and wish I had room for a massive tank. I want to get some yellow shrimp in a few weeks That’s a lovely natural looking tank .....your plants look really healthy . We found it hard to find plants to withstand the 28-30 degree heat that need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springvale Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Oops 🤪 that was meant to say.....we found it hard to find plants to withstand the 28-30 degree heat that the discus need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyRoo Posted February 21, 2021 Author Share Posted February 21, 2021 I looked at Chen's Discus for some, which are lovely. I don't have anymore space for them right now though. Getting a Marine tank set-up properly can be quite costly. I have a 5ft tank, a sump, fancy lighting, fancy pumps, the RO unit, and a decent skimmer, and I think with the rock and sand included, it's probably cost me about £1,800 - before the fish! But you can do it cheaper if you want. You can also do it a lot more expensive: I know someone with a room divider tank which I believe cost about £5,000 in itself - and then he has some fish which cost £1,500 a piece!! I'd want to know they were immortal for that much money. lol If you have a fish only tank like mine, then once everything is set-up, it's not really any harder to look after than any other kind of tank. The only complication is that you have to mix up sal*****er when you do a water change... but that's about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springvale Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 I think if our discus went pear shaped then I think we will go marine. We are now 10 months in with the discus and 8 weeks prior to that with the tank /water setting up. They actually appear to know you and come to the front of tank ......makes it so rewarding. £1.500 per fish 😮 I’d want a lake full 🤪 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...