Breeding Discus in a planted tank

[Apistomaster]

It can be done. This set up has substrate mounded at each back corner with a thin layer across the middle, allowing plants to be used and keeping the planted tank look.
Here is a small pair of Stendker Brilliant Turquoise with their newly(just today) free swimming fry.

There is a main thread chronicling their development from eggs to fish at:
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...267#post473267

[blue acara]

Nice! Like the fish a lot, look a bit like Heckels to me. Quality pic too, nice work.

[Darren's Discus]

Look good Larry, great pics as well they remind me of pics from tropical fish hobbyist binder collection from the 80's real nice.


cheers

[Hungriee]

It can be done. This set up has substrate mounded at each back corner with a thin layer across the middle, allowing plants to be used and keeping the planted tank look.
Here is a small pair of Stendker Brilliant Turquoise with their newly(just today) free swimming fry.

There is a main thread chronicling their development from eggs to fish at:
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...267#post473267

Nice job, I have the same kind of pair which lays eggs for about the 12th time in 2 months. Each time they just end up eating their own eggs. The last time I finally got wigglers but they still ended up eating them

How'd you manage for them to hatch? Usually the 3rd -5th day mine are all gone again.

[Apistomaster]

Everything depends on the fertility and strength of the brooding instincts of your pairs.
My experience with domestic discus is that only about 1 pair out of ever 3 or 4 make good producers. I sell any pair that spawns 12 time without producing fry as a pair that spawns; not as a mated pair. maybe the new owner will have more patience and eventually succeed in raising fry from them? I am just not that patient and always raise more discus than I need to make sure at least one pair is reliable. It is a pinta to have to raise so many just to get one good pair.
I highly recommend buying your breeding stock from someone who has bred the fish themselves. At least that way you know that strain is fertile and has the potential to be good parents.