{"id":3848,"date":"2015-05-26T20:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kezune.com\/sim\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2015-05-26T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:01:32","slug":"setting-up-a-discus-tank-in-aquazone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kezune.com\/sim\/2015\/05\/26\/setting-up-a-discus-tank-in-aquazone\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up A Discus Tank in Aquazone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey! Remember how I said I was taking a break from Creatures? Well, that’s true, but I was serious when I said I wanted to get articles and updates out about other sim games, like one of my favorites, Aquazone. Don’t expect regular updates about this game, however as I intend to play this game at the “realistic” pace that was intended for it. I’ll be doing some FisherMan<\/a> wizardry at the very start, but after that, it’s all about doing things the slow, steady way.<\/p>\n

By the way, for anyone curious where I learned most of my Aquazone knowledge, check out these sites. They’ve all been invaluable in helping me grasp a lot of the care and genetics behind these fish.<\/p>\n

Don’s Attic
\n<\/a>AZ Genetics<\/a>
\nEffenwright’s Aquazone Artifacts<\/a>Caryn’s Aquazone Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n

\"bandicam<\/a>To start off, I have a goal in mind. I’m going to breed discus. I don’t know how many fish I’ll be keeping in this tank to breed my discus in, but I need to set up and cycle my tank before I can do anything else anyway.<\/p>\n

The (mostly) empty tank you see on the left is my tank. It has some gravel and the “Bogwood” accessory added to it. I’ll be adding plants in a bit, before I can do that, I need to adjust the volume of the tank. After closing the tank and opening it up with FisherMan, I adjusted the tank’s volume from a lousy 12 liters up to an impressive 200. For those of you less metrically-minded, that’s just a little less than 53 gallons. That’s not as big as you think when you consider that many aquarium hobbyists have a 55 gallon tank at home, myself included.<\/p>\n

Once that’s done, I open the tank again and set the simulation time to 100x the regular speed. Supposedly, this helps cycle the tank. Normally, I skip this step, but since I had other things to do and had to kill a few hours anyway, I decided to try this to see if it made a difference. I doubt it will.<\/p>\n

\"bandicam<\/a>Once that was all taken care of, I added my plants. In general, I like to have a few taller plants to “break line of sight” for aggressive fish and I like to have low plants to give fish someplace to spawn.<\/p>\n

The light I had set up automatically shut off but I still wanted to get my fish in the water before I closed this entry. Naturally, I decided to choose some discus. Rather than set any particular goal, I wanted to breed two discus together and see what strain I could develop from them. Let’s meet our fish.<\/p>\n

\"fishies\"<\/a>I took two discus from the original files. The female is black with a blue halo and the male almost looks more like a butterfly fish with his yellow body. I’m excited to see what kinds of babies I can get here! I was tempted to try adding a “white based” fish because I’d spliced some together earlier today, but playing with some of the original fish seemed more fitting to me for some reason. It’ll take a lot of time, especially since I aged them down to their juvenile state, but let’s see what we can make!<\/p>\n