I had the same thing Pat! Marlboro Man decimated the ranks day after day till there were only about 26 left, and by then they were big enough and smart enough to stay away from him. Then the "roller coaster tube of death ride" happened 2 weeks ago and left me with just 14 in the tank. As of tonight, thanks to that hunk of orange eating machine, I have 10 left.
The remaining 10 are pretty darned big, so he's going to have to learned to bite them in half if he wants to eat them. LOL
I think it's a hoot that your school has to live in the overflow. I found cories in mine once, but never had cards in there.
Toni
120g - 10 discus, 4 cory's, 50+ Cardinals for now... give it a month and it'll change!
Toni
120g - 10 discus, 4 cory's, 50+ Cardinals for now... give it a month and it'll change!
Toni
120g - 10 discus, 4 cory's, 50+ Cardinals for now... give it a month and it'll change!
It seems fry would be easy pickins, though! Given that discus are used as surrogates sometimes, and Al has proven that they will raise fry other than discus fry (he used his pair to raise some angelfish), it could be that breeding discus just go into a parenting mode and don't attack fry. Mine were all laying eggs at the time but none were actually successfully hatching/raising fry because of my water hardness. Maybe there's some kind of weird on/off switch in their brain that tells them not to eat fry when they're all in breeding mode. *shrug*
It goes something like this. They eat what you want to keep and ignore the rest.
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
So you're saying discus are like the cats of the fish hobby?
Not sure I would go that far Ryan
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
Omg I put in 30 rummy nose about 6 months ago. I am down to 5. Nice expensive snack.
Sometimes I think the fish eat better then me.
Discus drive me crazy.
Mike
I have found my discus will attack any tetras with red, wether it be eyes, nose, whatever. Ate my neons, cards too. I added some pristellas 6 months ago and haven't lost one. Oops, probably shouldn't have said that .....
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Bill