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I would say an aging bin is a good investment. I got a big bin (it says 120L, but i think it's more lie 90-100 for $36) and just put a heater and pond pump with a large, thick hose about 4m long to reach all the tanks. After I've emptied the tank I put the hose in the tank and turn the pump on. When that's finished I fill the aging bin up again, and the process is repeated the next day. Much better than lugging buckets and im sure the fish enjoy the water going in at the same temp (if not slightly lower).

I'd say to be safe, remove it when using algaecides. I used to use carbon back in the day, but after a month took it out (as recommended) and then couldn't be bothered replacing it. Since then the water in my tank has been crystal clear without it so it's not a necessity.

http://www.discusforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10765 You may have to become a member to see the pics, but that doesn't take long.

Bubble walls are basically for viewing pleasure, although they do create surface agitation which lets oxygen diffuse into the water (giving the fish oxygen to breathe with). If you have a filter or something else that upsets the water surface you won't need the bubbler.

Wow, it's so realistic, reminds me of that stream behind New World. Good work Caryl!

You could also have two pairs in there (I reckon you could) without too many problems, just like hands said, hiding places are essential as these guys tend to get angry.

Don't think he's being mean timtam, I think he just means to see how the tank fills out.

That looks really nice timtam At the mo I'm down to 1 165L tank running with two sponge filters, barebottom with 7 discus, 3 bn, 3 oto's. Have another A. bitaeniata species tank (135L) with a pair in it with just a sponge filter.

I think the longfinned ram looks gross, looks very unnatural. Small extensions may look nice, but I'm with alan on this one.

Ok people, come on... Afrikan, some pics of your A.sp.orangstreifen please; jordan, some pics of your nijsseni; Alan, do you have any pics of your steidnarchneri when you bred them? Amazonian, have you got any pics of your new apisto's? And caserole, inka's, bitae's, hongsloi's??? I'm sure there are a lot more of you out there too...

The sink, and disperse out just like bbs, but you can feed out more at a time because they replicate so damn quickly. These will be needed for when the ram fry are newborn as bbs is too big for them. What you could do if you have a problem with them going all over the tank is mix the worms or bbs with water and suck them into a syringe, then spray them right next to the fry so they don't have to search as far for them.

Another option of course are fish of the genus Apistogramma. We have quite a few species available in NZ and they're very pretty and interesting fish. Try doing a google search on A. agassizii, A. cacatuoides, A. panduro. These seem to be the most common at the moment. There are some A. hongsloi, A. viejita and A. macmasteri coming in soon so check them out too.

I would think 2 weeks should do the trick.

Cool stuff Quack. If you want to keep the maximum amount of CO2 in your tank you will need the minimum amount of surface agitation possible. I would recommend you using the spraybar, and having it halfway down the tank with the flow facing the glass.

The ovipositor is the fishes private parts :lol: have a look where they should be It will remain "out" for a short while after they spawn, then it goes back in where it came from

Who told you that? Wild discus are the ultimate discus

woah! they're so tiny! good work mincie, they look awesome.

what a cool picture, they sure are cute. Are all those eggs from one turtle? looks like there's a lot there, how long are they?

well that makes sense

Is her ovipositor sticking out? If it is that would be a good sign to say they've spawned. The skininess is also a good sign too. It is quite likey that she ate the eggs since it was her first spawn (quite possibly). The male would be hassling her for doing this and chasing her around because of it. Keep feeding them on live and frozen foods and they should spawn again in 1-2 weeks, keeping them full should also hopefully prevent them from eating their spawn.

Maybe germany imported them from south america.

I've fed capsicum before to my bn and they ate it much faster than they did with the cucumber.

Great stuff! cool pictures too, looks like they're doing the deed 8) I would try if you can to take the bns out, but only if it's not too much trouble. Don't add white spot cure to the tank, that is only for artificially raising fry to stop the eggs from fungussing. They don't fungus when with the parents because they keep aerated water constantly flowing over the eggs. The eggs will hatch above 6, I don't know who told you this, but they're wrong (mine were in about 6.4) If you can, leave a small light quite far way, only just showing the eggs lightly (just enough for her to see something coming), but if you don't have one, don't worry about it (they don't have lights in the wild to stop predators, so they'll figure something out). Try not to do a water change until the fry are free swimming, as you wouldn't really want them stressing from a change in water parameters (if this occurs during your water changes, not sure). If you get your fry free swimming, just ask more questions then reguarding feeding, water changes, etc. and don't forget frequent updates with PICS

I wouldn't clean out the fluval just yet, as it is already a cycled filter, so will help clean things up in the discus tank. You can never have too much filtration, so the more the better, just make sure the current isn't too much for the fish. Having two filters is good because it means you can stagger the cleaning so there's always beneficial bacteria in one of them.

If the parents do spawn, just watch their behaviour, with the fish having not much space to swim away, they might kill them. Moving them to the bigger tank would be cool, and would most likely allow a few to survive to adulthood (would be the strongest ones too, which is good). Yip, if the conditions are sweet I don't see any reason why they wouldn't start spawning again.