amazon biotope

Before I even bought my tank, I also looked at The Complete Aquarium -- it has lots of spreads of biotope tanks and sort of "recipes" to create them, right? I got my heart set on the "Asian Backwater" setup. Those authors are more than crazy, they are flat out irresponsible! They had about ten different kinds of gouramis and betta in a 29g. I'll bet there was a bloodbath right after they took the picture.

I know exactly how disappointed you are to hear the harsh truth about that dream tank. Try looking at some more realistic books to find an appealing setup. Good luck!
 
discus are verry timid fish and in my experience will tend to withdraw into hiding the angels are somewhat aggressive and will stress the discus. cardinals or simular make the best mates for discus.
 
I have kept 6 angels and 11 discus amoung other smaller fish together in a 400g. There were no agression issues and the only thing I did that I would not do when just keeping angels was having the temp a little higher than usual around 82 to 84 and the angels were fine b/c I had plants to kept oxygen levels and water quality high.
 
if i had a bigger tank i would also try to keep angels because the chance of the discus getting food is a little bit better. but i took them out of this set up because i feel the discus may not get there fill.
 
well i brought this discussion up at simply discus forum, no offense to this forum i just thought i should get some more advice on this subject and the people saidn that my tank is doable as long as i had some good filtration then it would be fine. so i am going to go through with it. within a month i should have the tank set up in my living room, but i probably wont start the decoration and getting fish till september. thanx for all the info every bit has helped. if there are questions that i asked earlier in the forum please feel free to answer them and any thing someone needs to add please go right ahead. wish me luck! and i will try to post pics and give up dates when the tank is set up! :)
 
unfamous said:
well i brought this discussion up at simply discus forum, no offense to this forum i just thought i should get some more advice on this subject and the people saidn that my tank is doable as long as i had some good filtration then it would be fine. so i am going to go through with it. within a month i should have the tank set up in my living room, but i probably wont start the decoration and getting fish till september. thanx for all the info every bit has helped. if there are questions that i asked earlier in the forum please feel free to answer them and any thing someone needs to add please go right ahead. wish me luck! and i will try to post pics and give up dates when the tank is set up! :)
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Unfamous, I think that if you are talking about having dicus and angels in the same tank, I would say that it is very "doable", just make sure you do not put too many other fish in there so that it is overcrowded. And as the other forum has said and people on this forum have said , keep the water clean. This may entail daily water changes and so forth, but by the looks of it you seem to have that area pretty much tied up. All I can say is good luck. ;)
 
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