trying to breed discus (PIC HEAVY)

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hey all,
as you know i have gotten lucky enough to have spawned discus in my community tank a few times.
seems like that was the easy part. the hard part is raising them to young juvies. or so i read.
so heres the start of it all.

sounds, good thanks

I think most angel and discus spawns you lose the weak fry it's just nature weeding them out.

so the same routine, change water, feed fish. i will chage water tonight right before bedtime.also wiped down the tank, had no choice. SLIME EVERYWHERE.
no dead fry today. hooray!
the aprents are trading off on feeding there fry, its a cool site, but one of the parents get irrataded and swims away and comes back.

they look the same size, maybe a grain size of sand bigger. idk

wow congrates Alan

once again, just came home from work and changing water, everythings fine.
the fry do seem bigger though. i will take a pic tonight.

pics

Looks like they take good care of the young. Great pics!

Congrat!! Once their not depending on their mommy and daddy, u should make a thread of how to breed them!

Thats awesome!
Thanks for the pictures!

awesome! turned out my breeding pair were both girls, so glad it worked out for someone. dammit. haha

awsome dude nice colors on those guys..hope must of the fry make it..

kleankord wrote:

awesome! turned out my breeding pair were both girls, so glad it worked out for someone. dammit. haha

thanks evryone for the great replies.

are you sure you have 2 females, just NOT soft water?

That is just sheer awesomeness dude!!!

Man, that's so cool they still chillin..
Let me know if you need to use the spare 20g I have. Its not pretty, but holds water, and is clean.

well i was going to buy a used tank on craigs list, but the boss says nahhh.
she want the adults in the planted tank. so i might put the comminity fish in the 20.
maybe. idk.

but thanks for letting me know

so the sponge filter is back in the tank.
the fry are getting bigger, you can tell there are a few runts left in the group.
i guessing like 150 fry. its really hard to count.

same as always 2 w/c a day, the parents are fed once a day.i going to start BBS thurs night.
wish me luck!

look what my wife did for me, i guess she still loves me.

https://s290.photobucket.com/albums/ll271/alan-j-t/breeding%20discus%20%20flamingos%2011%2010/?action=view&current=SDV_0026.mp4

gratz the easy part is over now let the real work begin lol

Awesome video!!

Alan, your wife did a good job....That is the best clip I have ever seen of Discus with the fry still feeding from their sides.

That is an amazing video! Tell your wife thank you very very much!!
I have never seen how they do the fry swap, that is so amazing!
Now I know what to expect if mine ever get it right.

Fern wrote:

That is an amazing video! Tell your wife thank you very very much!!
I have never seen how they do the fry swap, that is so amazing!

I'm amazed at how fast those lil buggers can swim!

wow nice video. congrates Alan. They look great.