hudson of sleat
09-25-2008, 03:36 PM
Hi everybody.
My lad and I are trying to get into Discus breeding. I have kept fish for over 40 years and have successfully bread many a fish, apart from Discus. When I first started with fish back in the 1960's, Discus was a hard fish to keep, let alone breed. Now my lad wants to give it a go and I said I would help.
We are using 4 x 50 English imp gallon tanks. All were prepared as the book says using a non fish starter for the sponge filters. That was some 6 to 8 weeks back. We have done all the regular water changes as required. We have also got some platies in one of the tanks, to try and help the filters along. We have 8 young discus at present which we feed on beaf heart and blood worm. the water changes are done after the beaf heart has been eaten. But every time we introduce them to one of the tanks the nitrite goes sky high. I have even taken 100% of the water out and replaced it with the water out of my own fish tank which was showing zero nitrite. 24 hours later with the discus in it is reading a high nitrite level. I am stumped as to what is causing the nitrite levels to go high, and even more stumped as to what to do.
can anybody help us in this area?
Many, many thanks.
Phil
My lad and I are trying to get into Discus breeding. I have kept fish for over 40 years and have successfully bread many a fish, apart from Discus. When I first started with fish back in the 1960's, Discus was a hard fish to keep, let alone breed. Now my lad wants to give it a go and I said I would help.
We are using 4 x 50 English imp gallon tanks. All were prepared as the book says using a non fish starter for the sponge filters. That was some 6 to 8 weeks back. We have done all the regular water changes as required. We have also got some platies in one of the tanks, to try and help the filters along. We have 8 young discus at present which we feed on beaf heart and blood worm. the water changes are done after the beaf heart has been eaten. But every time we introduce them to one of the tanks the nitrite goes sky high. I have even taken 100% of the water out and replaced it with the water out of my own fish tank which was showing zero nitrite. 24 hours later with the discus in it is reading a high nitrite level. I am stumped as to what is causing the nitrite levels to go high, and even more stumped as to what to do.
can anybody help us in this area?
Many, many thanks.
Phil