Orange Crush
08-01-2012, 08:45 PM
Okay, so now I have another pair that decided to start spawning. :(
I started out this hobby of discus keeping thinking I would have a nice 75 G DT of 6 discus. I never looked into breeding because I did not want to do this until we got a bigger place (we are looking to buy a bigger house at the moment but it could be months before we find it, close, and move in) and I honestly thought that since this was my 1st attempt at discus that I would be lucky to keep them alive. Breed? HA!
So a couple of weeks ago I had 2 discus decide to pair up and lay eggs in the DT and were really stressing out the other discus so I had to move them into their own tank for everyone's well being. Now they have attatched fry.
Today I had another 2 discus decide to pair up and lay eggs in the DT and they are beating the Sh*t out of the other 2 discus left in the tank. Grrrr.
So now I need a tank for the attatched fry of the 1st pair to grow out in.
A tank for the other pair,
a tank for their spawn if they end up being a confirmed pair
and another tank to QT some discus to put into the 75 G DT so I do not have just 2 discus in there.
I really do not want to do all of that but I do need to seperate the 4 discus in the 75 G.
Would it work if I bought a 60 G and put the 2 picked on runts into it, let them heal up and leave them there until the fry from the original bredding pair need the tank? Then I could just put the 2 back into the 75 G and hope it works out??? Also, since the 2nd breeding pair will still be in the community DT hopefull the eggs/ wrigglers get eaten.
Thoughts??? (I hope that made sense. lol)
I started out this hobby of discus keeping thinking I would have a nice 75 G DT of 6 discus. I never looked into breeding because I did not want to do this until we got a bigger place (we are looking to buy a bigger house at the moment but it could be months before we find it, close, and move in) and I honestly thought that since this was my 1st attempt at discus that I would be lucky to keep them alive. Breed? HA!
So a couple of weeks ago I had 2 discus decide to pair up and lay eggs in the DT and were really stressing out the other discus so I had to move them into their own tank for everyone's well being. Now they have attatched fry.
Today I had another 2 discus decide to pair up and lay eggs in the DT and they are beating the Sh*t out of the other 2 discus left in the tank. Grrrr.
So now I need a tank for the attatched fry of the 1st pair to grow out in.
A tank for the other pair,
a tank for their spawn if they end up being a confirmed pair
and another tank to QT some discus to put into the 75 G DT so I do not have just 2 discus in there.
I really do not want to do all of that but I do need to seperate the 4 discus in the 75 G.
Would it work if I bought a 60 G and put the 2 picked on runts into it, let them heal up and leave them there until the fry from the original bredding pair need the tank? Then I could just put the 2 back into the 75 G and hope it works out??? Also, since the 2nd breeding pair will still be in the community DT hopefull the eggs/ wrigglers get eaten.
Thoughts??? (I hope that made sense. lol)