They look happy and healthy and just plain gorgeous :P
Love the tank.
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Thread: New Wild Greens from Rio Mutum
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Mon Sep 20, 2010, 10:09 PM #31Eternal Moderator
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Thirty-five years keeping and breeding discus, and I'm still learning :P
Merrilyn has passed, but will not be forgotten - Goodbye dear friend
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Tue Sep 21, 2010, 12:45 PM #32Tiny Fry
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When I grow up I want wild discus.
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Wed Sep 22, 2010, 12:46 AM #33Moderator
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they are looking great TW . nice work
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Wed Sep 22, 2010, 07:04 AM #34Medium Discus
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They look really fantastic hopefully they will spawn for you one day.
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Wed Sep 22, 2010, 10:12 PM #35Moderator
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Give the poor mongrels some shade !!!!
"If it isn't a wild its way too mild ! "
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Wed Sep 22, 2010, 10:17 PM #36San Merah Discus
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Thanks for all the nice comments.
They normally have frogbit for shade, but I removed it while they were having a regular preventative worming treatment, which was spread over 4 weeks. I was told that frogbit hates any sort of medication & will die in protest.
I have to say though, nothing in their behaviour altered when the frogbit was removed to suggest they are stressed without it.
I would like to try some sort of lilly pad type thing that floats on the surface, but doesn't root in a substrate. Frogbit is the closest I could get to it, but any suggestions for a suitable plant (that is available in Australia) would be greatly appreciated!Previously known as "Tankwatcher"
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Thu Sep 23, 2010, 08:33 AM #37Free Swimmer
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Or maybe get the water a little darker
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Sat Sep 25, 2010, 05:26 PM #38Hi, I'm New Here!
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Hello Robyn,
They are looking superb!!! I bet you are so pleased with them and well worth all the trouble you went to to get them. Breeding next?
Ive used water lilies in the past and Im now using them on my current set up, Nymphea Stellata, if the light isnt to bright they send leaves to the surface just like a pond lily pad. If the light is bright they grow some nice leaves under the surface aswell. They grow from a little bulb which I put in a very shallow pot with some fertilized substrate then hide it beneath the sand.
Dan
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Sun Sep 26, 2010, 01:56 AM #39San Merah Discus
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Fantastic Robyn, they look great. The only way a discus should look.
As far as shade goes, I've kept a native lily species called Nymphoides spongiosa out of NT. Reasonably small lily pad compared to other species but the stems seem to intertwine and when they reach the surface, the lillies clump and give good shade. They also produce nice little white flowers too which is a bonus. Having said all that they will need some sort of substrate eventually which you've said you're not keen on.
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Mon Dec 06, 2010, 11:09 PM #40Just an Egg
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What plant is that?
Can anyone please identify the ferny looking plant in the photos taken 5/2/10 and 15/2/10. They are the ones in the substrate???
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