Ove the past 2 days I have been setting up my 72 gallon bowfront for my discus. I took pictures to show ya'll the transformation.

In this picture I'm draining the tank and will be removing the blue rocks.


For the substrate I'm using Seachem's flourite black sand. Like the Moon sand I dumped the two bags of sand into a 5 gallon bucket and rinsed it untill the water ran clear.



Once the sand was rinsed I used my hands and scooped the sand into the tank. I did something that I thought was cool. I left the center empty and took natural looking rocks and made a path running up the center. I put a plate in the center so the water wouldn't disturb the rocks and sand.



Once the tank was filled I started planting. I only have a few plants because I want those plants to have a chance to grow and spread out.


.

I let the tank cycle over night. To speed up the process I used 3 filters from the 55g discus tank and the rocks I used came from the tank as well. I put the discus in last night and everyone is doing great I'll post pics later tonight.

Nice start! Good looking tank. Looking forward to seeing the discus in there.

Looks great so far. Looking forward to seeing more pics.

Nice, good work Mike!

Looks like it's going to be a great looking set up. Keep us updated.

Nice. Can't wait to see the discus.

Thanks guys! I have pics of the discus just need o upload them onto photobucket when I get home from work.

Like I promised here they are!

Those are some awesome looking wish.

Nice Mike!

nice lookin discus

Very nice looking fish. How's everyone getting along?

Nice looking fish, Mike. A lot of fish in there not normally suggested as companions for discus. Have they been with the discus in the past? Curious how it's worked out.

WYite

Yes everyone has been in there for over a year and I haven't had any issues. The Angels adopted the 3 bigger discus when they were smaller.

Nice. Just more support for the contention that ya don't have to follow the status quo and "canned" rules to be successful.

Again, nice fish, nice tank, I like the variety in that set-up.

WYite

Nice the discus, black skirts, and gourami look great!!

Thank you!

Now i just need to save up for a light!

Mike D wrote:

Thank you!

Now i just need to save up for a light!

Your welcome, yeah A light would look good!

OMG...I am drooling over here!!! Very nice I love the Discus!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you! I got 4 of them from poppops on AC

Sweet Mike! They all look awesome!

i have a several pair and i feed them frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp and beefhearts .i do one water change a week and have mechanical filtration and a airstone with full gravel bottom and they thrive. i dont do anything special and have had them forever and a day just keep the water at a constant temp 88 for breeding and 84 for community.you shouldnt have any problems

Only once a week wc! I do 3 wc a week because I have alot of fish in there. Right now I have only 1 AC110 running because the other one is broken. I'm waiting on a new quick disconect for my XP3 so I can put that back on.

I feed mine Hikira freez dried bloodworms and Hikira discus food. My tank is temp runs at 84, I need to add an extra heater to bump it up to 88 if I want them to breed.

your tank looks great mike ! yes once a week .i started over a year ago with 30 percent changes every other day and got them down to once a week and they have been with once a week for about 7 months now. again nice tank and fish for sure love it

Mike;

Nice looking tank. Where did you get your discus? Mail Order or LFS?

Jim