egg eating after raising previous spawns

[moik]

I have a proven pair with 3 sucessful spawns under their belts.as of this past friday they laid a clutch of eggs of 200 or better .as of now they are slowing eating them down to about a 100 at the best . They never needed to have the eggs screened before.The fertility rate was very high (only seen a handful that was not fertile) My question to you is, do discus sometimes pull off a real good spawn then decide to do dumb stuff like this when they want or should I let them go and see if they wise up or a screen over their eggs is in their future?

[american breeder]

I have a proven pair with 3 sucessful spawns under their belts.as of this past friday they laid a clutch of eggs of 200 or better .as of now they are slowing eating them down to about a 100 at the best . They never needed to have the eggs screened before.The fertility rate was very high (only seen a handful that was not fertile) My question to you is, do discus sometimes pull off a real good spawn then decide to do dumb stuff like this when they want or should I let them go and see if they wise up or a screen over their eggs is in their future?
they probably need a rest

[moik]

what do you feel is the best way for that? please elaborate please

[Carol_Roberts]

"Rest" means to stop breeding. Put in a divider, pull one of the fish or increase water hardness (so eggs don't hatch). Clean tank and feed meaty foods to get back in condition.

[Rod]

I like to put the pair into a tank with other adult discus for a rest. Generally i'll let them raise 3 batches then rest them for 2 or 3 months.