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Thanks guys! I'll try to answer...
yes, the fish are mine breeding right now as I post.
The hardest part about breeding is getting a pair, discus are tought to sex and can only be truly sexed when they pair up and breed...second thing is to make sure that the pair is worth breeding, unlike...
here are soem new shot, sorry for the bad quality...fry from the second pair went free swiming yesterday, this is a larger batch, they look like flies over the parents! I'll post better pictures later!
The tank, it's a 30 long with a sponge divider, one pair in each side, the foam is green so...
You're right Paul, babies...!
The fry will attach to any discus but the parents grow the mucus as they wait for the babies to hatch. A lot of breeders keep exceptionaly great parents on a constant fish caring rotation adding new fry to them all the time. This way the actual parents breed again...
the feeding is natural for the parents, they shake the babies from one parent to the other, the orange female doesn't get a lot of loving from the babies since they prefer the darker male, closer to a wild fish in color...they will do this for about 14 days during wich I start feeding the fry...
So I have a tank full of fry, parents on one side have fish on "free swimer" phase, they swim around but mostly stick with the parents feeding of the mucose in their body.
Second pair are still "wigglers" attached to the breeding con feeding on the left over of the egg shell they hatched from...
Not to be a party pooper but maybe your fish are acting up because something is wrong in the tank? Hole in the head is primarely brought up by poor nutrition, and stress...maybe if the fish you currently have get healthy again, they will be active enough before you need to add more fish.
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All great stores...as stated above make sure to let them know you are a member and introduce yourself! If you go to OGII make sure to look up our very own Bob (Magic)that is helping out over there, very nice guy and knows a lot!
If at AO introduce yourself to the guys, they are nice guys!
Rod
I have 3 false percs in my tank, 2 paired off and the lonely one was being bulied by them...he has since switched night for day, he stays in the rockwork during the day and comes out to swim around in the evening! Now that is one smart fish! :D
Rod
greates tip I can give you...buy a Canon! :-X Just kidding of course! Just love the Canon versus Nikon debate!
Extension tubes are the way to go! Buy off brand tubes since there is no glass element in them, you will love the results and they are fairly cheap! Good luck...
Ok...I went there today and here is my report...
Everything is 35% off now...some stuff still worth buying but going fast, they have four Bangai Cardinals left very healthy for $9 a piece with the discount.
I bought two 48 inch dual bulb/single reflector, used T5 fixtures they used in the...