Very nice, beautiful system :mrgreen:

lol, why indeed.

Well I'm no expect but from what I know they require good water quality which doesn't necessarily mean high maintenance. The nutrients are kept in par by the plants which also use up the water which is replaced with new RO. I also monitor nutrients with conductivity and it's been decreasing with all the new plants, and with no water changes meaning I'll need more fish especually with more plants. Even if water changes are needed it's freshwater so basically just drain as needed and let the top off do the rest. Also for the discus in general these are all captive bred so hardier than wild caught which is likely where most of the complications come from. For instance a lot of discus articles state a ph requirement of around 6.5 to 7 while all these were raised in Calgary tap water with a ph typically over 8.

Overall it's been pretty easy so far, time will tell but compared to what I'm use to I'm pretty otimistic.

Thanks Don

Well that sounds promising then. I wish you the best with them. You give me some faith that maybe I could have some Discus one day.

Damn now you're scaring me, I should have stuck to goldfish.

:eek: I didn't mean to do that! I've just always written off Discus as being thee high-maintenance fish. You might be right though, I've heard some about the captive bred ones being a lot more resilient. There's a local breeder here that I've talked to a few times about them.

Yeah on the other hand if Brad can keep MIs alive anything is possible.

Ya, but he's not really successful yet - well there was that one time... :p

Looks absolutely amazing! Great job, I love the fish choice as well.