Discus Tank Setup Daily Dose #12

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Doug Geib - 7 years ago

great video, just got a 65 gallon and would like to add discus. Is the temp an issue for potential tank mates, mollies, tetras, etc? Thanks!

Beetfarmer89 - 7 years ago

With dirt like substrate like this, would you still gravel vacuum it? Or would you let the fish/food waste decompose into the soil?

Aussie Fish Keeper - 7 years ago

So glad i found this video...i just moved my Amazon Sword out of the tank with the Bristlenose...thankyou so much..

Beastie Bros - 7 years ago

What size is the tank?

Kacie Lowe - 7 years ago

This tank is a 40 gallon breeder

Steve Smith - 7 years ago

We need the daily dose to come back!!!!

A Fitness - 7 years ago

discuss will die in this water. water has full of ammonia

AquariumCop - 7 years ago

awesome video, when I was a kid I used to order from the ads in the back of comic books for SEA MONKEYS AKA brine shrimp and green army men! I would feed my fish the sea monkeys and put a few green army men in my tanks! was so fun!

Aquarium Co-Op - 7 years ago

+Bjorn2keepfish sounds awesome.

AquariumCop - 7 years ago

Life By a River - 8 years ago

can you do a planted goldfish tank? i know it's tricky but I've seen it done

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Chris Starnes - 8 years ago

i have a 55 gallon tank that i wanna set up but i dont have room inside...i wanna set it up outside on my patio on cinder blocks..i live in covington, Louisiana what can i set up in it? goldfish? help me out i have a light, heater, filter, substrate ready for it....let me know what fish i can put in it or can i make it a native tank where i can go catch wild fish and put in it. please let me know cory...thanks

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

I think you'll struggle to keep it stable. Does it freeze there in the winter? How hot in the summer? Something that can withstand the cold, will likely not do well in the heat, and the opposite would be true as well.

Joseph Pinkston - 8 years ago

Any worries about changing of water parameter with the substrates you are using

Joseph Pinkston - 8 years ago

cool thanks

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

no, they'll just add ferts.

Joseph Pinkston - 8 years ago

Ah ya like the crushed coral you use but the 2 you used in the video are the going to change anything

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

I'm personally not, in fact some substrates I'm using to intentionally change water parameters.

LimeGreenDean - 8 years ago

I was so worried about the tank coming down I was just waiting for it!

SirenSea_Reviews_Aquariums - 8 years ago

You really just helped me so much with my swords i was wondering why they were growing and then dying off. i put plentiful amounds of quality root tabs and have eco complete substrate i see i had them buried a little to far down. paused video to fix them noticed alot of new fresh leaves that were hiding. my plants look fuller now. hopefully they will grow out more now. thanks cory

Shawn Eckhart - 8 years ago

i am lucky my bristlenose leaves my amazon sword alone lol.

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Yes indeed :)

Tyler Akers - 8 years ago

You make discus raising look easy. Lol

Tyler Akers - 8 years ago

Of course!

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Well auto water changes make it a lot easier for sure.

liquid-nature - 8 years ago

20k!!!!!

KG cichlids - 8 years ago

Congratulations on 20k! Well deserved bro!

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Thanks :)

lenny0813 - 8 years ago

Great video, love it, can't wait to see update !
Love those "altum angels" you got in the back, I know u don't sell fish online,how much angels like that cost and where can I order? Thanks a lot !!

roadjunkie - 8 years ago

great tips! thanks my man...ide watch pulling yourself up by hanging on to the tank...it could go bad for u.

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eddiekytia - 8 years ago

Need some help.....i put a bag of chemi pure elite in filter 3 days ago but i need to remove for 3 days to medicate tank so is there a way to store it for 3 days so i can reuse it in 3 days...i didnt know if i left in ziplock with water for 3 days if it would go bad from stagnant water

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

I'm not sure, I haven't used chemi pure before. Hopefully someone else can comment.

RescueDogTreats - 8 years ago

I know this is a random question...but can I keep two dwarf puffers only in a five gallon aquarium with plants (Fluval 5 gallon Spec)? If so, what plants would you recommend, and that spindly wood also? Thanks...love your Daily Dose and all videos!

