Hey everyone, another novacastrian!

[broadfoot]

My gold vine came in the mail today. I'll have to chop off the top of the vertical piece to fit it under the glass covers.

Filters should arrive in the next couple of days!



I used some spare tiles under the left side to level out the stand. I need something thinner, ~5mm, to go under the middle.

[broadfoot]

Ok, I've got my filters.
One came with a snapped shaft but the guy I got them from is sending me an entire head to replace it!
Half of the wood is still floating but it'll only be a few days away from sinking.

I now need to get some fish!
I'm definitely getting 5-8 of one strain of discus, I don't like the mix and match look.

I like the red-spotted greens, and red leopards. Also most turquoises I like. I'm trying to find out if any of these strains have pigeon blood backgrounds, because my black background will probably bring out their peppering.

But it's time to find, order and wait by the mailbox! Or go for a drive.

[Woodsie]

I love going and just looking at discus in the shops. Trying to sweet talk hubby into another tank just because the discus addiction has hit so hard lol.Have you had a look to see who is close to your area? Love the RSG and the red leopards.

[broadfoot]

Apart from keeping an eye on the member classifieds, I'm expecting I'll end up buying for Marlon.

Newcastle doesn't have any LFS that sell quality discus (as far as I'm aware). They're always overpriced and just in tanks of "assorted discus".

[broadfoot]

I've ordered my discus! 8 red turks at 6-7cm are coming in a week and I'm heaps excited.

Currently the tank is inhabited by 23 Cardinal Tetras, 4 Otocinclus, a handful of Cherry Shrimp and some driftwood & Java fern.

Here is one of the Cherry Shrimp hanging around on my goldvine which has a few spots of stuff like this on it. I'm not sure if it's algae or something from inside the goldvine.


Here are some of the Otos chilling out under the driftwood.


And here is a FTS. Barebottom, 2xT5HO.


The driftwood is arranged like that to hold down a floating piece, I'll rearrange it if it ever sinks...

[broadfoot]

Yay!

What could it be?


...?


Fish in a box


Fish in a bag


Fish in a bucket


Almost full up from a water change


Fish in the tank!


This last photo is with no aquarium light and no flash, trying to make them feel a bit safe.
Some of them were keen to eat 10 minutes after making it into the tank.

Pretty excited!

[swifto]

Looks good,how ever the cherries will make a great snack.

[broadfoot]

That's ok, I have a million of them in my other tank...

[Hooked]

Hi Broadfoot,

I've recently started breeding Cherries and Taiwanese Shrimp. I'd love to put them in with my planted Discus tank too. Is it 100% that they will be munched? Or do the larger ones survive better? Or are they just harassed?

Cheers,

[broadfoot]

My personal experience of having discus spans a massive two days, so I can't give you much unique info there. My discus are 6-7cm and I haven't seen them eat any yet.

My understanding is that discus will eat pretty much anything they can catch and fit in their mouth, but shrimp colonies can be pretty hard to wipe out so maybe they'll breed fast enough to stay alive.