Courting The Leopard

[Charlyc11]

Today after some culling.

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[brewmaster15]

Chuck, welcome to discus breeding! Its either feast or famine!

[danotaylor]

Cool beans Chuck. Got a good size batch to work with there mate!

[Iminit]

Congrats!! Left a message for you on fishlore .

[Charlyc11]

Well I don't think these guys are going to make it, they been dropping like flies. I think I am down to half between culling and sudden death. The other 29 with the other fry are ok and they get the same regimen.

[danotaylor]

Sorry to hear that Chuck. I haven’t been in a position to raise discus fry but I recall reading somewhere here, perhaps authored by Liz (I could be wrong) about “cleaning” fry of gill flukes using PP at a certain stage of their development. Anyone confirm?

[LizStreithorst]

I said something close to that Danny. I said that it was a good idea to clean up the parents before you wanted to breed them. I wormed them, treated them for hex, and used PP for flukes. PP has fallen into disrepute since then. I think most folks use formalin.

[CliffsDiscus]

Possible Oodinium coming from the brineshrimp. When this happen usually one of two will die first, but so there are still 100 left
not to worry but then every day there are some dieing till also the whole batch is gone. The treatment I use is 37% formalin as soon as I see one dieing, this will stop it immediately.

[danotaylor]

I said something close to that Danny. I said that it was a good idea to clean up the parents before you wanted to breed them. I wormed them, treated them for hex, and used PP for flukes. PP has fallen into disrepute since then. I think most folks use formalin.

Thanks for clarifying Liz!!