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No I haven't mate doesn't really interest me to be honest.

Depends on brand and size best just to have a look about mate. Devotedly discus are who I go to for everything as all their equipment is specific to keeping discus and they're cheap too.

Same man my water is hard! I buy ro from the shop bit annoying carrying it up four stories to my flat but I'm gunna buy my own RO unit when I get my own place :)

Hi iowaguy they are blue cobalt keep searching the web and reading every article and watching every video and then watch them all again lol discus can be hard but not once you get the basics right I'm here to help if you got anything specific you can't work out. The key is loads of water changes...

The female is the one with the black bars because the male wants some naughties! But she's got a headache lol.

Il take some now

Congrats man! Il be waiting for the pic! Just got my breeding pair today check them out. Post called joeys new setup breeding discus.

Me too! I will keep posted on success or no success lol settling in very well though!

Finally got the bad boys!!! Actually love em they are huge! Been in the tank about four hours and showing signs of spawning already! Pics of eggs to come :)

Picking up the bad boys on Wednesday upload a pic when they're in then after that just waiting the arrival of the eggs :)

Anyone still following got some updates ready to go

Tank is now split left for babies and right for the parents/breeding pair now just waiting to get my babies :) shall I get Penang eruption discus or electric dream???

Here's a pic with the lights off and led spotlight on :) Oh and fergot to say seven weeks now and still no water changes and still testing big fat 0's

Took out some wood and separated the wood and plants from the breeding cone ready for the divider to go in :) just waiting for lights to flick off then gunna upload pic of spotlight too :)

Got the white acrylic cutting and fitting it tomorrow! Came up with a good idea so that the white background will also fold into a divider to split the tank in two to keep the fry and parents seperate when needed :) also got the LED spotlight :)

thanks man! Most of the beauty is in the filtration but I've tried my best to keep it kinda in between what the discus want when breeding and what I want to look at every day :) still few things I need to do first in the list is chuck the Amano shrimp in the sump because they're eating one of...

Ordered white background today and moonlight led spotlight so the babies can see there parents still in the night :)

New plants added few days ago need to pot them because no substrate but doesn't look too bad.

Problem solved I've adopted the method used when potting pond plants doesn't look too bad actually :)

I have a discus breeding setup which I am leaving bare bottom no substrate! Is there any plants which I can just dump in and have the roots straight on the glass which will still grow???

I have a 240 litre tank with a sump and a 300 litre canister filter then finally a uv sterilizer made for a 600l tank when it comes to uv more is better and there is no limit apart from when it comes to fitting it under your cabinet lol. Search on Google for the stages of uv sterilization you...

Lovely lovely tank my friend! Nice healthy looking discus too! Mum changing mine to a planted again just as soon as I finish breeding the little buggers to make a bit of money :) hoping they will pay for new lighting co2 system and all the plants for the re-scape! What filtration have you got...

quick question especially to hobgob and other discus breeders. Is the only reason why soo many water changes are needed when keeping and especially breeding discus simply to keep the ammonia nitrite and nitrates down???

Here we go four weeks no water changes and all results still absolutely zero!

Testing the water tomorrow wonder if the ammonia nitrite and nitrates will still be zero after nearly a month no water changes???