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Aquarium Guide - 6 years ago

Nice video..
this one also good..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm3y-lSV780

SpaghettiKillah - 6 years ago

Your discus look amazing dude!! Specially the deep blue one

Hoang Long Nguyen - 6 years ago

love the porno music

TheTheladrillo23 - 6 years ago

nice video, nice music, cool! So you mix Ro water with the tap water? will you explain the process , thanks!!

Pavol Kulanda - 6 years ago

TheTheladrillo23 hi, simply put RO water in the tank and tap water separately and let them mix in the tank.

Scalare Man - 6 years ago

I loved watching this. Definitly sub'd!!

TroyGaming - 7 years ago

I have been keeping discus now for some months in tap water in a 300L tank and they do just fine without having to do all this testing and messing about. I do one weekly water change of 50% and they are nice and happy.

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

Yes, I know. If i decided to keep discus again i would avoid planted tank and focus on fish. I would not use RO either.

TroyGaming - 7 years ago

Yh I wasn't saying what your doing was wrong I just think people get impressions discus need almost round the clock care and lots of care when I find them just as easy as any other.

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

TroyGaming hi. yes. i dont test my water obviously everytime i do waterchange. it is always the same lol. it is just to show how RO works. i have been using RO in my planted tanks simply because it is better for plants and fish.

Drew Ralston - 7 years ago

great video! love the music. nice job! tank looks great!

Duc Ly - 7 years ago

Your tank is embarrassing my tank

Amit Das - 7 years ago

How to keep discuss in planted tank like your one, suppose i use lil bit of fertilizer in basement and than some sand , and to keep this i need to change water 30-40% every week to maintain nitrate but how do i use heater in planted tank? I think plant ll die becoz of heater, but also discuss need it, plz what to do tell me sir in details

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

Amit Das i used fluorite, eco complete substrates in planted areas, sand in the middle. two 300w heaters with temp 30 degrees celsius. you can change as much water as works for you. i was changing from 30 to 50% twice a week. i never had problems with nitrates due to plants and good quality biomedia. i was injecting co2 and used liquid fertilizers as well as root tabs every 3 months or so.

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ray palmero - 7 years ago

do you have
CO2 in that tanks? thanks

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

ray palmero yes i was using co2

riju dey - 7 years ago

What do you feed your fish? Can u please give me the name of the product

riju dey - 7 years ago

+Pavol Kulanda its okk thatmuch information will work

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

riju dey hi i cant really remember the name of company but it was just frozen bloodworms and white worms in this video. sorry

Juan Martinez - 7 years ago

what kind of sand substrate is that?

Juan Martinez - 7 years ago

Pavol Kulanda ok makes sense now

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

juan Martinez sand is only in mid section. it is just natural mix roman sand from Pets at Home chain. planted sections have mix of fluorite, eco complete and black basalt gravel

Michael Piccirillo - 7 years ago

My Discuss request the same music played during their tank cleanings, some might think that is fishy, small world.

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

:-D

J Dot Tee - 7 years ago

What RO tap mixture ratio do you do?

My water here in London is hard as, I've been doing 50/50

J Dot Tee - 7 years ago

Pavol Kulanda hence the 50/50

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

+J Dot Tee well that is pretty bad then.

J Dot Tee - 7 years ago

Pavol Kulanda well I always wanted to keep discus so I started off with tap water but slowly introduced this ro mix to get softer water coz that's what Maidenhead aquatics advised me... slowly got my fish acclimated to that water and temp.... not really bothered with breeding tbh. Tap water where I am has a PH of above 8. Nitrates in the 30-40ppm.

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

It is not really important unless you want to breed. First discus I bought from LFS and they told to use RO if possible to make water softer for them. I found out from several breeders that is not necessary as long as you keep your pH stable. I had my RO unit so I just kept doing what I was doing. If you really want to keep them in perfect water keep using RO but it is not a must. You should measure TDS and achieve 80-100 ppm with your mix. Then you know your pH is going to be fine.

