Hello Welcome, Sepia0203

[Art]

Welcome to ScapeCrunch, @Sepia0203!
We would love to get to know you. Please tell us about yourself. What tank do you have?

 

[Sepia0203]

Hi Art, thanks for welcoming me to this forum.

I’ve been a fish nerd since I was a kid. Spent my childhood in Japan surrounded by every possible freshwater ecosystems.

I’m back into fish keeping after a decade. Was very inspired by takeshi amano’s discus aquascaping I believe he had in his early days. So I’m currently taking up the challenge to raise some young discus in a moderately planted tank.

Cheers,
Mark

 

[Koan]

Beautiful! Is this your first discus tank?

Keeping young growing discus healthy with a planted substrate can be a real challenge. If you have questions or get into trouble, you can find help here, and here

 

[Naturescapes_Rocco]

Awesome tank!

 

[Sepia0203]

Beautiful! Is this your first discus tank?

Keeping young growing discus healthy with a planted substrate can be a real challenge. If you have questions or get into trouble, you can find help here, and here

Hi Koan, yeah it’s my first discus and large tank (450L).

The substrate certainly gets messy with all the feeding haha, so I try to siphon out what I can each week with the water change.
Thanks for the links as well. Simply discus has been one of the resources I occasionally read!

 

[Koan]

Right? Substrate really holds onto waste, which constantly increases the bacterial load in the water, dragging on their immune systems, burning calories and slowing growth

To grow the brightest, plumpest fish possible, you are really going to benefit from a minimum of two, if not three or more 50% to 80% water changes a week

The water change cha-cha is by far the biggest challenge with discus
But once you get it down, you're golden