Red turquoise discus, breed and raised in Alba Iulia, Romania

[andreiburnete]

Hy there! I am a discus lover from Alba Iulia, Romania and I want to present my discus fish.
I Have them from 3 generations and now they are almost perfect (for me of course).
I will present you some kind of a time line starting from the first pair i had and breed.
So, they are the Grand parents, the first pair i had from a friend:
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Female1c433.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEu)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Male91bd4.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEE)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Pair45482.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEL)
This are their fries, at about 8 months:
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Youngfry11bf47.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEQ)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Youngfry21e660.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEs)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Youngfry35c545.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEH)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Youngfry41eeae.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEP)
This is the pair that i kept from that generation:
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Firstpairfrommyfries1e13d0.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEV)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Firstpairfrommyfries32cb7.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZE4)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/FirstpairThefemale030f8.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEp)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/FirstpairThemale2cb9a.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZE5)\
Ant now that pair with fryes:
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Pairwithfryes204354.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEd)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Pairwithfryes3b8817.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZEg)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Pairwithfryes0a1e9.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLK)
The fryes at about 3 monyhs:
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Pui13883b.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLl)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Pui215e0a.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLq)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Pui335300.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLz)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/Pui456e8a.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLA)
The same fryes at about 8 monhs:
http://www.plici.ro/images/1-1400581777.jpg
http://www.plici.ro/images/2-1400581917.jpg
http://www.plici.ro/images/3-1400581944.jpg
http://www.plici.ro/images/5-1400582064.jpg
http://www.plici.ro/images/8-1400582117.jpg
And finaly the same fries are now adult and they look like this:
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/avatarea538.th.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLZ)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7466c2ae9.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZL2)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7493a8607.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLD)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_74975a7d0.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLI)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_752113afe.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLO)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_752416e36.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLS)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7532727e4.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLe)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7543e2be2.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLo)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_755123990.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLv)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7561d8346.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZL0)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7576d666a.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZL3)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7600c1c78.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZL9)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7601d14bd.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLi)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7609e2a94.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLj)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7620ef040.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLw)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_76212753f.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLa)
http://img.plici.ro/images/2015/01/25/DSC_7626aa291.md.jpg (http://img.plici.ro/image/ZLb)
I hope that you enjoy the pictures an also i hope that if there are some spelling mistakes you will ignore them!

[Rick S]

Very nice photos and Discus. Don't worry about any spelling mistakes we can figure it out. Can you tell us how you grew such beautiful Discus, things like water change schedule, food, tank sizes, any health issues.


Good Luck, Rick

[rickztahone]

Beautiful. That takes some dedication and know-how. I love the straight lined ones. Is that something you would like to improve with this project, or do you have another goal in mind?

My 2 cents? They look great already, but, if you do not have a long term goal set already, maybe try to breed an eye that is more uniformly red. That is the only thing that stands out to me that would improve this breeding project.

Thanks for sharing such great pictures.

[John_Nicholson]

Very nice.

-john

[Joe]

Nice looking!!

[andreiburnete]

Very nice photos and Discus. Don't worry about any spelling mistakes we can figure it out. Can you tell us how you grew such beautiful Discus, things like water change schedule, food, tank sizes, any health issues.


Good Luck, Rick

Hi Rick! Until the age of 4-5 months, i've changed the water twice a day 50%, so 100% total, after that age until today i am changing, just once a day 50%, after the last meal of the day (The tank stays so, clean over the night).
I feed them 4-5 times a day with, 2 meals of beefheart mixture (I make it myself, and I add 25% spinach) , 2 meals of tetra discus granules, and one with frozen artemia shimps. I am doing this for a long time. Until the age of 3-4 months, i've also gaved them a meal of grindal worms.
The tank size is 200 litres, and I didn't had any real health issues.

[andreiburnete]

Beautiful. That takes some dedication and know-how. I love the straight lined ones. Is that something you would like to improve with this project, or do you have another goal in mind?

My 2 cents? They look great already, but, if you do not have a long term goal set already, maybe try to breed an eye that is more uniformly red. That is the only thing that stands out to me that would improve this breeding project.

Thanks for sharing such great pictures.

Hi!
Now I have a biotope project going, and i think that, this is the point where I'll be changing the fishes.
I'll keep just few of those above, for the show tank at the office, ant I plan to trade the others for some curipera, or something more naturally looking fries.
The eye color was a problem for me to, but I now consider that, it would take at least 2-3 generations to solve it.
For the moment i'am satisfied with what I achieved, and I'll swich my atention on other strains.
Also thank all of you, for the apreciations!

[elleng]

Nice fish!!!!

[Kirbs]

Nice looking fish! Good job!

[Rod]

Very nice :)

[timmy82]

Very nice good effort with the generations!

[Discus Hawk]

Extraordinary looking discus. You have done a very good job with those. Beautiful.

[Departure]

Very nice looking discus, you should be very proud of such efforts