J Dot Tee - 7 years ago

Pavol Kulanda I went there last night n picked up my two. They aren't settling in great. I need to re home some other fish. Am in Hertfordshire. Is just a lot easier I suppose keeping it 50:50

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

60/40 mate. if you keep chens fish you should be fine with only tap water because they raise them in London tap water.

zoe Spielt - 7 years ago

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Kevin spacey - 7 years ago

only 30-% a week, in my 100g discus tank with plants, i have to do 80% about every 3 days otherwise my nitrates get too high.. i bet you must have pretty high nitrates to be doing 30% water changes like you would with small fish. I have wayy more plants then you do, i dont use sand i use floramax substrate.. And i dont bother with RO. i just swap out 80% with tap water using prime and our tap water has 7.8 ph. of course after like 4 hours my ph naturally goes back down to about 7.2.Sometimes i feel like people do too much for discus, they arent hard to take care of. Just keep the nitrates low and your fine. I also keep my temps are 80f, 82-86 is too high imo a nd i havent had issues

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

+Pavol Kulanda and dont worry about them dying. they can tolerate more than people think. they will show you when they are not happy.

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

+Joseph Karthic you will be fine with 6 discus in your tank and filtration you are planning. bare bottom tanks are easy to keep clean. you will have to do more frequent waterchanges without plants and to remove the waste and uneaten food. discus are high maintenance. slight rise of nitrates can be tolerated. you can test your water more often at the start to find out how it rises and then you will know how often you and how much you need to change. if you don't want change water every time you remove waste you should invest in some vacuum cleaner. wipe your tank glass regularly during waterchange and you will be fine. make sure you get a good quality healthy stock from reputable breeder. do not mix discus from diferrent sources without QT to avoid xcontamination. good luck.

Joseph Karthic - 7 years ago

what happens if nitrates is rising? do discus fish die even for small amount of nitrates? I love to keep 6 discus in my 4 feet 65 gallon tank..But everyone says its very high maintenance fish..is tht so? im planning for a canister filter rated 2800 litre/hr..but no plants..bare bottom tank.weekly 25% water change..feeding NLS thera forumula...will i be good ?

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

actually my nitrates were nearly zero wether you believe or not. it was 30% twice a week at that point. I was changing 50 % twice a week later when I had more discus and bigger discus. once I came back fron two weeks holuday and no nitrates. I guess my filtration and plants were doing their job well. what works for one setup does not need to work in another setup.

slash boom - 7 years ago

LMFAO u people get trolled .. i keep discus just like iw ould keep any other fish and they are fine .. lol . and if i add conditioner , purifiers this /that im 100% sure they will just die ...good filter and thats it 10 days water change .or even more i know people who didnt do change for 6 months and fish are fine coz of good filters .oh and my tank is 100 gallons and fullyplanted and i didnt use any unnatural bullshit fertilizers .. i used GOD's soil and it was better than any of ur no good chemicals and no i dont use a co2 cylender coz im not an idiot and my plants are also fine .i have a plabnt that grows 4 inches per fuking day /.. believe it if u can ., all these shop owners etc peopel are miguiding people to sell the pile of cheap bullcrap they sell u for shitloads of money which outside europe and americas is absolutely cheap literarlly 90 percent off stuff lol . i get 4 cans of coke in same money in which u get 1 haha thats becaue of the fake economy bubble dream system xD burn all u people burn in jealousy now make me proud . sory for being randomly an asshole .xD LATERS .

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

thanks for your input mate. I would love to see your tank.

Garry Thomas - 7 years ago

Perhaps i am missing something. We do water changes to remove nitrates and keep the water healthy. why do you use tap water? conditioned or not but its still nasty with high dissolved solids.

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

I used tap water to remineralize RO water. Fish need minerals to live. Everybody's tap water is different. Mine is fine when it comes to nitrates and other toxins. Chlorine and chloramines and some nasty metals are removed by cobditioner so I don't see the problem. Some well known breeders raise their discus in tap water only.

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

torkil86 - 7 years ago

u got it going sir!

