My 10 Tony Tan Blue Cobolt Discus Growout Journal

[Quintin]

So as i said in a earlier thread im now the proud owner of 10x Blue Cobolt Discus 2" in size ordered From Tony and Jeffery Tan.

The whole experience was a delight and no discus died during transport.30min after being in tank they were cruising around fins erect, all in front of tank none hiding or dark in color.Im verry pleased to say the least.

They are in a 200L tank 4ft size.Feeding 6 times a day Benkers Discus Royal (frozen food imported from germany) Hikari Discus granules, Ocean Nutrition Bloodworm and Daphnia.will add to the menu once my pocket recovers.

Water change 50% Morning and 50% at night and syphon uneaten food and crap 30min after feeding.

These fish are realy easy to deal with and very boysterous and always hungry and inquisitive.The first pictures are from the day they arrived 30min in tank.Last week tuesday.

[Quintin]

Sorry about the low quality pics

[Quintin]

The following pics are following days up till one week.

[Quintin]

Sorry for the photo bomb

[Quintin]

Almost done

[Quintin]

Last ones Promise.

And the journey begins again

[Phillydubs]

Never Ever be sorry about pictures!! Are you kidding me, especially i your own thread! We all looooove pics so bombs away!!!

Sounds like they made the long trip quite well! It also sounds like you have a hell of a strict regiment planned and will have some beasts on your hands in no time!!

Keep us posted and keep those pics coming!!!

[Quintin]

Will do monthly updates with pics.really excited.

[Dhavalsp]

They look nice....looking forward to updates and progress!

[magplate]

Pictures get right to the point, keep 'em coming!

[Filip]

Good luck with them Quintin.They look great and the biggest one already started to get a blue hue on him.

What kind of water do you use for WCs?
If its aged and treated with Safe ,maybe an easier and more effective routine for you and your fish would be to do one 90% instead of 2 50% daily.
Anyway , keep us posted with pics and progress from their growth.

[Quintin]

Strait tap water with safe.ive found fish to get less stressed with 50% twice a day.and that way they get two big fresh doses of water a day.and with the syphoning after feeding.and wiping glass every second day this tank stays clean.and the fish love it.i dont have a light on tank so looks very dull.but my main concern rite now is only the fish.they do look amazing in the day with sunlight.pics really dnt do them justice.

[Filip]

Maybe you already know , but its good to mention that when you do straight tap WC you can significantly reduce stress in discus by running the tap water hose through a thick layer of filter floss or micron sock layers.
That way you outgass the water more quickly and reduce the microbubbles in water, which are the main cause of discus stress after WC.
They irritate fish gills and make breathing harder on discus.

[Dhavalsp]

Maybe you already know , but its good to mention that when you do straight tap WC you can significantly reduce stress in discus by running the tap water hose through a thick layer of filter floss or micron sock layers.
That way you outgass the water more quickly and reduce the microbubbles in water, which are the main cause of discus stress after WC.
They irritate fish gills and make breathing harder on discus.

This is a really good practice, also, if you put the hose inside the water in your tank you will reduce the impact of water from hose hitting the water surface and reduce the bubbles significantly.

[Quintin]

Thanks but tank in bedroom and im using the dreaded bucket.lol

[Filip]

Thanks but tank in bedroom and im using the dreaded bucket.lol

No destination is too far away for a PVC python :-) .
Anyways I have found that bucket WC does a great job in agressive water agitating and thus quicker outgassing of the notorious microbbubles that bothers discus gills.

[Quintin]

Yeah true.other isue is we having water restrictions here so hardly any preasure in pipes.but will keep info in mind when things back to normal

[Quintin]

So as Promised my monthly update.Here is June.Im glad to report all fish doing great and eating me out the house.lol

[Quintin]

Some Close Ups.

[Quintin]

last for now.Still no light in tank

[Phillydubs]

Looking good! Already showing some nice color!!!

[Quintin]

Thanx.crappy pics dnt do them juctice.love these guys.

[Quintin]

Sorry have not posted update as i cant load pics from phone and laptop broken.All Discus doing great.there is one little runt in group but eats violently and always out and about so not too worried.will post pics as soon as my technology up again

[magplate]

Looking forward to watching these guys grow!

[Quintin]

Sorry for delay here is July update

[Quintin]

And Some more

[Quintin]

got some closeups

[Quintin]

Some more close ups

[Quintin]

Nearly done

[Second Hand Pat]

They look great Quintin :) and seem to be growing well.
Pat

[John_Nicholson]

Looking great.

-john

[Quintin]

Thanks John and Pat. means a lot comming from two seasoned discus keepers such as you

[Dhavalsp]

they look nice and are growing well...

what are your thoughts about the tall once, post 25, 3rd pic on right and post 26, 1st pic on the left....I am not sure if they will continue to look that way as they grow or if they will become rounder, they seem like 'part' bulldog variety...

[Second Hand Pat]

they look nice and are growing well...

what are your thoughts about the tall once, post 25, 3rd pic on right and post 26, 1st pic on the left....I am not sure if they will continue to look that way as they grow or if they will become rounder, they seem like 'part' bulldog variety...

More like high bodied. I do not see any bulldog tendencies.
Pat

[Quintin]

I doubt bulldog.perhaps high body.hard to tell as they still young and still bit pointy.suppose time will tell

[Dhavalsp]

yup, I had my doubts ...I generally steer away from fish that looked like that while buying, but I always wondered what they turn out to be....I will be keeping my eye on this one through this journey...

