Welcome to my Discus

We recently became interested in discus because they looked amazing in aquarium shops. So we bought four them and put them in our new tank:the AR980. We then started researching about discus and discovered that they were apparently very high maintenance fish! HOwever, so far we have found them to be quite hardy and great pets.


We wanted to create a planted discus tank and this is what our first attempt looked like...

It looked ok for a while but the plants slowly began to die (and were being eaten by 3 Platys that we had in the tank with the discus). So we began to research about the needs of underwater plants. We spoke to many aquarium shop staff and received varied advice we searched the web and were inspired by the work of Takashi Amano (www.aquariumdesigngroup.com).
We are now beginning take 2 of our planted discus aquarium and have included what we have done to help out anyone who wants to give it a go as well.