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40's pushing it. Plants help, but they ain't magic. My heavily planted 80g still needs 25% weekly to keep nitrates at 10. Discus start sulking over 20 in my experience.

If you're gonna QT, might as well grab a cheap LED too. Some corals get sketchy in the dark. I use a Nicrew from Amazon, does the job. And yeah, Prime is a lifesaver for small volumes.

Quarantine is a must if you don't wanna risk pests like flatworms or nudis. I lost a whole colony of Acans once because I skipped QT. Now I always use a 10-gallon with a HOB filter, heater set to 78, and monitor for a week. Dip with CoralRX first, then observe. Better safe than sorry.


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Mine stopped eating pellets when I added a new powerhead. Too much flow made it hard for them to grab the food. Maybe check your filter output?

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Jeffrey Moy has some beautiful discus, in my opinion.