The benefits of Vacation

[Bethzb]

After being away since Thursday, I came home to wriggler's. My brilliant turq male is fertile. Yay!

[Willie]

Congratulations! I find my fish enjoy a vacation - away from me.

Willie

[Jenene]

Sure proof of when the cat's away! The mice got busy! How about some pics?

[Bethzb]

Sure proof of when the cat's away! The mice got busy! How about some pics?

Have to wait till they come out from the other side of the branch. Wrigglers are at the stage where they are starting to clump together so they should be swimming soon. Of course, in the current tank that'll be their death sentence. This particular pair had spawned at least a dozen times and I wasn't setting anything up as a breeder tank until I knew the male was fertile. That and who knows what this batch would look like as it is a brilliant turq with a leopard snakeskin. If however, the fry manage to survive a couple weeks or so, I'll move them to a grow out tank. That and I may do a breeder tank for this pair anyway just to see if I can get a batch of fry grown out.

[Bethzb]

Fry all gone. As soon as they started free swimming the rose line barbs picked them off like torpedoes. Now the question is, do I remove the successful pair into the 75 gallon and let them try again or, do I remove the rose line barbs to the 75 gallon and leave the pair where they're comfy in the 125? Has anyone actually tried to breed and raise a discus brood in a normal tank setup with other fish?