Journal - First Pair with fry

[joshvito]

Take a picture of the whole tank and then count them in the picture. it was my understanding that it was only to be 30 fry at dime size, then 8.

Great idea!!

Yes, the official rules were posted Aug. 5th. Apparently, 30 was the amount at dime size; and down to 8 at ~61days.
I guess it's time to move a few to a different section of the fish room.

[joshvito]

I will be taking 12 of these "2 month" old fry to my local fish club meeting today for auction and to turn in for BAP points.
By the end of the week, I will have my best 8 fish sectioned off in their own space for the remainder of the contest.

The fry eating mostly freeze dried and frozen foods at this point, I have weened them off the live BBS. I put a bit of the BBS in the tank, but have been feeding my daily BBS haul to other tanks, one that includes week old babies (second spawn from the parents of these fry).

I plan on starting to feed some frozen enriched beefheart, if I can find it, and some Repashy Superfoods in the coming days.

[Tanmoy]

Awesome

[joshvito]

Day 59 - free swimming
I took all the sponges out and rinsed them thoroughly in a bucket of tank water while performing the daily water change.

The fish are almost exclusively eating freeze dried and frozen foods at this point. I plan on mixing up some Repashy Super Foods tonight. In a couple days, I will select my best 8 and transfer them to their own section of the tank.

Here is a video for progress.



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[joshvito]

Day 59 - free swimming

eating Mysis Shrimp

[Donno]

Thanks for sharing the videos. I really enjoy your thread!

[joshvito]

Day 65 free swimming

My maintenance and my feeding schedule have not changed from what I wrote earlier in this thread. I still continue daily 50% water changes and feeding 3 times a day.

I have weened these fry off of bbs, but I continue to feed crumbled flakes, bloodworms, mysis. I started introducing a small amount of Repashy breed and grow, but the fry don't seem to like it. It mostly sets in the water and slowly dissolves until I remove it the next day. I feed it with the other foods, hoping that they will see it as food. I have a couple other varieties that I will try after I use this up.

I chose the best 8 fish from my group today, and Partitioned them onto their own side of the tank. Here is a fts of the setup. I plan on re-homing most of the rest of the fish over the next few months. Until then, the tank will be shared.


I picked the largest, red eyed, least peppered, roundest shaped fish from the bunch. There are really some disparities in size between the largest and smallest fish. Probably dime-ish to quarter+.

Here is a quick video of my 8 contest fish.



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[joshvito]

Day 72 free swimming

Since separating off the 8 contest fish, I have noticed that they are a bit more tentative about me and food. However this gets better each day, and the fish graze on food all day long.

I am still on a 50% daily WC schedule.
Feeding 3-4 times per day.






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[joshvito]

I'm still on a 50% daily water change schedule. The 8 contest fish are in a divided 55gallon tank. I've slowly been removing fish from the other side of the division. By the time these fish are 5 months old, I plan to have them in the 55 gallons by themselves.

One thing I have learned so far, is that raising discus takes up a lot of space. Ideally, if I was raising these fish for a business, I would like to separate the fish by size every few months. This just isn't feasible with my current tank space constraints.

I also placed some live blackworms in a worm cone feeder last night. I'm not sure they know what to do with the worm cone yet, but I am confident they will figure it out.

One of the biggest questions I have at this point, is I would like to know how my amount of food and schedule compares to the other contestants. Look for a video in the coming days, where I video how much I feed and when.


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[joshvito]

Nothing has changed from my schedule. The parents continue to spawn in the display tank. I just leave them in there, because I do not have any space for more fish at the moment.

PH - 8.0
Nh3/nh4 - 0
TDS - 172

The fish are starting to get color in their fins and most eyes are red.

Day 91 free swimming



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[joshvito]

My 8 contest fish are growing fast, I'll get a picture up of the largest with a tape measure soon.

I did notice that the fish on the other side of the divider seemed to be breathing faster over the last week. I have been keeping up on WC's so I don't believe the issue to be water quality. On account of the smaller fish in the spawn turning dark, appearing to have inflamed red gills, and 6-8 having turned up dead. I decided to treat for gill flukes with API General Cure.

I lowered the water level to just above the sponge filters, leaving about 30gallons. Today is day 1 of treatment, I just plan on following the directions on the package.

Since these fish are in the same tank as my contest fish, I felt the need to document it here in my contest thread.


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[Kingdom Come Discus]

Good luck with them they are coming along very well!!!!!

[rdiscus]

can't view anything ???

[joshvito]

All fish in this tank got a 30 minute 1% salt bath today while I changed 90% of the water.

Here is a quick, shaky video with a tape measure.





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[Eddie]

Looking great!