1.5-2" discus juveniles not colouring up

[Batman]

I have recently been successful in breeding 2 different pairs but am having trouble with my discus colouring up the mother is a blue scribbled and the male blue snakeskin I feed them nls pellet and tetra color flakes blood worm and brine shrimp both reg and spurilina brine water changes daily and sometimes every 2 days 50% any advice or answers would be awesome

[Allwin]

imo coloring is based on its strain/age. It will color up eventually.And also 2inch is pretty babies,so no worries.

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[Keith Perkins]

It's not at all unusual for strains of that type to not be coloring up yet, be patient. I've got RTs 2 1/2" or so just starting to show color.

[Batman]

Awesome thanks guys and also would you recommend still using a uv steralizer after 3" in size or will they be able to fight off most parasites with daily water changes ? I only started using uv after I randomly lost several spawns for no reason one by one after they reached the size of a nickel and couldn't get them past a quarter in size, since the uv they pound the glass for food and have been growing really fast
I appreciate all the advice
Thanks

Adam

[Keith Perkins]

Sorry, I've never used UV. Glad it's seemed to solve the problems you were having. I've never had much trouble with batches beyond 2 months old.

[yim11]

Awesome thanks guys and also would you recommend still using a uv steralizer after 3" in size or will they be able to fight off most parasites with daily water changes ? I only started using uv after I randomly lost several spawns for no reason one by one after they reached the size of a nickel and couldn't get them past a quarter in size, since the uv they pound the glass for food and have been growing really fast
I appreciate all the advice
Thanks

Adam

Your 14 bar (SS) fish will always take longer to color up than the turqs/9 bar fish.

HTHs

[John_Nicholson]

I have raised literally thousands and thousand of discus and I have never used UV. Young discus should require nothing more then clean warm water and lots of food. You might want to check your fish for gill flukes.

-john

[dirtyplants]

My thoughts are that if the fish survive it will be the hardiest, will use of a UV help promote a weaker strain?