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LUIZ GUSTAVO - 7 years ago

a lot of work

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

I know. I never really measured pH 3 times every WC. Only in this video. Obviously it was the same all the time. Amount of wc were increasing to keep discus healthy. I stunted a few on the way. I still have this tank as low tech with no discus. I sold them due to lack of time but I will definitely keep them again. I learnt a lot and will do it diferently with more focus on fish. please check out some of my latest videos. thanks for stopping by.

Bogdan Tudorache - 7 years ago

hi, what type of cichlids are those?

Bogdan Tudorache - 7 years ago

Thanks man!

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

there is a pair of apistograma nijseni and discus of course.

kevin platt - 7 years ago

Looks great! Is that a pike cichlid I see during the feeding?!

Jon Fassbender - 7 years ago

is all this upkeep necessary for discus and their pristine type needs? like especially on a weekly basis? not to judge or anything lol just curious

Pavol Kulanda - 7 years ago

ph measurements are shown only for this video purposes and to show how RO works. water change and cleaning really helps to keep them healthy. I was actually changing 50% twice a week later. RO is not necessary.

jaffarfan123 - 8 years ago

What is the pH of your tap?

jaffarfan123 - 8 years ago

+jaffarfan123 Nevermind... :D

MusicandLiterature - 8 years ago

Is there anything more boring in life than watching someone change aquarium water, clean the glass, and test pH? Not to mention compulsive trimming in an area of the tank in which some taller background plants would be quite appropriate. And isn’t the use of fast-motion photography proof of the fact that what is being filmed is not worth watching?

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+MusicandLiterature and yet 33k people thought it might be worthwhile but I get what you mean.

Ruslan Kirienko - 8 years ago

best tank with discus have I ever seen on youtube

Sean Sevasta - 8 years ago

How do you preheat your water?

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Sean Sevasta by using aquarium heaters

Matts Aquascapes - 8 years ago

What size tank are you using? I have a 55 gallon and wanted to put some in there, how many discus could go in there?

Matts Aquascapes - 8 years ago

+Pavol Kulanda ok sweet! Thanks for the reply helped a lot

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Matts Aquascapes It all depends on your setup. Planted or bare bottom? Any other fish companions, filtration. If you want fully planted scaped tank, I would suggest only 6 adult discus with few corries, and little group of tetras. Anything more would be complicated to maintain and keep algea away. You would be feeding a lot of fatty, meaty foods. If you go bare bottom you could put more discus in but your water change schedule would have to be adjusted accordingly and good filtration turnover is the key. You should aim for 10 times water turnover of water volume per hour. I hope that helped.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Matts Aquascapes Hi Matt, this is 450L tank, 120 US gallons if I am correct.

aro aqua - 8 years ago

really nice tank :))) you use any mineralization RO water ?

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+aro aqua I use ro water/tap water mix - no need for minerals due to tap water.

aro aqua - 8 years ago

+Pavol Kulanda ok so you not use RO water any more ?

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+aro akwa I used use Tropic Marin pro discus minerals. I just mix it with tap water now.

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Dijou Dol - 8 years ago

tank is A1, check out a guy on here rod lucas

Applis Loft - 8 years ago

I honestly don't think there is a more majestic fresh water fish then the discus.
Second on my list is the Altums and their relatives the Angelfish!
Beautiful tank there sir!
I grew up having angels and discus

scott sheehan - 8 years ago

perhaps you might be willing to quickly list 5 or 6 plant types that do well in 82+ water for us new keepers. I have read anubias varieties amazon swords java ferns s repens. Beautiful tank btw.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

yes all plants you mentioned do great. I would also recommend crypts, valisneria, aponogeton species and dwarf sag or echinodorus tenellus for carpet. All these plant are very easy to maintain and do well in higher temps. They dont require high light or co2 but would grow more lush and faster with co2 which is always plus in discus tank. There are plenty of stem plants to choose from but they require more maintenance which is not ideal. Ludwigia, pogostemon and some hygrophila species do great but really need higher light and co2.

Bryce Corbin - 8 years ago

Not only do your discus seem unafraid, they're actually kind of nosy LOL.

Corrin Jessen - 8 years ago

Great video! love the tank

Scalare Man - 6 years ago

Corrin Jessen Haha LOL I thought so too!

