My Tanks

@MariaS yes, they have a yellow/orange base colour and the blues are also a lighter blue than you normally see on turqs, a more metallic blue. I bought them as red turqs but they look like something else though. The foods I feed would have made them red already so don't know what they are anymore.

 

Here's the one I lost last year, was also something different and not your average red turq.

 

Beautiful


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Been offline for long. Your discus are looking great man

 

@Discusnut Been around lurking as the water restrictions where holding things back so had nothing to report but at it again now as we are in the clear it seems.

Here's my latest spawn at 10 days old.


My pb's also getting bigger and starting to show some white.


My 8 month old's from last year's spawn. I kept 20 for myself to see what they will look like and how big they will get under my care.





This one has seen things, horrible things haha.

 

Looking good man

 

BoelderBeestie,

I have just spent the last 30min being absolutely mesmerized by this thread!

The effort you put in and the love you have for your art is evident in the beautiful photographs you've posted!

Someday I hope to post similar photographs! Your work is inspirational!

Thank you for sharing and all the best!

 

Man they are beautiful in person, his work has payed off!

 

Thanks guys.

 

Awesome @BoelderBeestie ..

Some stunning babies you have there... well done.. the hard work has really paid of.

 

Haven't updated in a while, the 10 month olds are doing well and starting to round off nicely. Halfway there with them. The ones that I suspect are female are around 12-13cm with the males at 14-15cm. There's a few that's lagging a bit but nothing too serious. One thing is for sure and that's that they are hungry always.

 

very nice
even more impressed seeing your in cape town and that you did this threw water restrictions

 

The mods I made for my filters really made a big difference. Getting the filth out is key. Letting gunk get trapped in the filters just turns them into nitrate factories. I don't have to dump large volumes of water to keep the nitrates low anymore. My anaerobic filter is also helping a lot. I'm also not using the sponge filters as bio filters but as mechanical filtration, they also trap a lot of stuff quickly which is good for how I'm doing things.

 

They look stunning @BoelderBeestie !!

You have really done well
As has been said.. take my hat off to you having to cope and manage the water restriction problem...

 

I lost around 20 of them over the past few days but they are slowly recovering. I woke up to a low ph last Thursday with fish slimming and over reacted with the buffer. This totally destroyed the stability of that tank and they went into ph shock as the ph shot up came down and shot up again as I tried to get it stable. I used water from my other tanks to stabilize the water as per the Prof's advice, this saved the rest, colour came back and they got up and started swimming again. I had to break quarantine to do this but will rather handle flukes or flagellates than watch my fish die. I will be throwing out the buffer and will be adding more shells to the filters instead, like I should have done from the beginning. I have been using a buffer for a while now without any problems, all it takes is one screw up. Never again, enough of this cowboy nonsense for me.

 

Horrible loss!

 

Sorry to hear that @BoelderBeestie .. but glad you saved the rest

 

Went and checked up on them now, they are looking rof but improving.

 

Joh i would be devasted.
Strongs @BoelderBeestie

 

@BoelderBeestie ouch! Sorry Bro! I had the reverse problem when keeping Discus, my water is just too hard with way too much calcium and magnesium for Discus, so I eventually sadly gave them up for Tanganyikans. Again sorry for your loss, I feel for you Bro'!