x2h
01-04-2012, 02:38 PM
I have been dormant on this forum for a couple months, because of sadness. Today I feel I am strong enough to share it. Basically back in November or late October, one day, my pair of discus was spawning as usual. And the female just stopped in the middle, with her belly still swollen, and she just wouldn't do it anymore. Instead she started hanging around the cone trying to spawn but something is preventing her from laying the eggs. After a couple hours she gave up and stayed still in the corner. She was like this for two days, and then died. My heart was broken. She was around 4 inches when I bought her, and around 5 inches when she died. :cry:
Her widow, the male, has grown to around 6 inches now. He is the only discus in the tank, with some bloodfin tetras. He eats and plays normal, but I don;t know how good it is to be alone. I've heard discus are supposed to be social animals.
I am going to buy some 4 to 5 inch discus (of different strains) to make a group of six. My tank is 75 gallon. My wish: buy all males so that no pairing will occur, and therefore no drama in the tank.
I don't know where I can buy proven males. Never bought from any online source (the current discus are from a SD member locally, and he got them from Kenny originally), so very little idea how to do this. Probably no one has that since it's hard to sex them unless they spawn.
Maybe the only way is to buy a group and when some of them pair up, sell the females and keep males, and repeat this. But that sounds like an expensive plan.
Any suggestions? Please help me.
Her widow, the male, has grown to around 6 inches now. He is the only discus in the tank, with some bloodfin tetras. He eats and plays normal, but I don;t know how good it is to be alone. I've heard discus are supposed to be social animals.
I am going to buy some 4 to 5 inch discus (of different strains) to make a group of six. My tank is 75 gallon. My wish: buy all males so that no pairing will occur, and therefore no drama in the tank.
I don't know where I can buy proven males. Never bought from any online source (the current discus are from a SD member locally, and he got them from Kenny originally), so very little idea how to do this. Probably no one has that since it's hard to sex them unless they spawn.
Maybe the only way is to buy a group and when some of them pair up, sell the females and keep males, and repeat this. But that sounds like an expensive plan.
Any suggestions? Please help me.