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pinkertd
11-02-2007, 11:08 PM
OK, it's Friday night, after a long and stressful week and a half with my dad hospitalized, but he's home now. So....I finally can take a little bit of time to sit back and watch and enjoy my discus. YEAH RIGHT! Among my discus I have two pairs. A pair of white butterflies (WB) who spawn pretty regularly so the male can have instant caviar. And a pair made up of a male blue & red leopard snakeskin (LSS) and a female electric dreams (ED) who have spawned and gotten wrigglers every week for the last 9 weeks. The tank is pretty peaceful with the LSS & ED pair constantly fanning eggs on their end of the tank. Right now no one has a spawn. But the whole stinking tank has gone hormonal! Right now I have four females in the corner of the tank with the male WB! We have female WB, the ED from the other pair, a second ED female not quite full grown and a white leopard female not quite full grown. Meantime, in the other end of the tank, the other LSS I have that I thought was a male is shimmying up to the big LSS from the pair. This leaves one other unknown sex white leopard odd fish out with no interest in all this craziness, just trying to duck and keep out of the way. All of a sudden my big piece of malaysian driftwood looks like a huge fish spear as they bump and bang and chase and jostle for the males attention. I'm holding my breath hoping that one of them doesn't bang into the driftwood. I need to turn the tank light off, this is too stressful that some fish is going to really get hurt. What's up with the swappy, switch-er-roo going on in there. Are my pairs getting divorced????:huh:

Nolapete
11-02-2007, 11:26 PM
Fish orgy...LOL

chucke
11-02-2007, 11:28 PM
haha sounds fun... Bu sorry to hear it man

pinkertd
11-02-2007, 11:30 PM
I might need to find a stress free hobby.....like keeping an ant farm?:(

Rbishop
11-03-2007, 10:50 AM
You just need more tanks....

silentskream
11-03-2007, 11:34 AM
you should get a jerry springer fish. lol

good luck with the drama!

pinkertd
11-03-2007, 7:32 PM
you should get a jerry springer fish. lol

:hitting:


You just need more tanks....

That is sooooooooooooo tempting:D

They are brats, and it's not even a full moon! Doing some cleaning and new planting in there today and the Electric Dreams bit me! She doesn't even have eggs in there today! No bloodworms for her tonight!:lol2:

RedScare
11-03-2007, 8:27 PM
Why don't you segregate your pairs to their own tanks????

pinkertd
11-03-2007, 10:36 PM
I just really wanted them only in the show tank. I don't want to raise discus fry. That tank and my pleco breeding tank keep me busy for a several hours every week. Another tank or two and I'm afraid I'd feel strapped to the tanks. Just don't have any more spare time to devote to tanks. The tank is back to normal again tonight. The LSS and ED spawned again after the tank cleaning/water change today.

RedScare
11-04-2007, 1:16 AM
AAAHhhhh I see. That is some high end fish food than LOL....