The 700 gal indoor sunken garden project

[medicineman]

@laura,
In fact, these discus do lay eggs more often than I think.
Just several days away ever since they are back to beg for bloodworm, the couple kind of disappear again behind the forest of echinodorus leaves. Well, kind of, as one of the parent would still come out to be hand-fed. Nursering couple still needs to eat anyhow.



I managed to take decent shot of the juvenille discus :




Lately I found a bulb just like my old, burnt one.
I decided of getting rather bored by the existing orange bulb and take the greenish-white bulb home. The effect is just like before : white with strong tint of green and blue. A matter of personal preference, people may like or dislike the change. But I assure you my plants appreciate both.

Here is a full front shot, taken in late evening



To the back center part of the tank (fills up space to the right of green limnophila aquatica until left of the broad leaved echinodorus marble queen), not well seen due to dimmer lighting and dark leaves colour is my giant echinodorus rubin.
This species indeed is not a joke as it reached massive full size of 50+ leaves, almost the size of a small racket each.

[Northern_Wind]

Wow. That is stunning.

[legomaniac89]

.............

This is me right now -->

Truly, absolutely, incredibly amazing. Awesome job.

[boltp777]

i cant imagine actually having this. this is a masterpiece and should like be open to the public $$$

[Coral Keeper]

WOW!! AMAZING tank!!

[lauraleellbp]

Those are gorgeous discus! I think they're a really lovely choice for your tank- they show off in there very nicely, and I'm sure they're in Heaven!

How large are those fry, now? (It's hard to tell from the pic)

[Torpedobarb]

this tank is crazy.. I had to pick my jaw up off of the floor

[medicineman]

@laura,
I have not spot any fry yet. But the fish does still nurse the eggs yesterday or so.

@boltp777,
Our public aquarium display should try harder. Not only featuring fish, but display them as in true or enhanced habitat.
I agree that they should make something like this
Kiddos and adult would love it.

Here is a pic from side



You can spot one of the non breeding, brown/orange based discus

[yikesjason]

Amazing discus. You just can't do anything without doing the best. I also really like the light color. I also prefer the blue/green light over the yellow/red light.

[boltp777]

yeah i mean like thats what i hate about public aquariums i love saltwater but i love planted tanks even more so i think they should display fish in their natural habitat like you said it makes it much better when i went to the aquarium thats why i was disappointed not one planted tank! now what is your dosing regiment?

[medicineman]

@bolt,
They clearly needs someone out from the crowd such as this forum. Consultation and tutorials. It cant be much more expensive or difficult having 3 or 4 of such setups in a public aquarium center.

Anyway, fert regime wise, I do daily dose very lightly of liquid fertilizer (12-15 pumps of macro+ and 8-10 pumps of micro+) and jab in root tabs every 3 months or so.

[timleete]

strait up probly the best tank/pond iv ever seen

just wondering what dimentions it it.

[medicineman]

I forgot the exact measurement myself, but you will probably can find it at the front pages.

Here are more of the discus shot I managed to get :

Not all of the blue-green discus formed good colouring. Here is an example of how the younger one at the right still retains quite a lot of the stress bar and of less colouring


The other one with formed colour, but more obvious stress bar


One of the lone, natural colour discus


The couple


My greedy and tamed anglefish (yes, you can stroke and hand-feed it)

[Starálfur]

WOW that angel!! I love it, where did you find it? I'd love to have a half black/gold one like that...

[SeaSerpant]

Just a question. How do you hand feed your fish? Do you put blood worms inbetween your fingers or something?
btw.... AWESOME TANK!!!!