Holynehpets
07-15-2020, 05:36 PM
Hello All,
I have 3 pairs that spawned at simmilar times. First batch is 4 weeks old, next patch 2 weeks old and 3rd patch 10 days.
Ideally I would not have moved the 3rd patch until they had gotten a little bigger but the parents both fell ill and had to be removed.
I currently have all 3 batches in a 75 gallon tank. But this 75 gallon tank is plumbed into a 800 gallon system that has all adult tanks on a massive filter system, with lots of water changes (50-100 gallons per day).
I am wondering if this denisty is too high for the tank? My logic was that the smaller fish would school and watch the example of the bigger fry. What is the stocking density of discus fry for 1 month old --> 2 months old and 3 months old? (plan would be to sell off by month 3)
I am noticing that there is strange schooling behavior to the sides of the tank. A picture below to indicate. The airstones were only added to the corners of the tank because the fish where swimming ontop of each other, and at times it looked like there was little movement and the fish were 'ontop of each other'.
So the addition of the airstones was to generate some movement in these corners which has led to the fish looking a little healthier then before.
But anythoughts as to why the fish are schooling like this? Shadows, stress of parental seperation? (the 3rd batch were seperated yesterday and the 2nd batch 2 days ago, the 1st batch seem happy to eat in the middle of the tank but they were seperated about a week ago)128339
I have 3 pairs that spawned at simmilar times. First batch is 4 weeks old, next patch 2 weeks old and 3rd patch 10 days.
Ideally I would not have moved the 3rd patch until they had gotten a little bigger but the parents both fell ill and had to be removed.
I currently have all 3 batches in a 75 gallon tank. But this 75 gallon tank is plumbed into a 800 gallon system that has all adult tanks on a massive filter system, with lots of water changes (50-100 gallons per day).
I am wondering if this denisty is too high for the tank? My logic was that the smaller fish would school and watch the example of the bigger fry. What is the stocking density of discus fry for 1 month old --> 2 months old and 3 months old? (plan would be to sell off by month 3)
I am noticing that there is strange schooling behavior to the sides of the tank. A picture below to indicate. The airstones were only added to the corners of the tank because the fish where swimming ontop of each other, and at times it looked like there was little movement and the fish were 'ontop of each other'.
So the addition of the airstones was to generate some movement in these corners which has led to the fish looking a little healthier then before.
But anythoughts as to why the fish are schooling like this? Shadows, stress of parental seperation? (the 3rd batch were seperated yesterday and the 2nd batch 2 days ago, the 1st batch seem happy to eat in the middle of the tank but they were seperated about a week ago)128339