1st Tank

[Blybo]

Hi all,
Many thanks to all on this forum. It's a great read and I've learned heaps.

Below are photos of my tank (1st since I was a kid), and a couple of the inhabitants...

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Neil

[Blybo]

and a couple more...

[tlambert]

looks stunning you've done a great job

[discus000]

Nice tank.
:)

[Nathan]

looks great, great pictures aswel, i have 2 of the same PB's (the ones without peppering) they get quite nice as they get older, but i must say i do like the coloruings while there still young.

great lookn setup, need some more pics of the tank itself though

[nicholas76]

gday


nice setup mate IMG_1420.JPG great looking fish very diffrent :)

[aquafrogstuff]

Awesome driftwood.

Where did you get it?

[sammigold]

Very very nice looking set up!!!! Well done!

[aquartos]

Awesome setup... thanks for sharing...

[Ben]

Nice planted tank, thanks for the pics.

Feed the Pigeon blood discus lots of protein and vitamin rich foods.

[Blybo]

Awesome driftwood.

Where did you get it?

Bought the large piece at Coburg Aquarium, I live in Brunswick(Melbourne)so it is only 5 minutes away. Others with plants are from Subscape Richmond (100 metres from work :) )

[Blybo]

gday


nice setup mate IMG_1420.JPG great looking fish very diffrent :)

Thanks. I got this bloke from Subscape in Richmond. They called him a red tiger turq, don't know if this is a recognised strain or not.

They have just recently got an importers licence and have some amazing discus now, not cheap though :wink:

[Nathan]

and have some amazing discus now, not cheap though

they never are cheap :lol:

[nicholas76]

aah but subscape do have quality fish.

if any LFS is justified in those huge mark ups its subscape..

still to rich for my blood


if you could post more pics of that fish id really appreciate it thanks

[Blybo]

more photos as requested.

[Blybo]

and a few more

[Nathan]

i love the way youve arranged the plants around the drift wood an the big peice of java fern coming through the wood.

it looks tops good on ya

[Mulisha]

Well firstly holy smokes mate that's looking awersome should hold ya head high for being a first tank :shock:

Could i ask how muching lighting, fertlizers, size of tank,w/c,filters,plants etc

Sorry about all the questions but that tank is tops :wink:

[Blybo]

i love the way youve arranged the plants around the drift wood an the big peice of java fern coming through the wood.

it looks tops good on ya

Thanks Nathan,
just noticed you joined 1 day after me :lol: You've been a bit more active though :wink:

[Blybo]

Thanks for the kind words Rick. There have been a couple of small disasters along the way too :cry:

Tank is a copy of a Jebo 4 footer; 280 litres. I have 3x3 foot T8 triphospour globes (6200K fro m memory) on for 11 hours a day plus 2 blue led's to mimic moonlight(looks creepy 8-) ). Ferts are 25-28 drops of watleys liquid fert once a week ans 5ml of flourish excel every 2 days. w/c is 20% once or twice a fortnight as time permits (work plus spending time at gf's). Filtration is eheim canister 2217? and an eheim internal pick up(directed at rear glass). Plants are mostly swords and abubius plus some large java fern. I had a really nice red lotus but my kribs seemed to like it too :wink: . It's starting to grow back so hopefully all is not lost there.
I'm hopefully moving to a new house in about 6 weeks. The gf has said only 1 more tank, she has a 80 litre with mostly livebearers. I'm thinking about one of those 2m one's that Coburg Aquariums import :lol:

[Blybo]

Trying to post a larger format picture. What res do you guy's use? If I use 72dpi the photo is too small when reduced to 120K. Below is 50dpi.

[Mulisha]

Tank looks so much bigger then 280L looks like a 500L + it looks deep and long :shock:

Very nice driftwood 8-)

[pornsak]

Hi

I have the same kind of fish like you , I mean the pic. IMG_1417.JPG

Do you know what kind of this Discus

[Merrilyn]

Welcome to the forum. That fish is a pigeon blood strain. Sometimes called a pearl pigeon.

Would you like to post some pictures of your fish?

We'd love to see them.

[PJP]

nice setup
I really love the patterns on those tiger turqs
they look awesome
Peter