Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Summoning discus keepers
As always I'll preface any advice I give with the warning that I'm only new to all this!
I'm not too sure about whether the other fish will get along with Discus (or vice versa) but I would be a little concerned about the amount of fish you're planning. Your tank is about the same size as mine (mine's a Rio 180 which only actually has about 145L of water in it, including the external filter), and you're looking at about 50 fish/shrimp or so. I know most of them are gonna be small, but I have similar enough sized fish and I'm looking at around 25 max.
Like I said, just a thought, and other people here can help more, I'm probably just being over cautious!
J.
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Personally, I would give the lampeyes a miss full-stop.......they would also get "lost" against such brilliant coloured other fish.
Corydoras catfish and discus needs some careful consideration. Not all Corys can tolerate very well the high temperature demanded by Discus.
Which species of Cory were you having your eye on?
I would recommend Corydoras sterbai as the ideal commonly available Cory to mix with discus.
A few discus and 20 Cardinals in a 180 litres is not that bad.
The key thing is water changes and food quality......if you don't do decent and properly scheduled water changes then no size of tank is good enough for discus.
A common mistake made by many keepers is the belief that a large tank fixes all.....it doesn't.
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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