newbie woes

[BigDaddyAdo]

You will find that they will settle in faster if you add a few more.

The UV will only help with free floating algae and will slow the flow rate of the filter a little. Personally I wouldn't bother.

[Priscacara]

The uv isnt part of the main filter, its a stand alone unit. When my eheim started playing up I went for a fluval fx5, not even sure a uv can be fitted to those but if so it would be a pond size I would think and way outside my affordability.

I'd love to be able to add some more discus just now but I could only afford 6cm size and they would be too small for the tank, best I could do would be 1 new one next weekend but was trying not to add them 1 at a time. Mostly for agression but I doubt that would be a problem just now.

A ray of light finally last night with all 3 coming out and doing the cichlid dance and stare of come feed me. They stayed out but went to the back of the tank then came forward a bit to eat so things are looking up a bit for me .