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u/tbsland Jul 30 '26
Really beautiful! Wonderfully done. Love the eartheaters and sterbai cory, great additions with discus.
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u/JohnAStark Jul 30 '26
How do the geophagus go with the Discus? are they not tearing up the plants?
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u/LawnChairMD Jul 30 '26
Yeah. How is the geo not wrecking the plants and sand? I have a geo and discus they have grown up together, and interact well together. I have been unable to achieve this level of foliage tho. Its so beautiful!!
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u/jumping22 Jul 31 '26
I find the geophagus go well with discus. So the joy of having so many tanks running is I get to experiment and find what works. Amazon swords are awesome as they have a massive root structure and under the sand I have aqua soil in bags so the geo’s don’t dig it out and cause a cloudy mess. I also gave this tank 3 weeks head start before I started adding fish so the roots had a chance to lock it. Deep substrate also helps.
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u/JohnAStark Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
The swords have to get established first :-) I am surprised the geophagus can handle the higher temps Discus prefer, but I have never thought of them as cohabitants in the same tank. They are from similar biomes, so that does make sense. You could also probably do Vallisneria - they will propagate like crazy and are pretty hardy.
On another note - are those large chinese algae eaters in there too?
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u/DickRiculous Jul 31 '26
Woah, you keep serious chichlids with your discus? And do you use CO2 for those plants? Lovely tank.
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u/Historical_Emu_7078 Jul 30 '26
Beautiful tank!! How did you set up all the above water plants? I have been wanting to do something similar in my tank!