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    Gabriel,
    Thats the start of a great thread. These fish will be very challenging to grow out. Lots of food, lots of clean water. Hoping they do well for you. It will be an interesting read here!

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    Thanks Al. I hope it turns out well. On another note I might as well post the good with the bad. So, I made a rookie move and ran my aged water container down to low and burned up the heaters in there. Note to self: unplug the heaters! I was in luck as my local Pet Land has heaters 50% off right now, whew!

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    Just a few shots before bedtime. Its amazing how calm and chilled they are when theres a storm going on. These shots where much later but I did notice it today and a few times before. I have noticed that peppering comes and goes with mood swings. Its kinda like misplaced aggression bars. Aggression freckles lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gabriel13 View Post
    Just a few shots before bedtime. Its amazing how calm and chilled they are when theres a storm going on.
    Storms do magic stuff for some fish. Most cories I've kept get especially giddy in stormy weather. Only happens a few times a year though in Phoenix.

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    I’m jealous of your discus. I can relax and watch a storm but feel guilty about those snacks and the “thickness” ha ha
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    Will be so fun to watch these guys get bigger. I noticed you kept a white background that is a good move when growing pigeon strain
    Painting the bottom white(along with the background) also made a ton of difference for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pices View Post
    I’m jealous of your discus. I can relax and watch a storm but feel guilty about those snacks and the “thickness” ha ha
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    Lol Patty. Yeah I tend to snack a lot during storms myself. It can get a little rough lol!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sanjay21 View Post
    Will be so fun to watch these guys get bigger. I noticed you kept a white background that is a good move when growing pigeon strain
    Painting the bottom white(along with the background) also made a ton of difference for me.
    Thanks for the advice on painting the bottom white. I wish I had. The tank does have white Styrofoam under it but I don't think it helps much lol.

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    I lost a baby on friday It just zoned out and started to isolate itself and stopped eating. Later the rest of the group started the same type behavior. So.... I had noticed earlier when I separated the group that they were more skittish and just not like they were in a big group. That being said I reunited the group and now have 11 in the tank. They are back to normal now and loving the larger school. I think they got depressed. I will thin the group down again once they put on some real size later on. For now they will all be together.

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    Oh that’s too bad Gabriel. It sounds like you figured it out pretty quick though. I didn’t realize what a challenge these grow outs could be. This is a great teaching tool for us.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gabriel13 View Post
    I lost a baby on friday It just zoned out and started to isolate itself and stopped eating. Later the rest of the group started the same type behavior. So.... I had noticed earlier when I separated the group that they were more skittish and just not like they were in a big group. That being said I reunited the group and now have 11 in the tank. They are back to normal now and loving the larger school. I think they got depressed. I will thin the group down again once they put on some real size later on. For now they will all be together.
    Sorry to hear that Gabe!
    Unless you see external parasite related disease I would not separate babies at this age. It gives them more stress. Glad you moved them back together, they would like to school at this age. Don't bother separating them anytime soon. Just good water changes will do it, clean water is all they need

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pices View Post
    Oh that’s too bad Gabriel. It sounds like you figured it out pretty quick though. I didn’t realize what a challenge these grow outs could be. This is a great teaching tool for us.
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    Thank you Patty. I really got bummed out about but lesson learned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sanjay21 View Post
    Sorry to hear that Gabe!
    Unless you see external parasite related disease I would not separate babies at this age. It gives them more stress. Glad you moved them back together, they would like to school at this age. Don't bother separating them anytime soon. Just good water changes will do it, clean water is all they need
    Thanks Sanjay. This is something that I will always remember. Thanks for the words of wisdom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brewmaster15 View Post
    Gabriel,
    Thats the start of a great thread. These fish will be very challenging to grow out. Lots of food, lots of clean water. Hoping they do well for you. It will be an interesting read here!

    good Luck!

    al
    Al as yuo know I will soon be a discus newbie, so why do you say they will be difficult to grow out? What do you "see"? Cheers mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by danotaylor View Post
    Al as yuo know I will soon be a discus newbie, so why do you say they will be difficult to grow out? What do you "see"? Cheers mate
    I think Al was referring that it is difficult to grow out discus this young well. Lots of food and water changes. I do not think Al was suggesting this group is harder compared to another group of young discus of the same age.
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