We chose to start the new tank fresh as we had major phosphate problems in the old tank. Apparently when your phosphorus levels are way off the chart then it is probably all bound up in your gravel. This is why we bought new gravel and we wanted a new look for the tank.
But first we had to move the discus out. So we drained the tank to about 15cm then caught the fish and moved them to a small 50L storage container on wheels. We also moved some of their gravel and the half dead plants so they would have somewhere to hide.
We bough a new tiny filter for this tank, because the discus will probably be there for a few weeks yet. It was reccommended to us that we put the AR-980 filter on top of this make shift tank so that the bacteria from this filter can set up in the new tiny filter. The AR980 filter was too long for the storage container so we bought a lenth of thick tubing from the aquarium shop and re-routed the output of the filter in to the storage container.
The older filter is slightly larger than the new filter....
We will leave the old filter on for about 1 week then the discus should be fine with the little filter (the discus spa) with regular water changes for a few weeks no problem.
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