Father/Son Discus Project

well, I went to aquarium adventures yesterday for the aqua clear swap(inferior brand traded for a brand NIB aqua clear of same size, catch, buy a small bottle of cycle, sure no problem lol.

got an ac20 and an ac50 for 16 bucks, had the old man with me and I took him to a local LFS that deals only in salt(sumps are their best friends) went and got the sump, carbon packs,overflow,hard line plumbing a few clamps ect to complete it.

here is is today, sump was washed and lowered in from the top due to double doors not single on the stand. it fits great. We installed that down low, ordered the heater, and filled the tank.

45g looks so much bigger then my 40g.

Here are three pics.
Tank


Sump


and sticker on sump


rated for 175g. he plans on going bigger already lol

 

it will have eco complete as a substrate.

I went around to a few LFS's for sumps(chains dont stock them around here, dont even stock SW fish so) and found that one rated UP TO fitting a 175g tank.

it cost 245 bucks, couldnt come near that buying at a store and didnt want to mess with this on mail order just incase because the tank has to be removed to get the sump in and out and after a few times that gets old, sump will run forever so now its in there till the tank comes down for good.

for under 700 bucks and all I need is substrate and livestock this went alot cheaper in store then it did on the net. The owner took the time(had 4 clerks there plus him) to answer a few technicals then got really really interested when he found out we just spent under 700 for a FW set up, he is coming over on his personal time to show my dad how the sump works exactly and install the overflow and plumbing, free.

I hope he likes what he see's because he made the comment, SW is too expensive to have exclusively and offer no FW items, I said, yeah AA is next door too, im sure you can beat their prices by far, I mean 8.99 for a freaking guppy, female.

we will see, I hope it works out for him. But this build is freakin sweet, I had to pass on going to another LFS 20 miles north of us because the wife is at work and kids were snoozing, sucks cause I am a member to that store and get 20% off livestock and 10% off dry goods.


Ok, this breeder is stating, BNP or RNP and the discus only, from what Ive read over the years of being in fish discus prefer the presence of smaller schooling tetras, is this correct?

Id love to have red and blue discus then about a dozen or two cardinals in there.

 

sorry for the double post but that light makes the water appear blue, went in to look at the tank, it water is blue. guess being ice cold helps(checking for leaks)

 

parts pile


tank before seaview



after seaview and done for the night.





tomorrow, going to cement in the supply line to the overflow and posisition the tank, eco complete will be added and tank possibly filled, I kinda want to wait on the plant package to fill the tank but I can always get wet later.

 

discus wont be in for about 3 months, going to set it up and plant it, then more then likely use my danios or barbs for starters in there.

 

No they are going to be starter fish, not tank mates.

hearty fish that have cycled 5 tanks of mine now and are very healthy to start this one.

 

Lemon, your way is right to me, even my fry tanks arent barebottoms.

a glass coffin int natural but a planted glass coffin is sweetness.

update, pics to follow tomorrow
substrate is in, got a new t-5 ho light for it
(twin 6700K's at 39w each, good IMO) got a huge chunk of mopani for it today and started soaking it to get most the leaching done before it goes in and to give me some time before my plants arrive this week.

so spent another 340 bucks today on it, now its just fish that need to be purchased.

I am really thinking to toss either my barb gang or danio flock into there to cycle it out and then remove them when the discus get here.

good thing is I might get a O/U stand and start the guppy breeding hardcore again for a natural food supply and pets.

my female angel laid a clutch of eggs tonight, the male attempted to fert, then got sidetracked and got hungry, well now he is being held at bay in the far corner of the tank and she is fanning what is left, darn SAE's found the eggs and that was a big fight, two sae's on the female angel, she kicked some fin hard.

 

coralsea t-5 HO twin 36" 39ww 6700k bulbs.