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

Thanks. The tank is pure sex. ;-)

tube01 - 8 years ago

Wow lots of work but your fish love you. Great tank

Aldo Fernandes Azevedo - 8 years ago

Amazing!

Aldo Fernandes Azevedo - 8 years ago

Try not to use that green side of the sponge, scratching the glass!

Top Dog - 7 years ago

+Pavol Kulanda it doesn't scratch the class at all, glass is much harder than the green part of sponge, it will scratch acrylic but not glass in a million years

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

Thanks. I will keep it in mind. Never really noticed any, apart from bottom where sand can get trapped in between.

Jack Tripper - 8 years ago

You have an amazing looking tank. Obviously a lot of hard work went into it along with all the maintenance but it has paid off and you should be proud. IMO your tank set up is one of the best on youtube. It is making me think about getting back into the hobby - I haven't kept tropical fishes in over 20 years but seeing videos of such great looking aquariums is very inspiring.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

Thank you sir. I really miss this set up. I managed to keep it for 1 year. I had to rescape after mainly due to different health issues of my discus. I made easier to maintain with new scape called Discus Tree but I still wasn't happy so I took main centerpiece out. At the moment I am gradually replacing all stem plants with easy to maintain crypts, swords and jungle vallis from my another tank. Lots of trimming and replanting stresses discus out. I will post update as soon as everything is completed and settled. you are more than welcome to check out progress and changes on this tank on my channel. I hope you will stay inspired and get back to it soon.

KALZONE850 - 8 years ago

awesome tank man

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

thank you

sethallah - 8 years ago

Testing the PH of RO water is pretty pointless. Carbonate Hardness is zero, therefore PH would change dramatically for any reason (more or less CO2 or O in the water or little amount of acid substances).

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

sure it is. testing on this video was done only for demonstration for people who are not familiar with RO and how it can lower pH.

Johnny G - 8 years ago

Pavol BEAUTIFUL Discus tank -- can you list the plants and fish in your aquarium and maybe how the plants are arranged from left to right please. Just bought a 55 gal tank and want to set it up -- yours is a GREAT example to follow. Thank You John email if you would like with details at jgarrett123@hotmail.com

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Johnny G Background plants from left to right are: Pogostemon Stellatus, Ludwigia Repens rubin, Limnophila Aromatica, Cryptocoryne Wendtii brown (in sand in the centre), Pogostemon Stellatus, Valisneria spiralis (straight variety) at both sides panels going gradually to dwarf Sagittaria Subulata in foreground. Midground plants are: Cryptocoryne Wendtii brown, couple stems of Starogyne repens and Anubias nana with Microsorium "Java fern" narrow leaf growing on woodwork.
Fish stock: 6 assorted discus, 9 corydoras (sterbai, julii, bronze), 3 panda garra, 10 rummynose tetra, 6 bleeding heart tetra, 1 bristlenose pleco, there were also some ottocinclus catfish and pair of apistogramma nijseni with Kribensis dwarf cichlids at that time.

Lord Twaddle - 8 years ago

This is why I don't think I could have discus, cleaning my 90g is hard enough without scrupulously testing the PH on every drop of water going in and out.

Lord Twaddle - 8 years ago

I'm tempted by a single Severum Cichlid, they get big but they are slow and peaceful

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Lord Twaddle discus are shoaling fish. you would need minimum of 6 or more. I always thought that dollars grow big are greedy eaters. angels tend to be fast and more agressive during feeding which is not good with discus but people keep them together and it can work.

Lord Twaddle - 8 years ago

None of the fish I own are larger than discus and silver dollars are already easy to scare so that's not thmuch issue. The issue is tank size and care

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Lord Twaddle They are pretty shy fish. They spook easily and are intimidated by larger fish. You may reconsider your stock.

Lord Twaddle - 8 years ago

I have Angels, Silver Dollars, tetras, Corys, Otos and Feativums in the same tank, not sure if I could even fit discus into it despite it being 90g

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

It's not that hard. I only tested ph on this video to show viewers how it works. I don't test my ph every water change. I do it maybe once a month. cleaning is different matter especially in planted tanks. I have simplyfied layout since then to make it easier.