RescueDogTreats - 8 years ago

Thanks a bunch Cory!

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

You can do two, but they may fight. I usually like 1 instead. For plants they do well with any of them, With the fluval spec light you should be able to grow low light and medium light plants well with fertilizers.

kasey nester - 8 years ago

Do you have a food that my millennium rainbows would really enjoy ? Just for a little variety

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Rainbows at the shop love the freeze dried brine shrimp cubes. http://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/freeze-dried-brine-shrimp

Catfish Cave - 8 years ago

Nice Angels in the tank behind you. No one seems to sell nice Angels anymore.

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Everyone wants the color mophs instead of the classics it seems.

HBunboxing - 8 years ago

Great video Cory another great daily dose video. Nice discus, keep the videos coming!

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Will do! :)

Angelina Andreou - 8 years ago

wish i had a fish store like yours in my town here they dont take a good care of their fish you are the best i have never seen any better .. if i only could order from you

Angelina Andreou - 8 years ago

i live on a farm in greece right now my fish tanks are empty i usually go to nearby towns and buy stuff for my fish i found a good fish store that i wanna visit maybe i ll get fish from there in my town there is only one and the fish are not in a great health i was always medicated them i am jealous of your fish store keep up the great work

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Dry goods and plants, so at least you can get those in quality :)

Jackson Harris - 8 years ago

Hey cory have you ever kept or considered keeping blue or gold Rams I'd love to see a one tank a time with Rams or just s tank with Rams video looks good bud excited for the next one :)

Jackson Harris - 8 years ago

ok would love to see a tank with them mine have bred twice but first time eggs went unfertizlied and the second time they laid about an hour before i turned the lights off i turned them next moring still guarding then i fed them they ate i came back 2 hours later they had pretty much just left the eggs and coudlsnt care less pretty much

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

I have kept them and sell them in the store, but haven't brought any home, but surely could in the future.

Josh's Aquatics & Railroad Videos - 8 years ago

Awesome video! Love the look of the new tank! I used to have a Red Flame Sword. They look really cool under natural sunlight.

Josh's Aquatics & Railroad Videos - 8 years ago

+Aquarium Co-Op The next logical step, eh? :)

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Yeah I so badly want to do an addon for tanks in a green house :)

Flynn's Fish Forum - 8 years ago

Awesome video!!!!!!

eric j - 8 years ago

I need about 6 discus that size myself lol.

eric j - 8 years ago

yea I did that lol got scared off because of price lol maybe later than sooner .

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Time to go shoppin :)

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DJK DJK - 8 years ago

would love you to do a video on how to pair off fish or maybe talk about it in the live stream :)

Aquaristik Master - 8 years ago

witch temperture do you use for angelfish?

Aquaristik Master - 8 years ago

my are ate 26 gress do you think it is good

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

78 for breeding, 74-75 for just keeping.

Increase - 8 years ago

I see you gave a huge shoutout to Charlotte Pipe in this one. She's a real classy lady!

at-guppies - 8 years ago

awesome video!! thanks for daily video.

Aquariums by Mike - 8 years ago

Corey do u sell that size brine eggs you had in video?

Aquariums by Mike - 8 years ago

Kinda figured. Have to order regardless. Would of rather went through you. Plus if it was you, you could of threw some of those sweet orange lazers in the box lol. Brine direct doesn't do that :)

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

I don't it's already the chest prices from like brine shrimp direct etc.

Igor Verdes - 8 years ago

I'm planning to order one type of substrate, couldn't find what minerals fluorite black is rich in. What do you recommend between those two?
Thank you.

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

What plants are you trying to grow? That would effect what substrate you want.

ron foerster - 8 years ago

what do you feed your tropheus?

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Frozen Brine shrimp and my omnivore pellet mix.

Dramatic Aquatics - 8 years ago

great video !!

Philthy Phil - 8 years ago

would love to see a cherry shrimp tank at a time.

