I have tried MB my parents dont care for eggs so i have ro remove them from main tank. So i stopped. And there has been a few batches of eggs where i just did not get around to pulling the bad eggs. And i have had several white fuzzy eggs surrounding one good egg, and guess what , that good egg in the middle still hatched. M y A quarium C lub. How long does it take for discus eggs to hatch? I've been hatching and raising Cory eggs for about 4 months now. I'll give you some insight as to what i have discovered through personal observations.
My conclusion, let nature do her thing. Those may interest you: Parrot fish eggs will take how many days to hatch? How do neon glo fish lay their eggs and how long befor hatch. Cory eggs what's the difference between fertile eggs and infertile eggs??? How long does it take the angel fish eggs to hatch ,is it days or week. How to hatch ghost shrimp eggs. If your discus pair has stopped breeding, don't worry. As long as the pair Since many people desire these sociable and intelligent fish, discus breeding pays well.
Many people want them, but few You will want to provide your breeding pair with a suitable spawning medium. This can be in your community Home » The Discus. Back to The Discus. Hatching Discus Fry T After about 60 hours dependent on water temperature , the eggs hatch. Spawn Pigeon Blood discus fry sometimes have difficulty attaching to their parents. If you are having trouble getting your Pigeon Blood fry to attach, you can try the following techniques: Line the tank with white paper Shut down or greatly reduce filtration to minimize disturbances in the water Drop the water level to the actual height of the fish Leave the light on While the discus fry are freeing from their parents in the first few days, there is very little you need to do.
Blue Panda Discus with Fry Learning how to create and care for their fry is a self-taught process parent discus must go through. Breeding 0 Comments. Share this post Email. Leave a Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Tips for Increasing Discus Spawn Yields If you are not getting many discus fry from your discus breeding pair spawns, then try some of these Maximizing Spawn and Fry Yields If you want your discus to produce more spawn and fry, then this article is for you!
My Discus Just Laid Eggs. Now What? Solving the Problem of Lost, Free-swimming Fry Your breeding pair of discus has spawned, the eggs have hatched, and the parents have successfully guarded the wigglers Some Business Tips for Discus Breeders Since many people desire these sociable and intelligent fish, discus breeding pays well. The fry would then be able to feed on the mucus that the parent discus will excrete for the fry to eat.
Breeders believe it is this mucus that gives the fry immunity against gill flukes that are a big problem with baby discus fry at the four week old stage of their life. Work here at the Plymouth University are looking at this to see if they can find any evidence to back this up. Which is why many believe that at the three to four week old stage when the fry are removed from the parents, that these pests cause so many problems.
So it is wise to use a fluke treatment to help the young fry over this period. Sterazin can be used twice a week, or wormer plus every four days which usually does the trick. Once the fry are up to the 2 size all treatments can stop, and treat the young fish the same as any other discus.
So you have now become hooked and want to have a go at letting the parents bring on the young family. If this is the way you wish to go, you will need more than just one tank, and take into account some other things as well.
First of all you will need for starters a 20 gallon tank. The best size preferred seems to be an 18 cube tank for most breeders. I used when I was a breeder a standard 30 x 15 x 12 glass tanks and this done the job for the first four weeks. I only used this size because that was the standard size that was easily available at a sensible cost.
But most 20 gallon tanks will suffice as long as they are no less than 15 deep. All that is then needed is a heaterstat, sponge filter, thermometer and a suitable spawning site such as a breeding cone. Breeding cones can be bought from many discus specialist, or good aquatic shops.
They are the best for discus breeding because of the shape and colour which makes the eggs stand out from the clay colour that the clay pot is made from. A second sponge filter is a good idea, so that one at a time can be cleaned. This will always make sure that one is fully bacteria loaded to keep the dreaded Ammonia down. I mentioned that this is ok for the first four weeks. This is because at four weeks, the baby discus will be around thumb nail size, and should be quite a few of them.
Water quality will be getting harder to look after, and they will be hurting the sides of the parents because their mouths will be getting bigger eating the mucus off the sides. So what is needed then is two, yes at least two 4 foot tanks to split the batch of fry in half to grow on ready for the shops.
It would also be unkind to keep so many growing discus in such a small tank. But in larger tanks, the fry wonder off too far from the parents and die. The idea is to raise as many as you can to sell on and cover your hobby or business whatever the case may be. We have talked about the baby discus fry feeding on the mucus that the parents produce on there skin. But you will need to also feed them a good source of food on top of that.
The best first food to feed them on is newly hatched brine shrimp. They love it and they will grow very quickly on this. The best way to start it is to wait until the fry are five days old. Then start off the first brine shrimp hatchery. On the sixth day start off a second hatchery. Because depending on the temperature which is best kept at f, the shrimps will hatch out every two days. So it is best to have two on the go to give you a good constant supply of newly hatched shrimp food.
