joz
Thu Sep 16, 2010, 03:14 AM
Hi everyone.
Stumbled across this place a little while ago and have been lurking since.
So I thight it was about time to join and say hi.
A bit about myself.
I have been keeping fish since I was a youngster then about 20 years ago I started to get somewhat serious about breeding not only fish but tanks aswell it seemed.
Then of course came discus.
Soon I had a fish room(converted garage) with about 50-60 tanks all plumbed with overflows and connected to both drainage and to my heated water stoarage/filtering tanks.The room heated by two wall furnaces,two just incase one died.
Then for many years I bred any discus I cdould get my hands on and became quite busy with my hobby.
But since I have moved house and sold off my many tanks and have just kept one display in the house.
This tank is 8'x 2'x2.5'.
This tank is also plumbed to drainage via overflows and is topped up automatically vai a tap timer from outside the house.
I have the tank planted these days with only a small number of discus which have bred successfully a few times in the community situation.
Their tank mates are guppies which were to provide a source of live food when they bred but it seems my discus are to lazy to chase guppy fry.
There are a couple of cory's,bristlenose cats aswell as a smallish sailfin pleco to keep the tank looking tidy.
So overall this tank is uber low maintainance which suits my lifestyle atm as the kids have me chasing after them these days.
Wil I get bak into breeding again???
dunno?
Thanks for reading my rant :)
Stumbled across this place a little while ago and have been lurking since.
So I thight it was about time to join and say hi.
A bit about myself.
I have been keeping fish since I was a youngster then about 20 years ago I started to get somewhat serious about breeding not only fish but tanks aswell it seemed.
Then of course came discus.
Soon I had a fish room(converted garage) with about 50-60 tanks all plumbed with overflows and connected to both drainage and to my heated water stoarage/filtering tanks.The room heated by two wall furnaces,two just incase one died.
Then for many years I bred any discus I cdould get my hands on and became quite busy with my hobby.
But since I have moved house and sold off my many tanks and have just kept one display in the house.
This tank is 8'x 2'x2.5'.
This tank is also plumbed to drainage via overflows and is topped up automatically vai a tap timer from outside the house.
I have the tank planted these days with only a small number of discus which have bred successfully a few times in the community situation.
Their tank mates are guppies which were to provide a source of live food when they bred but it seems my discus are to lazy to chase guppy fry.
There are a couple of cory's,bristlenose cats aswell as a smallish sailfin pleco to keep the tank looking tidy.
So overall this tank is uber low maintainance which suits my lifestyle atm as the kids have me chasing after them these days.
Wil I get bak into breeding again???
dunno?
Thanks for reading my rant :)