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After a long period of trying, my pair has finally spawned successfully (fingers crossed)! Out of about 40–50 wigglers, around 80% have attached to the parents as of today. The rest are still hovering near the cone, and I can see the parents actively trying to guide them to attach as well.
I didn’t need to take out the sponge filter or lower the water level — the parents have been excellent at swimming around and helping almost all the fry attach. It's been amazing to watch.
While I’ve kept both community and discus-only tanks for a long time (including raising young discus from about 1"+), this is my first time having a successful spawn and trying to raise fry. I’d love any feedback or tips from those more experienced.
Here’s what I’m currently doing and planning:
Does this all sound okay? Please let me know if there’s anything I should not be doing, or something important I’m missing. All tips, suggestions, and advice are more than welcome!
Thanks in advance!
I didn’t need to take out the sponge filter or lower the water level — the parents have been excellent at swimming around and helping almost all the fry attach. It's been amazing to watch.
While I’ve kept both community and discus-only tanks for a long time (including raising young discus from about 1"+), this is my first time having a successful spawn and trying to raise fry. I’d love any feedback or tips from those more experienced.
Here’s what I’m currently doing and planning:
- Water changes: I haven’t done any water changes since the eggs appeared. Planning to restart 50% daily WCs in another 2–3 days.
- Feeding the parents: Currently feeding ½ cube of dried blackworms. Planning to increase to regular feeding of a full cube in the morning and feed beef heart mix at night.
- Feeding fry: Plan to introduce baby brine shrimp (BBS) in about a week. Hoping it would help both the fry and parents.
- Moving fry: Planning to move the fry to their own 55g tank in about 2–3 weeks from now (assuming ~60% survival or smaller tank if lower survival). Plan to feed 4–5 times a day initially BBS, crushed flakes and some BH mix and do 100% daily water changes once they’re moved.
- Water parameters: The breeding tank is running on ~90% RO mix. Once fry are moved, I’ll gradually reduce the RO ratio to transition them to my tap water, which has high TDS (~450).
Does this all sound okay? Please let me know if there’s anything I should not be doing, or something important I’m missing. All tips, suggestions, and advice are more than welcome!
Thanks in advance!
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