Plus doing it this way, you will be feeding the baby discus after one week of free swimming which is right. For the first week, they will be still using their yolk sack up, and feeding on the parents mucus.
After six weeks, start feeding them on crushed flake foods, and as they get bigger leave the flake larger. Many breeders make up a beef heart mix, finely blended with shrimps and prawns to give them a good high protein diet. Discus breeding on a large scale is how it all started for me and Plymouth discus. Breeding one pair of discus is considered a challenge, but how do you do it on a large scale This is my experiences of breeding the king of the aquarium, for profit and on a large scale.
Things to consider when breeding discus on a large scale firstly have you the time, commitment, the money, the room, space and a very understanding wife or partner A lot of time will need to be spent attending to many needs of the project which I was warned about when I considered breeding discus many years ago.
Also the holidays to Ibiza and the like, forget it. I thought, yes I can handle it. After all I have bred nearly everything else under the sun in the time I have kept tropical fish. With that decided and all the boxes ticked we consider the fish room which the discus are to be bred. The area needs to the size of at least a large shed or garage or even larger.
Many breeders have successfully used a spare ground floor spare room or cellar with good effect. With the room area planned for your project it will need to be insulated. In fact many of the discus farms over there will look at you with a blank face if you start taking about heating and filtration. Also water does not have to be heated. So you now begin to understand what we are all up against breeding discus in the UK.
But it can still be done; I have done it for many years and made enough money from it to buy some extra pairs for my collection and some foods, equipment etc. But you will always get setbacks. Experience will determine how to get over this one. You assume everything is okay with the fish looking fine, but no eggs. Again time and experience will get you through this. In the past discus breeding has been shrouded in mystery. With fear of everyone knowing the secrets and the market flooded with expensive fish.
Now days things are far more relaxed, because many discus are bred abroad. With cost cheaper than the UK even with shipping occurred, many breeders are now papered to share closely regarded secrets. With the focus still on setting up a breeding farm in the UK the room must be insulated to make the whole project profitable.
Secondly you will get a lot of condensation; this loss of heat will hamper your project. An example of this was recently when a customer asked if I could go around and see what he was doing wrong.
As I walked through the door way and I was hit by a few pints of water dripping from the ceiling, and with a few more pints of water falling into the open topped tanks without condensation trays. Water running over treated wood and concrete and then into the tanks is not the best start to even keeping discus or any fish come to think about that, let alone breed them.
Believe me this will pay off, and a few extra pounds spent now will pay back many times over in the long term. For breeding tanks 2 x 2 timbers are the cheapest way of racking out your fish house, and of course it will take the weight of the tanks.
Metal framed stands have also been used to good effect. With any stands make sure you use polystyrene under each tank in case of any surfaces being unlevelled. A central system of tanks is best for a project of this size, because many tanks running on a system will be far more stable than one tank i. And of course any changes water chemistry will be far slower than a closed system single small tank.
A central system of tanks are many tanks that over flow into a large sump filter. From here the tank water usually gets pumped to a UV steriliser and then pumped back to the tanks via a network of pipework.
This without a shadow of a dought the best way to breed discus on a large scale. Plus if you are lucky as I am to live in a soft water area, a purifier can be set up to the main sump in the final chamber. With a slow trickle of water going into the end compartment before the return pump, being pumped back to the tanks, this will speed up the growth rate.
But a drain overflow will need to be in place to take away surplus water added to the system. Also good high protein foods should be fed and often to accelerate the growth rate.
The sooner they grow the sooner they go, and you get paid for all your hard work. OH did I say your hard work, well here comes another secrete. We are not discus breeders, but purely water keepers.
If the water conditions are right the discus will thrive and multiply on their own. The antennary list to set up a project like this is a good sized room with good insulation.
A water pump to move at least four times the total volume of water around the system of tanks, every hour. A suitable sized UV steriliser, also two, three or more watt heater stats in the sump to kept up the temperature. Lighting is not so important over each tank. But a light cycle is important to determine night from day.
So a timer or a reasonable good time keeper needs to be available. A night light will need to be fitted, as the discus should never be left in total darkness. The sump filter itself needs to be full of media with a volume to hold sufficient numbers of bacteria needed to break down ammonia in all the tanks.
The mechanics of this is the water returns from all the tanks into a sediment chamber. From here it usually flows into an up and over type filter passing through the media to house the beneficial bacteria needed to sustain water quality. The sump filter is usually made of glass or acrylic, but may be made out of food grade plastic. Trickle towers which can be home made out of food grade plastic or glass is the best way to filter any tank, as it is more efficient.
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