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    Blue Diamond Discus
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    What Gravel To Use On A 5FT?

    Hey everyone

    I just made up my mind to upgrade my small 3ft 160L discus tank to a 350L 5ft tank and move 1 of the tanks out of my room it started to get a little full LOL.

    These are the specs of the tank as i need some help with the gravel.

    Tank is 300L (approx with gravel driftwood etc)
    The tank will have 1.0 WPG so low light plants will be in there like Anubis etc and off cuts from my 4ft display planted tank.
    I have choosen 8 juvnile Red Turks to go in there.. Thanks to Rod Lewis

    This is the complication:

    Gravel:I have a white gravel with a few brownish rocks blened in with them and seeing how discus blend into there enviroment will white rocks make them look ugly or not show there best colours?

    Example:I had the 3ft tank as BB when first getting my 4 juvinile discus and the bottom of the 3ft tank was tinted black and all my discus were black in colour for 3 weeks untill i choose to add gravel to the tank and after about 20mins of adding the grvel to the tank as well as some plants and drftwood my discus came alive so to speak they were orange and showing there colours alot more etc and that gravel was a orange colour.

    So can someone let me know what to do with that probelm about gravel as i have already got 50kg of the white gravel from previous tanks and thought i might use that what do you think

    Yes i don't want to have gravel i find it no harder to clean the tank and makes the tank a little neater as i can add plants.

    Thanks everyone for ya help becuase i'll need it LOL

    CHEERS

    A few pics of the white gravel let me know what you think
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    Cheers,

    Rick

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    Hi Rick,

    that gravel should suit the purpose very well.

    I under stand as far as the colour of the fish goes but it will be ok.

    A nice piece of driftwood and plants will look nice.

    Ben

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    Blue Diamond Discus
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    Thanks Ben Now i don't have to spend like $80 on gravel saved me a few $$$
    Cheers,

    Rick

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    Mind you....Black gravel looks stunning!

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    Blue Diamond Discus
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    Yeah it does my brother has it but i find it buffers the water to much becuase my bro can get from about 6.8 after a w/c and will rasie to about 7.8 maybe 8.0 over a week but he only has tropical fish and they all seem happy

    But yes black gravel does look but if i can save a bit $$ i will LOL
    Cheers,

    Rick

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    Medium Discus
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    Looks multi colour to me not white.

    Just like to add, if you think about it the substrate is a once off cost so get what you like.
    Not like fish food you have to buy regularly and the electricity to run the tanks plus the water for WC and whatever else i have missed out on,These thing's are on going cost in running a tank.

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    Blue Diamond Discus
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    Yeah that's true duck might sleep on it

    Might think of getting a darker colour to show the fishyd colours better
    Cheers,

    Rick

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    Just my quick two cents...

    Black gravel does look very good. But the discus can darken and you don't get best bang for buck out of their colouration.

    That gravel you have showed us looks like the run of the mill "Coffs Harbour Gravel"

    IMO opinion discus look fantastic with a really light substrate. I use pool filter sand in one of my tanks at the suggestions of others such as Proteus etc. It looks fantastic (except at the moment as i'm battling with an algae problem), the discus colour up very well.
    OSCAR

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    Blue Diamond Discus
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    Cheers Oscar you i'll price some different gravel today and let you know what i am doing thanks for everyones help...
    Cheers,

    Rick

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    i use white marbel chips in my flowerhorn tank and it looks great. looks very similar to sand. i think it cost about $10 for 25kg from a landscaping place.
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