My aquaone 980T

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?

Too early to tell but with 8 it shouldn't be that hard to get one or 2 pairs.

Noticed daddy ram fanning eggs last night. Good news is they are both looking after the eggs thismorning. Wonder if they will last longer than the last batch...

pic just taken. wondering why the discus are hanging around the bottom left hand corner? Think its coz thats where the rams layed a batch of eggs last night lol. the girl is still guarding the eggs tho

Found 2 dead fish in there thismorning 1 panda cory and the female apisto cac

But while doing the water change i noticed this

Seems the checkerboard cichlids were happy enough in there to breed Only the mum looks after the eggs, she chases everything that gets within 10cm radius of the eggs including the checkerboard male lol

This tank has finally begun its overhaul

Most the fish including the discus are gone. All thats left is a few guppies and the ever elusive calico bn. Everything has been removed plants and all (except for the big driftwood log in the middle) and will be replaced with some lava rock. I have a hand full of val left that i will plant at the back of the tank (even tho it will probably get eaten)

Now for the fun part, the stocking I have on order from Fish Bowl and Pond (where Doug works ) of 15 zebra cichlids. So yes it will now be converted into a malawi african cichlid tank. With the zebra cichlids i have on order 5 cobalt blue zebras, 5 red zebras and 5 albino zebras. I went for a zebra only tank as they are quite aggressive and figured a species only tank would be best. Doug has assured me i should have the fish in aboout 2 weeks which gives me plenty of time to get the tank parameters right for malawi cichlids

At the moment the tank only has the driftwood log and rocks thrown in there with some guppies to keep the bacteria going in the filters. I will start posting pics up once i have it organized and looking the way i want it to so keep an eye here

Permission granted, but do not forget to upload pics...

heres an update pic



stripped everything out, added the droftwood log, 12 pieces of volcano rock with one having a java fern tied to it.

inhabitants consist of:
about 10 guppies (mix m/f)
1 golden algae eater
1 albino rainbow shark
1 albino sf bn (named froggy coz hes got a stunted nose)
and recently added 5 dragonblood peacock cichlids

Now before anyone says these arent compatible i kinda know but i researched what kind of fish i can have in what kind of water and im confident i can keep the parameters right to make it work.

ok added some more fish today and took plenty of (not so good coz im a bad photographer) piccys

today in went:
7x maingano cichlids
1x albino yellow peacock
1x dragon blood peacock

pics: (once again i apologize for lack of quality )


albino rainboshark


albino yellow peacock cichlid and a maingano


golden chinese algae eater and once again some mainganos


dragon blood peacock that im thinking mite be female


dragon blood peacock purchased today (also thinking female)


the dominant male dragon blood peacock


dominant male again


and again


maingano (Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos


you may have noticed Froggy the pug nosed alb bn in some of the pics. More pics of him in the "Your Bristlenose Picture's..." part of the forum

Some amazing fish, African cichlids are so colourful

Beautiful fish!