[Quintin]

I'll keep updating monthly.we see how it turns out.all and all I'm very happy with this shipment and looks like we will be landing another in Sept.so watch for another journey lol. For next order finance willing ill be getting blue diamond, BD Snake skin and perhaps altum flora and galaxy turquoise

[Quintin]

So its been a rough month. Due to diffficulties beyond our controll we didn't have power for 3 days and a storm following week with another 3days of no power and water overdose of chloromine, I have lost 2 adult discus (one my first ever... Sniff) and 2 of my biggest Tan discus.on a lighter note tans have been relocated to 400l tank.will post pics over weekend.

[VWalker]

Ouch. That's terrible. Sorry to hear and good luck with the rest of your stock.

[Kyla]

awful news, looking forward to pics and hopefully hearing u have some smooth sailing ahead

[Filip]

Look on the brighter side Quintin . You still have a bunch of grow ups to play and entertain with :-).
I hope it never gets to happen to you again .

[brewmaster15]

So its been a rough month. Due to diffficulties beyond our controll we didn't have power for 3 days and a storm following week with another 3days of no power and water overdose of chloromine, I have lost 2 adult discus (one my first ever... Sniff) and 2 of my biggest Tan discus.on a lighter note tans have been relocated to 400l tank.will post pics over weekend.

Sorry to Hear that Quintin!:( hopefully its smooth sailing from here out.

al

[Quintin]

Thanx guys

[Quintin]

August Update.sorry for lowquality pics.no light and using phone.

[Quintin]

Some More

[Quintin]

And more

[Quintin]

almost done

[Quintin]

last ones

[Willie]

Very impressive. Clearly demonstrates the importance of large, frequent water changes.

Good luck, Willie

[Larry Bugg]

These guys are looking great.

[Kingdom Come Discus]

I love these. Please keep us in the loop.

[Phillydubs]

The pattern on that one is quite unique little loopy loops!!

[two utes]

what are your thoughts about the tall once, post 25, 3rd pic on right and post 26, 1st pic on the left....I am not sure if they will continue to look that way as they grow or if they will become rounder, they seem like 'part' bulldog variety...

Nice work with the grow out Quintin. Its great fun raising juvenile discus isn't it? The fact that you have some control on their development is great. Just curious, hows the 'tall one' coming along?

Again. Good job.

[Quintin]

Tall one lol.still bit hi will see in a month and report back.yes like their odd paterns as well.there a spotty leopard one too

[Quintin]

Tried getting better pics.they boomed a bit again.excuse the stunted photo bomber

[Quintin]

some full tank shots

[Dhavalsp]

wow, they growing nicely, you can tell the difference on weekly updates too.... any plans of adding a background? they will look great with some contrast..

[Quintin]

yes eventualy. for now just concentrating on the fish. need too work on better filtration aswell and lid and light

[Quintin]

Sept Update.Pics from a week ago to now.they are doing great and really enjoying them.

[Quintin]

Once again i appoligise for the low quality pics and photo bomb.lol

[Quintin]

more pics

[Quintin]

you can see the one runt in the group but i like him anyway

[Poppa Ryno]

They look good. Nice work.

[Quintin]

thanx

[stretch5]

you have done really well in raising these guys so quickly. They have really nice shape and colour as well congradulations

[Ryan925]

Love the look of these fish. Great work. Love those patterns. Very unique. Is it true that cobalts will lose their markings as they mature?

[Quintin]

Thanx for the compliments. I dont know ryan. These were purchased from the tans as coblts but was explained they dont actually breed cobolt to cobolt. They are from blue diamond ss brood. The ones that dont come out as bd ss.

[Quintin]

Really love the variety. And these fish havent givin me anything but joy.healthy strong discus.will be landing more discus from tony and jeffery tan 14oct so looking forward to that and will do a thread of whole process again and post their progress. Happy Happy.

[pavlos]

Hey mate... The results are really wonderful :D I have done the same test (8 Tony Tan's discus) but with not this result. Your discus progress is amazing. May I ask what do you feed them and what is you WC routine?

[Quintin]

They started on hikari discus bits, beefheart mix and Benkers Discus Royal.at the time had 10 x 4-5cm babies in a std 4ft 200l tank.id do 50% twice a day with vacuum after feed.

From about 10-12cm i moved them to a 1.6m 380l tank and do 50% water change a day now with vacuum after feeds.presently feeding beef heart mix, benkers discus royal aswell as a BS granule and Black High Vitamin Granule From Prof Dirk Belsted here in South Africa.His food is produced in germany. That being said their Staple is beefheart. Other foods are to mix it up abit

[Quintin]

Hey sorry to hear it didnt work out for you pavlos.

[pavlos]

Thanks a lot Quintin!! You have done a great job. It was really weird that from the fish that I got 7 months ago which were 5-6cm, two of them are now 13+cm but the others are smaller. Three of the are only 7-8 cm. Don't really know what has gone wrong. The quality of Tony Tan is really high.

[Quintin]

What strains did u get paul?

[pavlos]

I got 5 Leopards and 3 Leopard Snakeskins. The 3 LSS did not grow well (up to 10 cm). The leopards were better with the two of them getting near 14cm. I do think that there might be a problem with the fishes cause if I was really bad in raising them up I wouldn't have two of them near 14cm...

[rickztahone]

Looking good Quintin

[Quintin]

Thanks

[Filip]

Great progress so far Quintin . Their rounded shape is great for their age .

[Quintin]

Some update pics. Taken a month ago

[Quintin]

Some pics older

[Quintin]

Also excited that marco who organized last shipments is planning a order from breeder Lawrence Soon in sept so will also post updates on that.