Tank Journal - Discus and Severums

[Roaming Ravyn]

Hi
Thought I would start a tank journal. I purchased a 84 gal Osaka during the petecera sale. I left it to cycle for a couple of weeks and planted it -snuggle mostly. I introduced a red spotted Severum and it has going through some cycling. I moved my breeding f1 rotkeil Severums into the tank The female was previously mated to a green and had no problem switching mates.

I am raising up their last batch of eggs and they have already laid another 500 eggs in the new tank.

I am surprised that the red spotted is tolerated.

I will post some pics once I have the algae bloom under control. :g

I still have my old tank sitting empty ready for some discus.

Any suggestions on additional stock for the 84 gal?
Thanks

[Mykiss]

More red severums ;-)
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[corad96]

That sounds AWESOME! But where, or what are you going to do with 500+ fish?

[AWW]

That sounds AWESOME! But where, or what are you going to do with 500+ fish?

500 eggs dont mean 500 fish lol.

I would suspect if he is sucsessful in raising, he will have a maximum 100 youth.

[Roaming Ravyn]

Well the numbers have dropped from about 300 to 12 individuals and the batch of new eggs I decided not to separate got eaten as soon as they hatched.

Here are some pics:


Female telling the male off

[Roaming Ravyn]

I also finally picked up a Discus from Bonsai Dave this morning...
My first discus - 4 more to join this one if all goes well.


a little shy

[bonsai dave]

Great Job . The severums are looking good and the little Discus is looking great in your tank can't wait to see the other 4 with him.

[seanyuki]

Are the discus in their own quarantine tank.?.....b4 adding them to community tank.

[Roaming Ravyn]

This will be a purely Discus tank for now - so this is the only one until Sat and the others are coming from Dave as well/same tank .....can't wait!

[discuspaul]

Hey Kym,
Great to see your post & pics of one of your tanks ? !
Also a pleasure to see you got your first discus ! Wow, was surprised see you finally fell in with the rest of us discus lovers - super ! And you got the discus from Dave - that's also very good as you know - he gets his from April - healthy Forrest stock - can't do better than that in this city of ours.
What tank are you showing in these pics ? Is the discus, and others to come, in the 84 gal., or another tank ?
You're probably aware that April has a great sale on some of the remaining discus from her last Forrest shipment, making room for her new shipment coming in next week - 5 or 6 different strains available for $24./ each - that's a fantastic buy - I saw those fish a month ago & they looked great - they have no doubt grown since then & would be worth more $ than she was asking for them then. If you haven't seen them - go have a look. Don't want to suggest taking away any business from good friend Dave, but if you're planning his 4 others for the 84 gal., you could do with adding a few more.
All the best to you. Keep the pics coming.
Paul