Emmanuel's 100gallon tank

[wesleydnunder]

i love that style tank. I think a school of some sort would be a must for that tank. Great job!!

Mark

[emmanuelchavez]

Oh my. Now I feel like I have to make sure the next scape is epic.

That last scape only lasted roughly 4.5 months... I feel like I have ADD, constantly changing it around. :P
I'm thinking/hoping the next one lasts longer. I'm thinking it should, if I use slow-growing plants, right? Haha.

[Complexity]

I'm thinking/hoping the next one lasts longer. I'm thinking it should, if I use slow-growing plants, right? Haha.

No, it won't. It doesn't matter what plants you use. It'll change as often as your creative spirit feels like it.

[emmanuelchavez]

Hehehe, I keep changing my mind about the plants and their placement before I even start scaping it.

For now, here is a picture of the tank as it stands. Only two of the pieces of driftwood are waterlogged, they're two of the original ones I had in there - they're holding down the buoyant pieces. It only took my first set of manzy dw about a week to get waterlogged... these are taking their sweet, sweet time.

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[Complexity]

Looking nice! I like the way the driftwood curves down. Reminds me of a hand with long, boney fingers. Eerie feeling.

Most people with planted tanks love to scape. It seems the process of scaping is what's most fun for them. I'm weird in that I actually hate the process of planting, trimming, etc. I hate scaping. But I love the look and feel of a real planted tank. So my scape will never really change.

You clearly have the scaping bug. Keep playing with it and take pictures all the way. It's fun to see other people's designs.

[emmanuelchavez]

I think the floating manzy pieces may finally have sunk. I've been sick for the past week though, so I haven't tried scaping. Hopefully by next weekend. Classes start this week so i may not have much time during the week.

[emmanuelchavez]

I found another image of my tank. This is what it looked like before I started to pull it apart.

I need to find time to start scaping... this weekend, I'm hoping.

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[emmanuelchavez]

The tank is finally scaped, and I got some discus from pancak82 and mtun. I did a copy and paste from what I wrote on my journal on another forum... so I'll probably come back a bit later to fill in some gaps.

People wanted pictures, so I'm giving pictures. Prepare for picture overload!!!

Let's start with a picture of the tank as it stands now. Some plants need to fill in more.



Left side... you get a preview of some of my discus here.



Center.



Right side.



Angelfish. It's grown so much. It was about 1.5" when I got it.



Another one. He's such a great looking koi angelfish, IMO.



The other angel. I like the vertical stripes. You get a preview of one of the juvy discus. It's almost 1.5"



Now on to the discus! I can has bloodworms burger?



Another juvy discus looking for some more grub. The bigger of the juvy discus have taken a liking to the beefheart now.



Another of the larger juvy discus.



More juvy discus. I like the vertical bars on the second one.



Probably my favorite, and biggest, of the juvy discus



I seez yuuu!



Which brings me to my favorite of the discus! The Red Melons!!! You can get a rough estimate of their size by looking at the full tank shots.



I love you red melon discus!







On the prowl for some grub. They didn't seem to like the beef heart. They ate some brine shrimp, but went crazy for their afternoon bloodworms.



You can see the size difference between the bigger guys and the bigger of the juvies in the background. The juvies are growing rather rapidly as well, except for a couple of the finicky eaters that won't touch the beefheart or brine shrimp, and only eat a couple of bloodworms...



Introducing some blue colbalts!



Sometimes a few of the juvies will school with the big guys... I'll see if I can get one of those pictures.



The blue colbalts seem more partial to the bloodworms, but will sometimes eat a bit of beefheart or brine shrimp.



With flash to show the colors a bit better.




Luckily they're all eating some new life spectrum food as well, until I can replenish my tetracolor bits. I love discus!

[crackal]

wow!!! it looks great. but its gonna look even better when the plants fill in and your discus grow.

[emmanuelchavez]

They're growing quite rapidly. They're all starting to realize that I'm the 'food guy' so they come up to me when I enter the room now.

[myjohnson]

Dang!

Pimp looking set-up!

[Darbex]

Dont take this the wrong way only want to help out but the last four pics of the cobalts they look under fed at least from the pics it looks like I can see the cranial bones. With Juvies make sure you feed the crap out of them and then feed them some more. Otherwise you run the risk of stunting them and they will stay juvies and you will run into issues later. Other than that I like the scape and everything. Trust me I learned from experience.

[myjohnson]

The Discus King has spoken!

[Darbex]

The Discus King has spoken!

No I dont claim that title not enough years under my belt. Just had dealt with a lot of headaches and learned a lot of crap along the way.

[myjohnson]

Stop being modest.



Acting like a little school girl. I swear man!