Brit Burns - 8 years ago

I have been thinking about discus a lot lately, been doing some research and watching videos and whatnot, but this is the tilting point. great tank, beautiful fish. I'll be joining the discus club before too much longer.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

they are addictive. go for it.

madcypress L.L. - 8 years ago

Looking good

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+madcypress L.L. thank you

SilverPower - 8 years ago

Very beautiful tank. Is it 150cmX50X60 or 150cmX60X50 ? The height is 60 ?

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

yes height is 60

Laura Ingles - 8 years ago

Gorgeous tank!

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+lulu5th Thank you for watching...

XxEPICJONESYxX - 8 years ago

What is the ratio for tap water to RO water you use? Also what have you found to be the best way to put the water back into your aquarium. Awesome tank :)

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

No I dont. Tap water takes care of essential minerals, KH and GH. I used to use tropic marin discus minerals when I was using only RO.

XxEPICJONESYxX - 8 years ago

+Pavol Kulanda Do you put any additives into the RO water?

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

60 RO : 40 tap works for me. I aim for TDS 80ppm. I never purchased any pump so I simply set buckets on top of the tank and siphon water out. I do not mix water. I pour it in the tank seperately and let it mix in the tank. Once I get bigger water storage I will pump it back in the tank.

qazwsx66680 - 8 years ago

Great video, even nicer fish, question if you have time to respond, once u mix the Ro and tap water, does the ph change from the original 6.5 to let say 7, and then go down in the aquarium, or do you add anything alse to bring it back to 6.5? also what is your kh after mixing Ro and Tap, thank you and keep the videos coming.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+qazwsx66680 Thank you for watching. I rarely measure RO/Tap water mix. I simply put RO water and tap water back into tank separately and let them mix in the tank. I do not add any chemicals to lower pH. It just stay at 6.5 itself. My KH is 6 and GH is 4. I don`t have liquid drop tests for them at the moment. I only used test strip so it might not be very accurate. I hope that helps.

TheBSideDJ - 8 years ago

"Experts" keep telling me I can easily keep discus in my hard tapwater, with a high conductivity and high pH : as long as these parameters are kept at a constant and same level, the fish will adapt. As a result : You will be able to lower your maintainance cost and effort. You have a really beautiful setup, and never-the-less, a lot of respect for your efforts in creating a natural water-environnement.

TheBSideDJ - 8 years ago

+Pavol Kulanda : I totally understand your point. I really like amazone biotope and keep South american cichlids, L-numbers, cory's and geophagus on tap water with a high pH and high Ca-concentration, and it works well. I sometimes used osmose water in the past, but because of lack of time, I decided to always use tapwater to keep my waterparameters more stabile. (I have hard wood-scapes without plants)

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+TheBSideDJ Thanks for watching. Yes most discus nowadays should adapt or are raised in tap water with higher pH. When I bought my first discus shop owner told me pH 6.5 would be ideal but anything up to 7.5 would be o.k as long as it is stable. He said if I can make it softer for them I will have less trouble keeping them healthy in long run. I decided to go that extra effort. I found it easier to control water chemistry and also algea in planted tanks using RO water. I am lucky that water is free where I live..

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Darren Carter - 8 years ago

Great tank and great weekly maintenance. You can see how much you care for your fish

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Darren Carter Thank you for watching Darren. I try to care for them as best as I can.

godlikecharacta - 8 years ago

If you're in the US I'd love to buy some of that pogostemon erectus from you.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

... and the one I was trimming is limnophila aromatica.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

Thanks for watching. Sorry but I am in UK. Otherwise I would be more than happy to get you some. Although I think it is stellata. Not 100% sure though. Erectus has shorter leaves I believe.

Jarret Grimes Aquatic-Life - 8 years ago

beautiful and great work on the tank

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

thank you very much.

jeff mosier - 8 years ago

What are the plants floating on top?

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

pistia stratiotes

Ally Bell - 8 years ago

Stunning aquarium! What filteration do u have for it?

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+ailie mcdonald Thank you for watching. 2 external canister filters with 2 x 2000L/H and 2 filter boosters with mechanical filtration fitted on both main canister filters.

