OK so i moved some fish tanks on and bought myself an aquaone 980T with the intentions on doing a planted discus tank

Here it is a couple days after setup.
Just plain black gravel. running twin sponge filters and the built in overhang filter

couple days later i added some guppy fry from my prolific breeders to cycle the tank

2 weeks later in went the plants, driftwood and an eheim 2213

theres only one spot where i could fit the eheim tubing through so i had to extend the intake tubing and run it along the back. hopefully the plants will cover it sooner or later

and also this little guy. its a calico bristlenose but its different than normal due to the lack of dark brown patches

that was 1 week ago. Yesterday i added these

German Blue Ram pair (i think)



The German Blue Ram female?


Balloon Blue Ram


Neon Blue Ram



And lastly what im hoping is a pair of Checkerboard Cichlids (they looked like a pair at LFS)


Checkerboard Male

Great set up Karl and some stunning fish, love the neon blue ram.

Your German blue rams certainly look like a pair the female appears to have the blue dot's/sheen on her side black marking and also to have the black in the pelvic fins.

Added a pair of apistogramma cacatuoides triple red today. Pics will follow when they settle in and decide to show themselves

Good news. Came hm tonight to the female German Blue Ram fanning bunch of eggs in a little ditch they have dug in the front left hand corner of the tank.

Congratulations Karl, I guess that confirms how good the set up is

looking good mate!!

Little buggers ate the eggs

yeah, mine did that all the time. Only got to wrigglers a few time

work on the water parameters a bit and they will reward you and I shall buy some of the babies

nah Doug i doubt the fry would survive too long with all those hungry mouths eyen em off.

Ok now i purchased what i thought to be a pair of apistogramma cacatuoides triple red (pretty sure they are) on sunday and they have finally got comfortable enough to venture out and about so i snapped a pic for yas

Beautiful Karl, Well done, They are a pair of Tripple Reds , nice ones too, Congrats..The tank is stunning...Oh and the rams will have trouble bringing up any surviving bubs as the others will be too much for them..
I suggest a separate tank for breeding them...

Thats ok Mooo im not really planning on rearing any young in the tank. If they breed and any survive then that would be good but i dont care.

Now for the good news....

I GOT DISCUS!!!

Heres a pic of em acclimatising in the bag. Not the best pic but it will do until they settle and i can get some good shots. Theres 5 pidgeon bloods and 3 blue diamond x pidgeon blood. they are still small @ 5-6cm so they havnt full coloured up yet. the breeder told me that should happen in about seven weeks



I know that the younger discus are supposed to be more finicky than the adults but im confident that i can keep up with water changes and well fed until they are decent sizes

Great tank!
Those Discus are pretty even now
Everyone told me juvies would be delicate but mine jumped right in and started eating the second day and haven't quit yet
carol

Very nice setup!!

Can't wait to see the adult colouring on those discus. They get such beautiful patterns. Do you know if any are male or female or is it too early to tell?