My Amazonic Biotope 400Lts with Altums and wild Discus.

[Jaen]

Hello people I want to share with you my new project, it's about amazonic biotope, the tank capacity is 400lts, I started on this project since 1 month ago. I spend 1 day mounting this project.

I started keeping Discus since 1 year ago, and always my dream was to have a wild discus, and altums, I know those are most difficult fresh water fish to keep, but it always was my goal, so right know I get it and I am enjoying and learning.

I hope that you like my project and if you have any comment or any advice, feel free to let me know.

Tanks inhabitants:

4 Wild Discus :
1 Symphysodon aequifasciatus aequifasciatus
1 Symphysodon aequifasciatus haraldi
1 Symphysodon discus.
1 Symphysodon aequifasciatus axelrodi

8 Microgeophagus ramirezi

13 corydoras (6 Metae, 3 ornatus,2 aspidoras, 2 bilineatus)

1 Roya Panaque L-191
1 white Pleco
1 Green Phantom L-200
1 Adonis

Filtration:

Canister 1500

Ilumination:

62 Watts sun light
40 watts Actinic

Decoration:
Many trunks, river rocks, sand.

 

[Knowdafish]

Nice fish! Already cycled??

 

[Jaen]

Tank Evolution

My Discus

Symphysodon aequifasciatus axelrodi

Symphysodon aequifasciatus haraldi

Symphysodon discus

Symphysodon aequifasciatus aequifasciatus

My Altums

 

[Jaen]

More Pics:

 

[Jaen]

Nice fish! Already cycled??

yes it is already Cycled.

 

[chEvstErino]

where'd ya buy the altums from? im curious >.<

 

[Matt724]

Wow! you're stock is gorgeous. Man, everyone in costa rica seems to have all these amazing setups. Anyways, yeah, just a tip, paint the back, because all that sunlight is gonna bring in a lot of algae and it probably won't be too good for the fish too (im not too sure). Yeah, but other than that, Gorgeous.

 

[Jaen]

where'd ya buy the altums from? im curious >.<

Well I purchase those guys in Costa Rica, some of my friends sold me those.

 

[Jaen]

Wow! you're stock is gorgeous. Man, everyone in costa rica seems to have all these amazing setups. Anyways, yeah, just a tip, paint the back, because all that sunlight is gonna bring in a lot of algae and it probably won't be too good for the fish too (im not too sure). Yeah, but other than that, Gorgeous.

thanks Matt I appreciate your opinion, and you are right in Costa Rica some of us have a very good stock in our tanks.

For the tip I fixed that problem with a black plastic in the back part the last pictures show that.

 

[Roberto G]

Nice discus as always, you have very nice fishes on that tank, I hope you can find a nice camera to take pictures of them! Flash is the enemy of a nature photographer, it stresses the animals and kills their natural colors!

Matt724: The thing of us costarricans is that we are able to take advantage of many of the natural stuff that we find here! And in most cases, water is very clean!