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extranjera said:I would love to have a planted aquarium. I have lots of ponds (3) but the water here is so hard that if I want Discus (which I really do) then it would have to be an aquarium as they need lower PH from my understanding. Your Discus tank is really spectacular, love it.

If you do start a forum, I would love to read along and maybe one of these days I'll get it together to put in a tank.

It is actually a myth that you can't keep Discus in hard water. It is only true of wild Discus. A lot of people on Simply Discus talk about having hard water. The key is consistency. You can't shock a fish and change it's water all of a sudden. Which is why you should never use the products they sell to alter ph and such. They are known to cause unstable water with large ph swings. You are better off using your native water and acclimating the Discus very slowly with a drip line which is very easy to do with some airline hose and the fish in a 5 gallon bucket. I would be glad to answer any questions about it if you decide to try.