Ray Tank | Catfish & Discus Tank | Plants
Ray Tank
Tank Size: 90 gallons
Inhabitants: Stingrays, plecos, and a tigrinus
Filtration: 2 Penguin 330 HOB's, 2 Penguin powerheads for aerarion and water movement
Substrate: Sand originally, now bare bottom tank
Plants: None
Feeding: Once a day, Hikari sinking carnivore pellets and bottom feeder pellets, salad shrimp, fish filet slices, earthworms, Tetra rich mix pellets, JumboMin, scallops, Aquayums squid or clam cubes, and oddly enough they like emerald entree too, pretty much anything that hits the bottom of the tank
Misc info: The tank is setup nearly completely around the stingrays. The other fish are there as tankmates, and although I am very fond of all of them, stingray care comes first. I started with sand to do a more natural tank, but I quickly tired of removing sand from the filters weekly, or rinsing sponge prefilters daily. So when I moved the tank, I didn't move the sand. Water changes are 2 times a week at about 90% each time. Lighting is at 80 watts via a double-tube shop light.

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Catfish and Discus Tank
Tank Size: 90 gallons
Inhabitants: Discus, plecos, Pseudodoras niger, and a Brachyplatystoma juruense
Filtration: 1 penguin 330, one emperor 400, and one magnum 350
Substrate: Mixed, standard rounded pebbles, pool prefilter gravel/sand, and Flourite
Plants: Mainly South American, swordplants predominantly, but also vals, stargrass, and even a brief attempt with riccia, and nuisance duckweed
Feeding: Once per day. Earthworm or spirulina based flakes, TetraPro Crisps, pellets of all sorts, bloodworms, brine shrimp, mysis, many other quality foods
Misc info: This tank is made to be a blending of the standard discus, planted, and pleco tanks... Not an easy task considering many people advise against mixing any 2 of the 3. It's worked out much better than I thought it would. I've spawned a few pairs of discus, lost very few catfish, and had, at times, some very nice planting. Lighting is 350 watts, provided by a custom metal halide hood, and a low wattage moon-light.

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Plants
Type of plants: ?
CO2: On and off, depending on whether I've got time to prune and care for the plants. Run at about one bubble per minute through the cannister filter to get it reaction time with the water. I had it on a pH controller so it wouldn't drop the pH too low.
Fertilizers: Many, the Flourite substrate as well as root tabs for the root feeders, Flourish Excel, as well as Flourish Iron
Misc Info: Plants seem to be quite a pain, honestly. They look wonderful, but take more time to look their best than I really can give now, so the plants have slipped, I still have some but the tank's not anywhere near as pretty.

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