spokanejared

I just had a vision and a tank and I went for it. What can I say. Thank you for the compliment.

Ok I will do that treatment. Yeah they are close to 5 total. I do in fact think they are a tad thin based on the research I've done but it's confused me since they eat like crazy. My red covers are gone but they bred at 3 inches body length. I had them in a 40 gallon tall planted tank and they went crazy in there.

Wow honestly I never even considered stunting. At what age are they supposed to be mature enough for breeding?

I don't understand what is strange about it? No their bodies are right around 3½ to 4 inches. I had a pair of red covers years back that spawned at 3 inches.

They are 4 inches today. they are very young still. Those angelfish are almost full grown. Tank is 150 gallons so it makes them look smaller in the photo.

How big are yours? Mine are still pretty young. My best guess is around a year old. I haven't wormed them yet either...

Yeah I was expecting at least someone to say beefheart is the main way to go. I guess I'll be biting the bullet and soucong some good beef heart. I appreciate the help. Btw my discus are insanely addicted to tubiflex and bloodworms. I do one frozen cube of bloodworms twice a day and 2 tubiflex cubes twice a day and a pinch of vibrant bites once a day. They got pudgy bellies to prove it but I want to see more thickness in my fish. They are healthy but at 4 inches I'm not wondering if I shoupd be seeing a little thicker heads at their size yet or not. What do you think based on the photos?

So I've had mine a little over 4 months and they have grown about 1½ inches. They were spawing in the second week I had them so I think it was already an established pair from the store display tank. I've read they need pristine water to even want to think about breeding so im happy that they are since that says good things about my water condition. All that being said I tried to get all males but my pigeon blood ended up being a female. What I'm finding is a female stirs the pot and makes all the males fight for her since discus don't pair for life. On that note don't be discouraged that yours don't breed because it's a problem that I could certainly live without. It sucks watching your expensive fish beat on eachother.

Just went through this same thing and tested it on all three of my tanks. The indicator didn't change when I put it into my 150 planted tank and I thought the same thing you did. I tested my oscar tank and my goldfish tank and my goldfish tank indicated ammonia so on that basis I'd say your good and have negligible ammonia levels in your tank.

What do you guys feed your discus to keep them fat? I give mine freeze dried brine shrimp, freeze dried tubiflex, frozen bloodworms, and vibrant bites. I don't really want to go Beef heart route due to it fouling out the tank quickly.

No they are in a community tank so they usually eat them before they hatch. They have tried 4 times now. Maybe someday I'll put them in their own tank but I'm not wanting fry right now.

That's great advice. I just wasn't sure if having a high gh and no kh could potentially cause me issues down the line.

That's a fair statement. I'm trying to dial in all parameters to as close to perfect as I can. I'm a hopeless perfectionist so I'm always looking for new advice and perspective to learn more.

Heres my little discus family in my 150 gallon. Yours look great.

I just bought 2 6500k 150 watt led floodlights that I'm replacing my fluval aquasky 2.0 with. With my 150 gallon 6ft tank it will give me 30,000 lumens and allow me to be able to get more advanced plants with high light requirements. I also run a fert regimen and my tank is co2 injected with 3 bps currently. No pun intended but these lights were 40 bucks after tax and shipping off Amazon so I don't have much to loose on this experiment. I will most likely only do a 7 to 8 hour light cycle to minimize algea risk untill the plants take hold well. I run my co2 from an hour before sunrise to and hour before sunset. If this works I will have found a way to make a great plant lighting setup for pennies on the dollar.

150 gallon

mine isn't super old but it's been up for 4 months. Still figuring things out.

First ill give specifics of the tank and then the issue. I have a 150 gallon planted tank with moderate to high bio load and many plants. It's a well established tank of 5 years but this planted rescaping I've done is only 4 months old. I have alot of driftwood in there as you can see. I have co2 running 3 bps running 11 hours a day turning on 1 hour before sunrise and shutting off 1 hour before sunset. I have .2 watts per gallon with new lights on order that will increase this to over 2 watts per gallon. I use easy green ferts twice a week. I have typical new plant melting here and there but has mostly worked itself out now. The temp is 86°. I run 2 fluval 110s with the sponge and bio media that came with them. I use 1 bag of chempure green carbon, and one mini pack of purigen in each filter. Now for the issue. My parameters are 6.4 ph, 0 ppm ammonia, 0 ppm nitrite, about 75 ppm of nitrate, kh is 0 ppm, gh is 300+ ppm. I'm not sure why my gh is so high. I'm doing 15% water changes every few days to start bringing it back to normal, and I added 1lb of crushed coral in a filter bag to one of my filters to help bring the kh up a little. My question, is there anything I can do that I'm not already doing to help balance out my kh and gh levels or am I worrying about something trivial? My fish have no ill symptoms and are eating and acting very well. Thoughts...?