German or Asian ?

[coralbandit]

Good to see you Tom !

[Acerrato]

You already know my answer!

[captainandy]

Interested in finding out why it seems to be stated is fact that German fish are bigger and are easier to breed.

I have both Asians and Germans and the ones from Kenny can he have grown much faster have their breeding tubes are always down and pairs have paired off already. Both obtained at similar times and at similar sizes. Also the quality, colors and shape are more appealing to me, from the Asians.

Finally, I had been out of it for a number of years but in the early 2000 and this did only while discus.

The colors and patterns have certainly changed over the past 15 years and I wonder if man-made hybrid's have been introduced to the Rivers in Brazil.

[RogueDiscus]

The colors and patterns have certainly changed over the past 15 years and I wonder if man-made hybrid's have been introduced to the Rivers in Brazil.

I think the idea is even if they were introduced, they would pretty quickly become mutts and they would blend back in to the natural strains. The ones that were white or particularly bright would also be easier targets for predators.

[Moreetta]

Asian works best and tastes best.

[LizStreithorst]

Do you eat your culls, Moreetta? I hear that Discus are very bony.

[coralbandit]

I will go out on limb and say Hans or his staff hand feed his fish .
I have still been struggling to get my new guys eat ..They will eat what I want them to .
In this case they are going to be fed freeze black worms ,Kens grow meal and frozen blood worms .I use Boyds Vitamins.
They are reluctant to eat the cube off the glass. I will admit I am spoiled and my fish attack food like piranha .
I took a cube and held it in the tank and after the initial 5 seconds of shock the fish saw my fingers!
They swarmed my hand and ate the whole cube !
I train fish but I did not teach them that ...5 days in tank first time offered food from hand ..
Now the game is on !

[LizStreithorst]

These are the Hans fish that you bought from your LFS, right?

[coralbandit]

These are the Hans fish that you bought from your LFS, right?

Yes ..He tags me every time !
I was supposed to go to DiscusMadness but that will be another day .
He had just got in 10 sets of 2 Friday,I picked them up Saturday morning .
I picked them from his shipping ticket[invoice] from Hans ,as I have no clue what was sent ..

[LizStreithorst]

I remember, Just wanted to be sure these were the ones. If the invoice was from Hans the fish were from Hans. My Hans fish came in hungry. I've heard people say that a female spawned on the side of the bag en rout to him FedEx overnight. That said, I also know that LFS's get the poorest doers and the lesser quality. Have you seen them poop yet?

[coralbandit]

Yea everyday I cleaning their poop.
They are healthy ,far from perfect though ..
I could have waited till this all blows over but they were on store credit [from rams] so I figured what the heck !
I will be blessed if I get one pair but you know what I want !

[LizStreithorst]

I don't guess you have any live blackworms? They can't resist the blackworm's wiggling factor. Pat uses them and I used to, but they have become expensive. Mosquito larvae are even better and they're free but it's too early for you up there. If they're healthy and well cared for they should eat live wiggling stuff. If you are sure they are all fat and healthy do as you plan.

[coralbandit]

Only live food I have is BBS..
I am the unconventional keeper !

[LizStreithorst]

I understand.

[RogueDiscus]

Wow. Your hand but not the glass!. I'd bet they'll go for the glass eventually. I'm with you on the live foods.