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    Yes, wow. Eastern North Carolina. That was in the middle of the floods, right?

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    yep
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    The pairs are flirting and cone pecking again. I did all I could do. I changed 1/3 of their water with rain water and gave them big socks of tea as well. Not much rain coming in the foreseeable future and I only have about 30 gallons of rain water left. I hope they get down to business soon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LizStreithorst View Post
    This is great! We are having a huge downpour! My rain water containers are filling up
    That's why there's so much loving in the air!
    At my age, everything is irritating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Willie View Post
    That's why there's so much loving in the air!
    And of course we just had a full moon and the longest lunar eclipse in ages...

    "When the moon hit's your eye like a big pizza pie...."

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    I got a good spawn from the pair I removed from the contest because I thought that the male was infertile and the female was terrorizing all the other fish. I knew that my number one pair was on the verge of spawning after feeding and WC yesterday evening. But my back was hurting so badly that I went to bed to rest at 6 pm. I woke up at 8 so I could lock the chickens in their house. (If I don't do this a critter will get one) I knew that I should check the fish but I figured that the eggs would still be there today and went back to bed. I had a marathon sleep and it did me good, but when I went down to the fish room this morning I saw the female of the number 1 pair guarding 2 eggs. They hadn't just started spawning because there was not a breeding tube in sight. Oh well, I made a mistake and paid for it.

    The number 2 pair is generally a day or 2 behind the number one pair when it comes to spawning. I see no flirty action yet but I'm watching carefully. My old female lays a lot of legs and the Chicago Discus is young and very fertile.
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    Finally something to report. My best pair spawned yesterday afternoon. I pulled the cone, dripped meth blue and put the cone back in the tank. As I was putting the cone back in, my male (my best fish) attacked me. He was so furious he jumped out of the water. Their tank is next to the box I keep my foods in so rather than landing on the floor he just fell a into the plastic bags of fish food.

    He had attacked me once before during a water change. I was surprised at his ferocity because he splashed water all over my face. This dude is a Pitt Bull when it comes to guarding his eggs.

    I'm sure that there is little rain water left in this tank since I ran out and we have had no rain, but the tank is dark with tea so my fingers are crossed once again.
    Mama Bear

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    So are mine Liz, toes too (that hurts a bit).
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    In addition to meth blue/peroxide/whatever, something I had marginal success with was soaking the eggs in distilled water for a few hours about an hour after the spawn. May be worth a shot if they keep giving you a hard time.

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    I'll keep it in mind, Adam.
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    Ho hum...another day another disappointment
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    Oh Liz,
    I was hoping for better news. You know what they say, “Practice makes perfect.” I am disappointed though. I see your new post and my hopes are up, then I sigh with you my friend. I hope we get to celebrate next time. I can always find something to celebrate in the meantime time. Right? Hope your not too disappointed.
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    It's not the disappointment to me now that it was when it first started happening.

    Funny thing is, I have a large spawn of Angels that should free swim today. I had quit breeding Angels since I had way too many and selling on AB is more of a chore than a pleasure. The breeding project with Angels that had been on my mind for a long time was to breed one of my half blacks to one of my Blue Silver pearlscales in the hopes of eventually establish a line of Blue Half Blacks and perhaps even Blue Half Black pearls. I had a pair in a breeding tank and watched week after week as they would spawn. Since I had no tea in the water the eggs would turn white and be eaten. As a test to see if the tea was no longer working I added it this time when I saw the pair getting in the mood. Sure enough, I have a huge spawn.

    I'm back to wondering if the problem is that my existing Discus have low fertility. I know it's the case with one of my males, but he's the one I have have gotten a few wigglers from. I can see no reason why my young home bred male should have fertility problems. The other pair in the contest tank has a Chicago Discus male and the female is one of my existing fish. It seems unlikely that she would produce eggs that were not viable. It's a mystery to me.

    I'm still hoping that the problem is with the hardness of my water but until we have rain there is no way that I can test that theory. Every day the weather says we will have a chance of thunderstorms, some severe. All I ever get is the wind, the thunder, and the lightening.
    Mama Bear

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    Liz, what is your water like?
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    pH 7.2 after aging. kH 4.5. gH 0. I need batteries for my TDS meter but if I remember correctly it was around 100. Lots of people get spawns with numbers far worse than mine.

    I haven't actually tested in ages because my water always tested the same and I never had problems with getting spawns with either RO or the tea until now. And now, it's just the Discus that I am having no luck with. My water comes from a deep aquifer so I don't see that it's likely it would change.
    Mama Bear

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