hello from a new member :)

[windalyn]

Hello everyone!
My name is Amy and I have been keeping discus for about a year now. This forum has been such a Huge help for me. All your wonderful advise has really helped me out!
I hope its ok that I posted a couple of pics of my discus.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/windalyn/bigred_zps8f28affd.jpg (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/windalyn/media/bigred_zps8f28affd.jpg.html)
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/windalyn/bigblue_zps1660a251.jpg (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/windalyn/media/bigblue_zps1660a251.jpg.html)
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/windalyn/snowfire_zps42bacb04.jpg (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/windalyn/media/snowfire_zps42bacb04.jpg.html)
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/windalyn/discusgroup_zps824816e2.jpg (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/windalyn/media/discusgroup_zps824816e2.jpg.html)

thank you

[rickztahone]

Welcome to SimplyDiscus Amy! Good looking group. I really like that second one. Blue Turq?

[ericNH]

Your tank looks healthy. If you keep your tank like that, it's clear you love the hobby :)

[windalyn]

Thank you both!
Yes he is a blue turq. I'm lucky enough to have a local breeder, and that is where I found him.
Thank you so much for the compliment! :D I have been working very hard to keep my tank as good as I can get it.

[Dudley Eirich]

Very nice! You are doing a great job for your first year. I usually prefer a bare bottom tank, but yours is very clean and your discus are healthy. I hope that you continue to enjoy the hobby for years to come.

[windalyn]

Thank you Dudley. I thought about going bare bottom , but my husband would have nothing of it. So I that's why I ended up going planted. Lucky for me , he does help with all the water changes. lol

-Amy

[alexdeskjet]

THEY LOOK GREATS

[Dudley Eirich]

Thank you Dudley. I thought about going bare bottom , but my husband would have nothing of it. So I that's why I ended up going planted. Lucky for me , he does help with all the water changes. lol

-Amy

Amy, I tried a planted tank one time and it wasn't a failure by any measurement, but I did find it harder to keep clean. I had adult fish in the tank at the time and I think that adults handle a planted tank reasonably well as long as it is maintained well. However, I like to grow out my adult fish from the fry stage. I like to see them grow, change and color up. However, to grow large adult fish from the fry stage requires feeding numerous times per day and that requires extra-special care with good cleaning and lots of water changes. All of that is much more difficult to do adequately with a planted tank. Are your fish old enough to pair off and breed? Any interest in doing that? Have fun whatever you decide to do.

[Discus-n00b]

Welcome to the forum Amy!

[windalyn]

Thank you everyone!

Dudley, I had thought that breeding Discus was out of my league. Till just this week the blue turq shown above and a red turq I had gotten over last weekend paired up!

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/windalyn/20140930_205542_1-Copy_zps924f8d21.jpeg (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/windalyn/media/20140930_205542_1-Copy_zps924f8d21.jpeg.html)

and here is the pair

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/windalyn/turqpair_zps6fd24ec1.jpg (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/windalyn/media/turqpair_zps6fd24ec1.jpg.html)

[DLFL]

Wow that was quick! Are they in their own tank?

[musicmarn1]

looks like thats a community tank with the egg shot, black gravel still :) but grats Amy !! happy discus lay eggs :)

[jmf3460]

beautiful tank and beautiful fish OP what is the footprint of the tank, it looks like it might be a cube tank.

[windalyn]

Sorry it took me so long to respond. Its been quite busy around here! Thank you all for the wonderful compliments.
to answer some questions.

I moved the pair to a breeder tank. I had to set up the tank fast so I used only water from the main tank as well as filter and substrate media.
My tank is actually a long and tall style, but its right next to the double glass doors with the large white vertical shades. They keep reflecting in my pictures.

As for how my discus are doing...
I did have another pair spawn in the main tank while this pair spawned in the breeder tank, however those eggs were quickly eaten within a few days. Sad, as none of those turned white.
The eggs in the breeder tank though were not so lucky. Id say about 75% turned white. Mom kept fanning them for a good while, but in the end Dad scarfed both good and bad eggs. I moved the pair back to the main tank and am now letting the breeding tank cycle properly.

Now though it looks like its all starting over as the same courting behaving is starting up again! Im even considering placing a breeding cone in the main tank. What do you all think?

thanks again!
-Amy

[Dudley Eirich]

Hi Amy,
Congratulations on having two breeding pairs! Depending on the age of the discus, they will probably need to go through a few rounds of breeding before they settle well into the parental role. Sometimes keeping them in the main tank with other discus pushes them down that path a bit faster, since they have to defend the eggs and that process stimulates that parental instinct, but the fry (if you get any) likely won't get to the free-swimming stage before they are eaten and you may have a lot of fighting going on in the process. It all depends on what you want to put up with I guess. I don't know what your water parameters are so I don't know what the hatch rate will turn out to be. In any case, it looks like you have some happy and healthy pairs and you can take the breeding aspect of discus keeping as far down the road as you want.
Dudley

[Quintin]

Hi and welcome.id put the cone in breeding tank not community tank.Hope it pans out well for you.good luck