Hannah
New Member
Hi everyone,
So I spent the weekend setting up my new 310l tank that will eventually house discus, but I've read conflicting things about water changes. On the fishkeeping side of things I've heard from several experienced discus keepers that you should not carry out water changes at all until the filter is fully cycled, as removing ammonia/nitrates from the water column can cause the cycle to crash altogether. However, just about every aquascaping resource I've looked at - including GFs' book - it says to carry out large water changes every day to begin with. I've used Flora Base Pro as my planting medium and the tank contains lots of anubias, mosses, java ferns, amazon swords and vallis.
Help - what do I do?!
So I spent the weekend setting up my new 310l tank that will eventually house discus, but I've read conflicting things about water changes. On the fishkeeping side of things I've heard from several experienced discus keepers that you should not carry out water changes at all until the filter is fully cycled, as removing ammonia/nitrates from the water column can cause the cycle to crash altogether. However, just about every aquascaping resource I've looked at - including GFs' book - it says to carry out large water changes every day to begin with. I've used Flora Base Pro as my planting medium and the tank contains lots of anubias, mosses, java ferns, amazon swords and vallis.
Help - what do I do?!