My Simple Discus Tank

[elseamarine]

Very Bare,do you guys think it's ugly????????

[Jervis]

It's definitely not ugly... and the emptiness of it will probably enable you to maintain the tank much better for your Discus' health. But again, the tank can evolve overtime with addition of plants at a later stage.

[elseamarine]

It's definitely not ugly... and the emptiness of it will probably enable you to maintain the tank much better for your Discus' health. But again, the tank can evolve overtime with addition of plants at a later stage.

Thanks bro jervis

You are precisely right....
I really would love to have planted tank with discus but have checked with some expert in keeping discus........
Maintaining plant and keeping discus together is not so easy......
In the end ,end up with a setup you see in the picture.......

[stormchild]

i think your tank will look good with several discus. what's the size of the tank?

[quix]

U can get a very nice discus tank without plants too. Think along the lines of a biotope setup. It will be made up of some driftwood, overhanging branches, white sand substrate. Can even throw in some ketapang leaves for the leaf litter effect.

[elseamarine]

i think your tank will look good with several discus. what's the size of the tank?

Yes ,already bought 5 adult discus /still in the farm

Tank size L30" x B23" x Ht30"

[elseamarine]

U can get a very nice discus tank without plants too. Think along the lines of a biotope setup. It will be made up of some driftwood, overhanging branches, white sand substrate. Can even throw in some ketapang leaves for the leaf litter effect.

Hi learn something new 'biotope' setup.......

I recalled seeing many such natural scene in discovery channel/documentary about the amazon river.......

[Jervis]

Yes creating biotope for your fish will be admirable... worth trying

[elseamarine]

Yes creating biotope for your fish will be admirable... worth trying

will tryout and update with you guys,thks a lot for all the feedback

[psp1000]

ya keeping discus is not that easy, especially when you need to mantain the plants and the discus together. It best to have bare tank but sometime too bare look too awful. Mine was a 4ft tank with just few plants tie on driftwood etc..

[trident]

One of the main reason discus tank are bare is the ease of changing water/cleaning routine. Most people feed them with beef heart which foul up the water pretty quick and water are changed 2 or 3 times weekly. Many do daily water change. It can be quite a chore, that's why the water changing routine has to be as easy as possible.

[illumnae]

ya keeping discus is not that easy, especially when you need to mantain the plants and the discus together. It best to have bare tank but sometime too bare look too awful. Mine was a 4ft tank with just few plants tie on driftwood etc..

Actually, keeping discus in planted tanks are easy. Many others on this forum have done so successfully. You just have to adapt your thinking away from the mass breeders' mentality of having the fish grow super fast. Feeding of beefheart, 100% water changes frequently, bare tanks etc are all the "tricks of the trade" for breeders. If you intention is to enjoy the regal beauty of the discus in a lushly planted environment, simply buy adult discus (to avoid stunting. If youdon't mind your discus maxing out at 4 inches, you can get juveniles too) and ensure that the surroundings are not dark (e.g. don't have black oyama with a bare ADA soil foreground...black oyama with a lush hairgrass foreground is ok) and that's it. Aside from that, you may just treat the discus as any other fish. I've kept discus in a high tech planted tank using EI fertilization as well as in a low tech planted tank with no fertilization at all...no issues at all.