makemineirish
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Jan 13, 2012
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I am in the process of simultaneously and slowly stocking two decent sized aquariums. In the past, I have been an anal retentive biotope aquarist and eschewed popular choices in favor of more esoteric ones (Indian mudskipper community with brackish tankmates and a tidal flow anyone?).
This time around, I am embracing the chaos (in a controlled, anal retentive fashion). Both the 150 and 220 are planned out as the ever popular, but unattempted by me, planted community discus tanks. I am keeping both at similar water parameters and stocking slowly.
While both are intended to house discus, the majority of tankmates will be different in each as I am not trying to reproduce the same community. Rather, I want the freedom to move fish between tanks if necessary and hope to get by with a single 36g, bare-bottom quarantine/spawning/growth tank.
It's not biotope and not purist. I am hoping to experiment a bit with what are considered acceptable tankmates for discus. I don't intend to challenge any of the proven water parameters for the various fish. Rather, I am attempting to shed my purist principles and be moderately open-minded to species found on other continents with like requirements.
I stumbled onto this thread while googling for others' anecdotal experience to serve as a springboard for my own research. I registered to share a tidbit of information and ended up actually including details in my profile.
This time around, I am embracing the chaos (in a controlled, anal retentive fashion). Both the 150 and 220 are planned out as the ever popular, but unattempted by me, planted community discus tanks. I am keeping both at similar water parameters and stocking slowly.
While both are intended to house discus, the majority of tankmates will be different in each as I am not trying to reproduce the same community. Rather, I want the freedom to move fish between tanks if necessary and hope to get by with a single 36g, bare-bottom quarantine/spawning/growth tank.
It's not biotope and not purist. I am hoping to experiment a bit with what are considered acceptable tankmates for discus. I don't intend to challenge any of the proven water parameters for the various fish. Rather, I am attempting to shed my purist principles and be moderately open-minded to species found on other continents with like requirements.
I stumbled onto this thread while googling for others' anecdotal experience to serve as a springboard for my own research. I registered to share a tidbit of information and ended up actually including details in my profile.