The Puffer Forum

My Royal pleco:

They are such cool fishes! I wish I had room for one.

PP - do you have a TDS meter? You can use that to track the salt easily. Short-term salt is not an issue - blackwater is not as soft year-round. With your partials,salt dosing will be changed out pretty quickly. If those plants are real, the almond leaves will be as bad or worse than the salt - the tannins eat light.

HTH

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PP do U use anything like blackwater, or almond leaves to soften the water and lower ph in your discus tank? Or do U just keep it simple and leave it alone?

Just plain old tap water. Most of my discus have been bred in Chicago water.

Unusual fish you have on the way PP and absolutely gorgeous Discus and plecs. Gorgeous fish as always x