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Post by Paul K on May 4, 2018 5:23:09 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 5:34:37 GMT -8
Looks gorgeous. If keeping Discus is demanding, then sw is ultra demanding.
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Post by Paul K on May 4, 2018 5:51:50 GMT -8
Looks gorgeous. If keeping Discus is demanding, then sw is ultra demanding. Indeed it is. |
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Post by nomihoudai on May 4, 2018 5:58:09 GMT -8
I used to have 7 fish tanks during my teens and I actually wanted to become a professional Ichthyologist. I'm glad that I never pursued that path. Lol. I never had discus as they were way out of my price range back then, but I did have a Piranha too, and I enjoyed to keep freshwater shrimp. The Piranha was killed by a goldfish. It didn't eat it, and then the water turned stale because of the high metabolism of the gold fish.
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Post by lordpandarus on May 4, 2018 7:01:23 GMT -8
I used to have tropical fish and even some of these Turquoise discus. In the end it's too much of a hassle, messy and costs too much money so I scrapped that hobby a long time a go Oh my preferred group of fish was Rainbow fishes from the Australian region ,some of them rivaled salt water fishes in terms of color. here's a picture of one of my tanks about 30 years ago. They were *trying* to breed  |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 10:08:58 GMT -8
Discus are more demanding than a marine tank.
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Post by Paul K on May 4, 2018 11:55:22 GMT -8
Discus are more demanding than a marine tank. I agree, salt water fish are quite easy to keep alive but corals especially small polyp stony coral that is a totally different level. In order to have them survive and grow the water must be kept always in best condition, everything must be perfectly balanced. |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 12:56:40 GMT -8
I have a FOWLR. I don't have the guts to try SPS or discus.
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Post by SoCalMountainman on May 4, 2018 15:26:49 GMT -8
Traded all my fish in for a wife...... big mistake!
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Post by Paul K on May 4, 2018 15:28:38 GMT -8
I have a FOWLR. I don't have the guts to try SPS or discus. Start with mushroom corals and then LPS, the only problem is not all fish can be together with corals as they feed on them. |
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Post by lordpandarus on May 4, 2018 16:35:21 GMT -8
Discus are more demanding than a marine tank. It' s weird I had a few discus live a year or 2 and even eat dried flake food . Most other ones just withered and died within a few weeks or months . They usually stop eating (even frozen food) than just waste away. I'm not sure what I did right or wrong in one case or another All i know is the tap water here is probably way too hard and alcaline to keep them . Trying to change it to soft/acidic in a consistent manner is very diffcult and does more harm than good trying to constantly adjust it |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 19:40:58 GMT -8
They need soft water and it must be pristine. Daily water changes. A friend of mine that owned a pet store said if you keep them under 88 degrees F then you are freezing them to death. This makes perfect sense since they inhabit the shallow pools and tributaries of the Amazon. Shallow water heats up quick and lots of decaying plant matter makes the water acidic.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 20:08:28 GMT -8
I figure since we have fish then I can post a photo of my latest acquisition that I got yesterday. He is a Great Basin Gopher snake.  |
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Post by mothman27 on May 9, 2018 13:38:54 GMT -8
I just got these a few days ago... who knows what they are? Silver Dollar Fish? Yours have a lot of red though. |
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Post by bichos on May 9, 2018 19:32:17 GMT -8
Those are red belly piranhas fo sure
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