Hi. My name is Louisa and I am a new member, and not so experienced with discus.
My husband and I have an aquarium with 9 discus which we bought second hand in April from a private person.
We absolutely love and admire them! They are so beautiful and so intelligent!
We have been reading a lot about discus, and and ours now formed couples and started laying eggs, which did not develop because the water here is very hard.
We have 5 females that are laying eggs. So we decided to build 2 breeding tanks and moved 2 couples there. One couple was successful right away and have
20 1 month old babies. They are still feeding sometimes from the parents, but eat BBS and feed on parents food, too. The parents are amazingly good.
Couple 2 were not successful until a week ago. 40 babies hatched, and eventually attached to the father. The mother didn’t seem attentive, but
eventually would have the babies for short periods. Yesterday I thought it strange that the male seemed angry with her and was biting her, but I thought it was
because she was not “pulling her weight”. This morning I had a big shock when the week old babies had all disappeared and there were new eggs on the heater!
I am totally shocked and sick to my stomach. The babies were doing so well! And we were looking so forward to seeing them develop like the ones in the other
tank. These new eggs will not hatch because they are on the heater, but I don’t know if I should allow them to breed again. can someone advise me?
I will post some pictures later on.
