Kenny's discus bred for me and I have fertile eggs

[strungout]

I've got questions for u expert breeders if anyone wants to help out:

Do I keep doing water changes?
Do I keep feeding?

What else do I need to know?73982

[magewynd]

Yes.
Yes. If the parents will eat. Sometimes they won't eat for a couple of days.
Read and reread the Breeding sections. Study up on hatching baby brine shrimp and get your eggs and hatchery supplies together. Then study up on what first foods and transitional food you want to use when you wean them off the parents and baby brine shrimp.
Ask more questions.

[chaoslite]

Yes you do water changes and yes you keep feeding. I actually have questions for you though. Is that a community tank? Is it a planted tank with substrate or a bare bottom tank?
The reason I ask is that if it is a community tank the wrigglers will probably get eaten and if it is a planted tank with substrate the wrigglers might get lost in it and not attach.

Mishka

[strungout]

Its a hundred gallon with 5 discus only, I don't know if that classifies as community, barebottom. From what I understand, all I really have to do is the maintenance now and learn how to hatch baby brine then feed. Therefore I have no more questions unless someone can give me a full rundown of what I am supposed to do...This pair is a tiger turk and penang eruption which is pretty badddd a, I wonder how the babies will come out if they don't get killed.

[chaoslite]

It would help if you could separate the parents and wrigglers from the other discus. The other three might eat the fry as soon as they go free swimming. If you could move the remaining discus to another tank you would have a better chance of the fry surviving. The turq is the dominant gene in that mix so I would guess turqs. I could be wrong on that though;)

Mishka

[strungout]

Thank you for help, I have just seperated the three others from the parents

[chaoslite]

Good luck to to you!!

Mishka

[strungout]

Well the eggs hatched for me while I was sleeping but GOT SUCKED UP BY FILTER???? anyone got a picture of a wiggler? I think I see one attached to bottom of tank. At least I know these parents are fertile, but what a loss, or waste...

[strungout]

Actually I think the parents ate them, as I checked the filter and I see no dead bodies or nothing, reading a little the parents are supposed to keep the wrigglers on the breeding site and the filters way on the other side of this 100g tank. Will the parents eventually learn how to raise their babies on their own?

[wdeleon01]

Sometimes it takes some of them Several tries before they get it correctly. Others they get it correctly the first time around.

[strungout]

Well I Hope this time around they get it right, another stab at it:
Hope I get to the wriggler stage this time, such a beautiful pair
This time they went across the tank and spawned on the uv filter, all filters turned off this time.
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[Tobrienne]

Congrats on the latest spawning! It seems that the full moon is causing a lot of that lately! Mine seem to be doing the crazy sexy dance too lol