Theo Colvin - 8 years ago

Do you have a RO or RODI system? If not what do you do for your water? I have a RO system at home and my fish and plants absolutely love it. One more question, can I grow dwarf hair grass with finnex stingray clip light? It's a 10 gal tank, but the plants are in the corner and so is the light.

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

I don't use RO water because my water is already basically that out of the tap. I feel like I'd want more light for dwarf hair grass on a 10 gallon. It might be strong enough but it'll be a wait and see. If it's the stringray clip light I don't think that is good enough. The planted plus clip light is probably enough though.

Zack Fanning - 8 years ago

How did you install the feeder with the glass top? I have the same top and assumed I couldn't use the eheim feeder.

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

I don't use the plastic back strip on the top, so I can slide the top back, this allows me to use the feeder and put food in from the front. This option really only works with a sponge filter so you don't have canister filter hoses or a hang on back preventing it.

Packo Rauf - 8 years ago

is 40 gallons enough for the discus 's whole life?

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

No, this is their tank until they start pairing off.

Tyler - 8 years ago

i'm really sorry for asking cuz i know you have prob anwesered this a bunch and i just can't find it but what lights do you use on the discus tanks

Tyler - 8 years ago

nvm i found where you said it a stingray thanks :D

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+HOBOkiller15 finnex stingray is the light being used.

gutsanglory1 - 8 years ago

Notha great vid, look at that subscriber number grow.
Its working, your about to break 20k
Good Job!
thx,

amcluesent - 8 years ago

'elf'n'safety would go mad seeing you working at height like that!

Eden's Aquaponics - 7 years ago

Damn those elves!

NiX aKi - 8 years ago

I pluck out the dead leaves of my plants. Am I doing it wrong?

Kyle welt - 8 years ago

It's just like in fall when a trees leaves turn brown, the tree spent all summer growing that foliage and in preparation for loosing it all it takes the nutrients back into the tree to store them for the winter . If instead you were to cut all the leaves off, that entire Summer's foliage growth would be at a loss to the tree. Unless you were to compost the leaves and try to feed the tree the compost but again the tree would have to wait and work to absorb and process those nutrients . I pluck my leaves after they have died off completely just as a tree would drop its when they turn brown , not yellow not orange , brown .

MarineLifeDrew - 8 years ago

No that is perfectly fine, I always do that when I get new plants. Especially swords and mine are doing great.

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+NiX aKi you can, but as they are turning yellow they are providing nutrients to the plant.

Russell Beach - 8 years ago

Great vid again, almost to 20k !! ? I have no use for it but was wondering if it would work. Could a Brine Shrimp hatchery be made to slowly drip into a tank of fish or fry using a DIY IV type system.Whereas when they hatch they would go towards the airline and into a tank at a slow release system? Thereby saving the time in collecting and feeding? Just curious if anyone has done it or if it could be done. Thanks

Russell Beach - 8 years ago

And that's why I thought you should tackle it LOLOL Just add it to the long long list !

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+Russell Beach It could be done, also need auto water change on the tank as over time youd be adding a lot of salt.

Big Joe's Fish Room - 8 years ago

that video was a humdinger LOL

Charles' Fish Tanks - 8 years ago

Aw man, I wanted to see the trout goodeids :(

Cory, I noticed that you left the roots as is when you planted the swords. I take it you don't believe in trimming the roots of new plants?

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+Charles' Fish Tanks no, in my opinion that is detrimental to bew plants with emersed leaves and causes so much stress you can have plants die.

ShortNanxious - 8 years ago

Wow. You were on the ball today with your video vlog. nice. doing good keeping up with them so far.

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Tetra Aquariums - 8 years ago

My closest aquarium center has 2 discus and a angle fish in a 3 gal, 7 terrapins with only male chiclids, cardinal tetras with a fully grown flower horn and BLUE TANGS in a tiny tank thats smaller than my 17 gal

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+Dominic and cats ugh, sounds rough.

Dominic Guarino - 8 years ago

Those pigeon bloods won't be pretty at all once they grow up. You should've just made it BB.

Danny's Aquariums - 8 years ago

Great Cory!!
I think you'll hit 20,000 subscribers tomorrow!!!
You deserve it!!

