Sanjay,
Great looking stock!
Whats your plan for the egg yolk mix? Are you using a wet mix smeared.on the rim of tank? I know Cliff here uses egg yolk powder very successfully. I have always used Wattleys egg yolk recipe/technique.
Al
Hi Guys,
This will be my first time trying to raise Discus artificially after loosing hope on the parents raise them lol. So I had two pairs(Red Turqs and Albino Alenquer x Curipera Cross) spawned past Sunday night(5/20/2018) and one set of eggs(Red Turqs) started Hatching last night(5/22) and the other pair eggs hatched over night.
Setup: So I'm setting up a 29g tank and will be floating 2 containers to hold bowls inside. Each container to hold separate batches.
Feeding: Will be adding Egg yolk mix after few hours from free swimming. I also am planning on adding bbs in little portions hoping they would start eating from day 1. Will be feeding every 4 hours, 10pm being the last and 6am being the earliest feeding followed by water changes.
Any expert advice will be appreciated. Here are some pictures, big batches of eggs hatched -
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Red Turqs -
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Albino Alenquer(male) x Curipera Cross (female)
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Sanjay,
Great looking stock!
Whats your plan for the egg yolk mix? Are you using a wet mix smeared.on the rim of tank? I know Cliff here uses egg yolk powder very successfully. I have always used Wattleys egg yolk recipe/technique.
Al
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I was initially planning on going with egg yolk powder. But only place that has it here, sells it by 1lb lol(too much for me for a project I'm not sure of). So this is the plan and I'm sure it was Cliff's comment I read somewhere as a replacement for powder- I will hard boil a egg and press the yolk through a fine mesh so I get powdered(kind of) yolk I will then mix some raw yolk and spirulina powder and a pinch of zooplankton flake(powdered) that I have lying in my fish room.
That sounds alot like the wattley recipe I use. 1 egg yolk raw.. 1 egg yolk from hard boiled and add spirulina powder, I also added powdered krill. It makes a tar like paste.. this you smear above the waterline thinly and let dry 15-20 mins... then raise the water line to the food. Its labor intensive and you need to change the water every 3-4 hours for the next 2 days or so then switch them over to bbs. Many have had success with just going with bbs from the start. Theres a strain of the, the ones from san francisco bay , that are supposed to be smaller than the salt lake strains....those may account for the success.
hth,
Al
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Thanks Al
I don't have Krill powder but I have zooplankton flakes from Brineshrimpdirect. Can I powder that and add ?
This is how I smeared I did it all over the place ... But I follow what you said for day 2 on how to apply the egg mix. Luckily I do have the San Francisco Bay brand I will start adding that from Day 3.
I'm currently fed them 4 times today. Will up the feeding more tomorrow.
Pictures from today -
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Sanjay, next time around wait to feed them until they are swimming. If they are clumped together they wont eat as they are living off their yolk sacs.
hth,
Al
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Your a little ahead of feeding
Start feeding the yolk on Sunday.Otherwise it's looking good.
Cliff
I cannot offer any advice as I have never been in your situation but none-the-less this is a great thread to follow...all the best to you Sanjay! Nice adult pairs btw!
I guess you are right Al ! But this project has been a good learning point for me. Still have about 200+ fry combined. Will try me best to save them.
Thanks Daniel! I hope this thread to be useful to anyone in the hobby. Like the mistakes I did already lol.
Shout out to Al Castro for guiding me with this project.
My attempt 2 is a big hit !!!
With over 100+ fry and only loosing 7 during in this process I think is a big hit
Here is a pic of fry from Day 5 free swimming-
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They are being fed 5 times a day with bbs only.
Looking good Sanjay!
al
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Parents for these fry -
Albino Alenquer(male) x Curipera Cross (female)
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Awesome,
Check out with a closer look there are couple with bent or curly tail.
Cliff
nice work...stunning pair as well! keep at it mate!!