My First Fry*

[Scribbles]

Your fry look good. I like your tank too.

Chris

[Keith Perkins]

Added a still photo at seven weeks that better shows the color developing.

[Eddie]

Added a still photo at seven weeks that better shows the color developing.

Cool pix, you can see the red in their eyes. Do you have them in a substrate bottom tank?

Take care,

Eddie

[Keith Perkins]

Cool pix, you can see the red in their eyes. Do you have them in a substrate bottom tank?

Take care,

Eddie

It really looks that way in the picture doesn't it. No, that's the rock base that the driftwood is attached to. To bad you can't see how good it looked before I had to reduce it to post it.

[Eddie]

It really looks that way in the picture doesn't it. No, that's the rock base that the driftwood is attached to. To bad you can't see how good it looked before I had to reduce it to post it.

Ah, cool. Doing some great work with them. Just when you think the Adults are your babies and then have some REAL babies.

All the best!

Eddie

[joanr]

They are surely coloring up now, and a lot of blue sheen to the base. I think they will be nice adults! Great job with them!

[GlennR]

Great thread & great fish.

Thanks for sharing.

[Keith Perkins]

They are adorable, look very healthy and happy! Size looks fine for their age. You will always have some smaller than others, just the way it goes. I see they have bars, and some are lighter than others. You won't know for several months what they will look like as adults color wise.

I note yours had bars too. I don't think there are two different colors, I believe it's just the tank lighting giving that appearance on the video. As you say though, time will tell on their eventual coloration. I sure hope I don't run into anything unexpected so I can actually see how they turn out.

Joan - I have to make sure you look at all my videos, you've apparently got quite an eye. I've been reluctant to jump the gun, but it appears to me now that there are going to be some wide variations in the coloration of the fry. A few of them having gotten quite a darkish blue, while the rest remain light.

[joanr]

Yep, that's to be expected when you have a cross such as your pair. I don't know what you were planning to do with the fry, keep some or try to sell them? In either case they look nice and healthy and you can wait and keep a few of the best looking ones for your community tank. If you want to get serious about breeding them it's always best to have a same strain or similiar strain pair to start out with. I couldn't bear to have mine wasting away at the LFS here, and they were not easy to sell since they were a cross, but luckily I finally found some folks who fell in love with all 12 of them because of their nice shapes and dark red eyes. They didn't mind the blue/copperish coloring.

[Scribbles]

Looking good!

Chris

[Keith Perkins]

I don't know what you were planning to do with the fry, keep some or try to sell them? In either case they look nice and healthy and you can wait and keep a few of the best looking ones for your community tank.

A community tank is what got me into this mess in the first place. I just bought a nice group of 2 1/2 inch assorted discus and the next thing I know I have two spawning pair. If the second pair get it right some day I'm really going to be wondering what to do. I have a couple of individuals who are interested in a portion of the fry and a couple "local" fish stores that actually know something about discus who will take the rest. The one thing about being in Wisconsin is there aren't many discus available, makes the better LFS anxious to get any. I wish this pair was matched, and I wouldn't at all mind getting a good male RT, but so far I haven't pursued it.

[Keith Perkins]

I know I'm biased, but here's a pretty cool picture of the parents latest effort.

[Eddie]

Thats a nice size spawn.

All the best,
Eddie