Water Change....from a fish perspective.

Thought everyone would enjoy this. Sounds of the WC goes until about 4:20, then music kicks in and I speed up the video so it won't be TO long. Not great quality in terms of clarity (water distorts everything), but its a neat idea and view. This is a dirty tank, its after about 4-5 days of not being at home. Not sure it will make a huge difference, but watch in HD! Enjoy!

By the way, there is a Frogbit explosion LOL...stuff is crazy. I pulled most of it out during this WC, restarting with a couple of pieces again.

 

Great video Slug, thank you for letting us be one of your beautiful Discus! It was a lot of fun to watch.

 

That's pretty neat Matt

 

If I were one of those fish I would be terrified. It is like being in a trash compactor and watching your air and environment disappear..... not knowing at the last minute you would be saved.

Beautiful fish.

 

If I were one of those fish I would be terrified. It is like being in a trash compactor and watching your air and environment disappear..... not knowing at the last minute you would be saved.

Beautiful fish.

It does look a bit cruel to drop the water so low. Watching the fish swim sideways was a bit painful to watch.
Interesting perspective from under water.

 

It may look bad but trust me, zero harm done. Never heard of a 100% water change?

Thanks all.

 

Interesting watching them adapt their swimming to the decrease in water. I guess I've read enough about your care and effort with your discus that it never occured to me they would be harmed. Unless I was dreaming I think I've seen pictures somewhere of discus that were shipped lying flat.

 

Thanks Matt! Great video.

Beautiful Discus.

Ken

I have moved your thread from General Discussion to Aquarium Water/Water Changes section of the forum.

 

So they do that naturally? Is that why they're shaped flat? Curious.

 

Great video!

 

Thanks all.

I wouldn't say its natural, though they might be restricted during the dry season in the wild, its not this extreme. They are flat so they can fit amongst the branches that they live by in the water and the fact that they feed their fry off their own bodies. At least, that's the general theory.

Discus are not (or at least should not be) shipped flat. They are moved flat when first collected from the amazon after being put into tubs for transport to the collector's facility where they then get put into normal tanks. This prevents them from really jumping out and lets the tubs become stackable.

 

Well perhaps I really was dreaming then. LOL

 

Could you it on LSD or some other hallucinagenic??

 

What the video? lol Trippy