Sick Discus

Huston we have a problem....

Phew !!

Well a big thankyou to the guys at Seaview and Briggsy for your recommendation. After mass planting out our tank, putting new life-glo tubes in and 5 siamese algae eaters, our tank has been restored.

we only had a few blades of Glosso left, luckily it is on its way back !

Ahhhh Algae...

After installing the new light 8x39 watts we seem to have upset the balance...

Becuase now we have a major Algae problem.



Seaview recommended we reduce the amount of light and get lower Kelin tubes. Im pretty sure the ones that come with the light are 20,000K so we will look at getting some 5,000 to 10,000K tubes. (apparentky 20,000K are better suited to Marine...whoops!)

Eheim is in... well sort of

After having some issues with water clarity, we have decided to upgrade the built in AR980 filter to an external Eheim canister filter... that... and we want to get a metal halide light which won't fit with the old trickle filter..


As you can see we havn't fitted the Ehiem properly yet... just waiting for the good bacteria to be transfered to the new filter. Give it a week or two.

We have also read that Trickle filters introduce lots of oxygen into the water, which is fine, however in teh process it also gets rid of a lot of co2.

Updated Photos

Well here it is, our AquaOne 980 as it now stands.

btw there are Discus in there somewhere... they are still getting use to their new environment. a little different from the 55lt Bucket!

Stage 10 - Lighting

Now that the CO2 was cranking and the plants were taking off (except the ***) we decided to upgrade our fluro tubes. Not really sure this helped because now the tank looks darker.

This is becuase there are three Fluro tubes in the AquaOne light hood. 2 x 30w and 1 x 25w T8 fluro. And since you cant get a shorter pink 25w fulro, we had to get a 30w pink tube, a 25w PowerGlow and a 30w PowerGlow white.

Now that we have"been there, done that" we wouldn't buy the AquaOne 980. Simply because for a planted aquarium the lights are not adequate. Our fine leafed plants **** are browning off a couple of inches from the top.

We are now looking at getting the AquaOne MG1000 Metal Halide light.... problem with this is it won't fit with the built in Trickle filter... so we will need to buy a new canister filter too... proberbly get the Eheim 2028 so we can use it with our next tank..