Discus mates going crazy

Sportsnutim

Sportsnutim

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laying eggs. It seems the male and female are doing well: I just need to put them in their own tank when the fry hatch. They aren't eating them but the fry swim about the tank and become a meal or swim into the rocks and die. Other than that they seem to be eating on the parents. Any advice on a breeding tank: I know there are no rocks and a sponge filter is used anything else? :grinyes:
 
many are just bare bottom with the sponge filter..pretty spartan.
I know one breeder who uses a few potted plants or anubias on driftwood.
 
Make the breeder tank relatively small, so the fry can find the parents easily, that also say to leave a dim light on nearby so they can find the parents at night...
the PH should be low to excite the slime coat production by the parents, shot for low
7s. after about a week or so, put the parents in another tank (of all seems to be ging well) and feed the younguns baby brine shrimp...
 
I just hatch bbs out in a 1 gallon glass jar
 
lol.. I don't even measure the salinity(SG)

I keep the jar in on top of my sump(water is 82-82 in the discus tank)

follow instructions on the bbs label drop in an airstone..24-48 hrs later turn off the airstone..suck the bbs up with a turkey baster and run them thru a coffee filter..
 
You know the newly hatched fry will have to eat off the slime coat of the parents for a while. Usually each parent takes a turn then transfers them to the other parent. And you've probably noticed that the parents get real dark when they prepare to spawn. That being said, anything dark in the breeding tank will have to be covered up with...like a white pantyhose. The fry will seek out anything dark in the tank thinking it is the parent. So they only dark things you want in that tank are the dark parent fish. Attaching to the parents to feed is critical for their survival.
 
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