Yams - 8 years ago

So if 1 week ago he was below 20k, then that means he's gained at least 1.5k subs in a week. Sounds pretty good to me. :)

RedTrooper DoesGaming / RTDG - 8 years ago

Its your lucky day! He did!

Thuddy Waters - 8 years ago

That pipe's name is Charlotte.

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+Thuddy Waters indeed.

CichlidGuy915 - 8 years ago

Cool video cory! I wish I could get some discus!

Kyle Raines - 8 years ago

Do you feed your discus beef heart?

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+Kyle Raines I dont.

Dan Johnson - 8 years ago

Corey, I am very new to live plants in my aquarium. I do have live plants in my pond. I have always used root tbs for the pond. I see a lot of liquid ferts for aquariums. I currently have a couple of amazon swords, a couple narrow leaf java ferns, an anubias nana, and several ribbons. These are planted in black gravel. What should I fertilize them with: A root tab or a liquid? I will probably place my order with you so hopefully whatever you advise, you also carry. ;-)

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

Lava rock would work just fine. You can send us an email at store@aquariumcoop.com but in the store we are so busy with customers there it is unlikely I'll have time to answer your questions so we ask that internet orders go through email for questions. Thanks.

Dan Johnson - 8 years ago

Can I use lava rock to attach them? would you mind if I just call your store and talk to you and order what I need from you?

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+francisco Hermosillo the swords need root tabs. The anubias and java ferns need liquid fertilizer and should be attached to wood or rock.

francisco Hermosillo - 8 years ago

You can use those root tabs if there in a capsule even better for slower release of ferts to roots with swords you definitely want to feed there roots they would love the tabs since there's no nutritions in you gravel,,

Paolo Panizales - 8 years ago

oh.prety cool .

Desert Oranda - 8 years ago

Cory, what brand glass top is that? Also, what brand light?

darksidefloyd1 - 8 years ago

Top is a Aqueon Versa-Top

Light is a Finnex Stingray. As Cory mentioned it is lower light output. If you need more try Finnex FugeRay Planted+ that you may see used on his plant tanks in the store.

Gold Aquariums - 8 years ago

Cool vid

Michael Agostino - 8 years ago

You mentioned that Bristlenose Plecos will eat sword plants. Is it just Bristlenose? What about other Plecos that stay small like Clown or Bulldog Plecos will they too eat Sword plants?

Michael Agostino - 8 years ago

+Aquarium Co-Op Thanks for the info. Good to know, since I am setting up my 56 gallon aquarium and planned to buy Bristlenose and Clown plecos for it. Now I need to adjust my plant selection without any swords.

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+Michael Agostino I havent tested them all but royals and rubberlip plecos will also.

mummaV2 - 8 years ago

Hi Cory, I'm really enjoying the daily vlogs, thank you. I'm planning an Anubias only tank where they will be attached to Goldenvine, will I need a special substrate? I was thinking of only putting some sand as it will stocked with Corydoras Hastatus and Boraras Brigittea. Oh and I will add some Frogbit.

mummaV2 - 8 years ago

Thanks

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+mummaV2 no special substrate need sonce they will be using liquid ferts.

Jeramiah Green - 8 years ago

How many gallons is that discus tank?

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+Jeramiah Green snails come with all live plants. Snails in moderation are a very beneficial thing. If they are over populating that is a sign therenis too much available food.

Jeramiah Green - 8 years ago

Ok thank you

Samuel Delonge - 8 years ago

Believe he sad 40 breeder

Jeramiah Green - 8 years ago

Also have you ever had a problem with snails with your plants and if you have never had a problem where did you get your live plants

CyhAnide - 8 years ago

Woo, discus! I discovered that a bamboo cooking spoon works really well for spreading substrate under water. It floats to the top if it slips out of your hand, bamboo is naturally resistant to mold and bacteria, and the toothed spoons make a nice even spread. Nice to see more plants!

Aquarium Co-Op - 8 years ago

+CyhAnide good tip, thanks.

ShortNanxious - 8 years ago

That's awsome. gonna have to try that...

Samuel Delonge - 8 years ago

First?