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[discusonly]

Originally Posted by joon

HAHA i moved out from my parents house
5mins away from sugarhouse and penslanding drinking every night :P
i visit my fishroom once a week and do waterchange stuff
i can see my inventory getting bigger
now i have about 20 indians 30 tigers 50 crs 50 snowball 100 yellow for trade (1/2inch ~ berried mix
i want to trade them with cories good strain guppies and plants later

i put 2 yellows and 9 oebt in 55gal tank few months ago, now i see over 100 yellows and about 18 oebt lol







oops ... i have empty tanks ... my fishroom is closed until i come back home

Are those PRL? Nice.. look like you got it going now.

[joon]

mines are regular CRS from kangshiang


Master VAN
if i want to start a tank with 8~10 discus in living room,
is 50gal tank enough or should i go with 75gal?
i can use eheim 2217 and a heater

and are u selling discus fry too???

[discusonly]

Originally Posted by joon

mines are regular CRS from kangshiang


Master VAN
if i want to start a tank with 8~10 discus in living room,
is 50gal tank enough or should i go with 75gal?
i can use eheim 2217 and a heater

and are u selling discus fry too???

Those are very nice for not being PRL.

What size discus?
What's the dimension of the tank?
You are better off using HOB filter such as Aquaclear and add 1-2 sponge filter.
Are you going to have substrate?
Planted?

I don't currently have any discus fry but in the process of putting the pairs back together and let them spawn again. I am not really into breeding them anymore except for request. I've shut down and converted a few of my discus tanks into CRS.

If you are going to get into discus, be prepare to do daily water changes unless you are get adults.

[Aheartlessfish]

drools...

[Fishies_in_Philly]

jimmy, you have regular tigers?

[Fishies_in_Philly]

ya know, i thought i heard crickets chirping in here, then i just realized it was my frog tank instead...lol

[Fishies_in_Philly]

Originally Posted by discusonly

Those are very nice for not being PRL.

What size discus?
What's the dimension of the tank?
You are better off using HOB filter such as Aquaclear and add 1-2 sponge filter.
Are you going to have substrate?
Planted?

Van, i am curious as to why you say an HOB or sponge filter are better. is it because they oxygenate the water better than a canister? and if so, can he use the eheim and just add a gimmicky bubble wall or something?

[KingPlakat]

Originally Posted by Fishies_in_Philly

ya know, i thought i heard crickets chirping in here, then i just realized it was my frog tank instead...lol

It's upsetting how dead this forum is sometimes haha...I'm about to PM rachel and see if she can meet me somewhere in philly this friday. I really want some pygmy cories and saving 15 on shipping would be great.

The next question is....15 or 20 cories? I know the larger the shoal the better they school, but you think the difference between 15 and 20 will be noticable?

[Fishies_in_Philly]

depends on the size of the tank really. obviously, in a 75g, you wouldn't notice a 5 fish difference, but in a 40, i think you would.

[KingPlakat]

Originally Posted by Fishies_in_Philly

depends on the size of the tank really. obviously, in a 75g, you wouldn't notice a 5 fish difference, but in a 40, i think you would.

True...they'll likely go in either my 30 or one of the 40 breeders. I don't want to put them in the 75 because I feel like the SAE might pick on them and eat any eggs/babies that might come about. Plus feeding them in a 30 or 40 will be much easier because they'll be with guppies eating any leftover BBS or detritus.

[Fishies_in_Philly]

i would definitely go for 20. in fact, i don't buy any schooling fish in less than groups of 20 normally. but remember, i have mostly big tanks....lol

[discusonly]

Originally Posted by Fishies_in_Philly

Van, i am curious as to why you say an HOB or sponge filter are better. is it because they oxygenate the water better than a canister? and if so, can he use the eheim and just add a gimmicky bubble wall or something?

Bill,

A couple of reasons.

1. HOB such as the aquaclear has a lot of space for biomedia and they are relatively cheap.
2. They are easy to stop/start. Most discus keeper changes at least 50% of the tank water daily so when using a cannister filter, it's a PITA to restart.
3. What you don't see isn't necesarrily not there. Cannister filters are usually neglected most often (as far as cleaning goes). With a HOB filter, the sponge can be taken out a rinse quite easily without taking things apart. With a cannister, take it part enough and the seal rings will need replacing.
4. Sponge filter are great bio filter. Discus keeper don't care for the mechanical filtering because poop are vac up during water changes. With extra sponge filter, one can set up a QT or hospital tank by moving established sponge to the tank.

[discusonly]

Originally Posted by Fishies_in_Philly

ya know, i thought i heard crickets chirping in here, then i just realized it was my frog tank instead...lol

Between work and getting ready to start another rehab project, there isn't enough hours in a day.

[joon]

i bred tigers however half of them have no stirpes lol

Steven u missed that fish place's 30% sale

they were selling $.70 each

[KingPlakat]

Originally Posted by joon

i bred tigers however half of them have no stirpes lol

Steven u missed that fish place's 30% sale

they were selling $.70 each

Those B*******! I specifically signed up to have them email me when they got more pygmy's in stock. At $.70 each I would have bought everything they had!