Dee From Brooklyn - 8 years ago

Tank looks great and the fish show it. Nice

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Dee From Brooklyn Thank you very much.

Michael Gumm - 8 years ago

Awesome tank and great maintenance schedule.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

Thanks mate.

geovanny herrera - 8 years ago

awesome tank beautiful discus how many gallons and what type of lighting are you using

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

Thank you for watching. It is 150x60x50. 450L or 120 gallons. Lighting is 4x80W T5HO.

DEEP DUTTA - 8 years ago

Awesome Care of discus fish.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+DEEP DUTTA Cheers mate. Appreciate it. Still learning.

Watch it - 8 years ago

What type of substrate have you got if you don't mind me asking? Do you dose pressurized CO2 or just liquid ferts.

Watch it - 8 years ago

Thanks very much for your help & support and will keep you posted on progress along with some pics in the near future. Once again cheers for the info. Much appreciated. Later bruv.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

You can check out the very first video on my channel. It shows the tank when it started as low tech tank. I used to run 4x36W T8 lighting and no CO2. It was easy to look after but I was running high light CO2 tanks in the past so for me it was quite boring. That is why I upgraded. Your HMA unit is fine. It probably run faster than RODI so you dont need to mix with tap as much. Yes you may need to use root tabs especially in low tech tanks is a good and cheap option. Crypts, amazon swords, jungle val, all the most common low tech plants are mainly root feeders. You can also use some Tetra complete substrate or more expensive Tropica plant growth substrate as the first thin layer for long term nutrients. But it can get costly depending on size of your tank. I did not use any ferts or liquid carbon on my low tech setup and it was doing fine.

Watch it - 8 years ago

Great. Thank you for replying so quickly. It is much appreciated. I was planning a low tech tank using caribsea eco complete on the bottom of the tank, then topped with black sand, forgot what the name of the sand is but it works great as a bulking agent thus saving on the amount of ECO needed, then dose with Neutro T & Neutro CO2. I dont use RODI water but i use a HMA RO unit which extracts sediment, rust, chlorine, lead etc. but leaves the essential minerals needed without having to re-mineralize the RO water. It does not take out all the contaminants but the water here in Scotland is very good. Before running the water through the unit i tested the water. 6.7 PH, 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrites & 0 Nitrates. Do you think that i may need to use root tabs according to the type of plants i will be planting? Thanks for any input you can give me bruv as i am not an expert with the planted tank. Cheers.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Watch it There is 2 bags of red seachem fluorite on the bottom, 2 bags of caribsea eco-complete sand type in the middle and everything is capped by 25kg black basalt natural gravel with1-3mm grain size. And 8kg of natural sand in the centre of tank which I bought in local "Pets at home" chain. I do inject pressurized CO2 during photo period at roughly 3 bubbles per second rate through bazooka atomizer which is sitting under one of my canister inlets. This way CO2 is sucket up in the filter and 100% dissolved in the water when it comes out of outlet spray bar. I also use circulation pump which is sitting near filter outlet to help with CO2 distribution around the tank. I used to use filter inline atomizer but there were these micro bubbles everywhere around the tank which was little bit distracting. When it comes to fertilizers, I am still playing with that. I tried EI method but I had to trim a lot. I use premixed salts NPK and micro nutrients in one bag but I cut the dosing down by half. It is called "High green" for high tech tanks with CO2 from company called Freshwater shrimp in London. So at the moment I am dosing 20ml a day and occasionally some root tabs.

Ivory Queen - 8 years ago

Beautiful tank!!!

Ivory Queen - 8 years ago

Ur welcome +Pavol Kulanda

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

Thank you.

Gas Pedal Subscribe - 8 years ago

Really amazing looking tank. I wish mine was half beautiful as yours.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Turbo Snail Thank you very much.

Josué J. Hernández G. - 8 years ago

Very nice your video, showing your maintenance activities

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Josué J. Hernández G. Thank you. I am glad you like it.

Discuslover - 8 years ago

Thanks for sharing, love your tank, it is stunning.

Pavol Kulanda - 8 years ago

+Discuslover Thank you for kind words.

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