Built in 6ft tank

[DiscusDave]

It may also pay to get some Flourish Potassium. With that much light you need good plant growth to out compete the algae - the first step is C02 or Excel as said above, then you need to provide the macro nutrients the plants need - potassium in particular (followed by nitrogen and phosphates but that's often present anyway)

[aquafrogstuff]

Update 31/08/08 - Completed custom light fitting and installed over tank. The fitting runs 3 x 150W MH @ 6,400K. It also has four downlights which will have their globes replaced with blue HILEDs for moonlighting effect. The sides of the fitting contains 4 x 48W flourescent tubes which will also be replaced in he near future with tubes more appropriate for aquarium applications. Not sute what lighting regime I'm going to run at this stage. Haven't got that far, still sitting like a stunned mullet admiring the lighting effect on the tank.

Other than the fitting, I'm still battling algae (hair) so I've added some albino bristlenoses and planted wisteria to compete with the algae.

Hope you all enjoy.

[dearis]

Awesome lighting system!

[aquafrogstuff]

Its been a while since I posted some images in this thread, so I thought I'd add some recent photos (from early October 2009). In the last few months, the tanks has settled well, plecos added and additional plants, some thriving, others didn't cope so well and died off. Anyway, recent pics below, enjoy....

[Mr Wild]

Looks awesome!

[lpiasente]

wish I could do that at my house. There doesn't seem to be much swimming room for the fishies, those plants have gone wild.

[jannie_s]

looking good post a photo when it has settled with fish in it

[aquafrogstuff]

Jannie_s, thanks. It's got fish in it (13 discus, 2 sailfin plecos and an assortment of corys, tetras and SAEs).

Thanks for the other comments.

[xrboy_85]

Looking good Dwayne

plenty of hiding spots for all discus!!!! we should start an algae mulisha!!! ha ha

Cheers Justin