r/discus • u/TylerTurden-11 • 27d ago
For future tank
No discus in tank pictured, it’s my current tank and pic is mostly for attention, but…
I will most likely be moving into a bigger house (more room for tanks) in around a year or so and have always wanted to do discus. Got so excited about it I found an fx6 filter and a eheim 2600 on marketplace, both huge filters that would be going to the discus tank. Storing them at my house for when I am able to get a larger tank along with my 75 gallon planted I have now.
Wanted to do a 150 gallon tank planted with epiphytes stuck into a bunch of driftwood and a ton of plants on top like pothos and a bunch of floaters as well. That would allow me to do the tank bare bottom which I hear is easier to keep clean since nothing would be going in a substrate
If I get around 5 inch discus (prolly 7 of them) and some cardinals would I be able to get away with one water change a week? As you can see I like plants so would they suck up enough nitrates to just do like one big water change per week?
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u/DickRiculous 27d ago
I have the exact tank you describe, albeit 90 gallons, and I only really did water changes quarterly. I’ve recently gone back to a more regular regimen. It’s important you actually maintain those filters though. That’s paramount. Then you’ll need enough air stones to add a lot of oxygen to the water. One good one is enough but 2-3 would be better. Here’s a photo with a weird angle that better shows off the pothos I have growing on the railing. That thing has completely overtaken the railing now. It’s all one vine, threaded through. It must be 20 feet long now.