Discus Eggs ! !

They really need to be in a tank of their own. It is rare that discus raise fry in a community tank. I never had luck removing the eggs and I would not want to. If you remove the eggs they will not get the benefit of eating the "discus milk" produced by their parents and they are much harder to feed with out this benefit.
Congratulations on the eggs though, your fish are half way there.
 
I read in a magazine that it is quite common for discus to eat two or three of their first spawns, so I don't think anything you did/didn't do has anything to do with it. The magazine also said that captive selective breeding has left many discus to be lousy parents (Don't ask me how they figure that).

Good luck Joe.
 
Joe's right about the egg eating. Don't do anything (except turn off the heater if they lay eggs again). If they continue after 4 or 5 tries then try some thin wire mesh.
 
Originally posted by Hebdizzle
captive selective breeding has left many discus to be lousy parents (Don't ask me how they figure that).
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Here is my guess: only good parents raise young in the wild, so to some degree the trait gets passed on. If tank raised fry are helped along by humans at all (this includes segregation), then natural selection does not weed out fry from 'weaker' parents and parenting traits are diluted.
 
That is part of the theory, the other is that when you take eggs away from parents the babies don't have the parental interaction. If the fry don't have parental interaction they don't learn to be parents, sort of like humans in that we learn how to be parents from our parents (and those that don't have a harder time learning). Now a good part of discus parenting is instinctual but some is learned and generation after generation of limited or no parental interaction is believed to have turned some discus into "bad" parents.
 
They're "at it again". We have put electrical tape outside the glass in the corner they seem to like and are 'cleaning' that area. I hope they don't try the heater again.........
The first batch may have been doomed from the start due to the heater coming on.
 
Finally, good parent Angels

I have had 6 to 8 different pairs of angels spawn over the last 45 yr ,but never raised any........until now. The young are 5weeks and still in the community tank (45gal) with parents . I did remove some other angels and swordtails when the fry were 10days old ( I could not catch tetras or scavengers). The parents were upset but did not eat fry. I fed egg yolk with Selcon which apparently worked well. I removed 2 batches of fry (200+/-) which died under my care. The parents were able to raise 100 in the community tank ; about 100 were also lost to various predation, mostly. They did have a second really big spawn last week. They let the babies come close to the eggs-apparently a mistake as the eggs disappeared the 3rd day.
How common is it to find angles that are good parents ?
 
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