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From: seth@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (peter.r.clark..jr)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Request for Discus Breeding Information
Message-ID: <7524@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 90 19:26:22 GMT
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In article <54496@ccicpg.UUCP>, evans@ccicpg.UUCP ( Scott Evans) writes:
[stuff deleted about the startup of getting discus to breed]
> I finally got tired of that and tried the recommendations in the Watley book.
> I removed the eggs (they were spawned on a rock) and placed them in a bare
> 10 gallon with only enough water to cover the eggs on the rock, provided an
> air stone running just enough to keep the water circulating and added in
> the methylene blue to keep them from fungusing.  I believe it takes about 72
> hours for them to hatch (haven't done this for about 4 years now) and they
> did that just fine.  I think it took another couple of days before they loose
> their yolk sac and become free swimming which was when my problems began.  Young
> discus typically feed off the slime on their parents for the first week or so
> and you have to supply a subsititute for this.  Watley recommends egg yolk that
> is strained through a very fine mesh (panty-hose works fine) and smeared at the
> water line of the tank.  Unofortunately you have to do this quite a few times
> a day and make a significant water change after each feeding.  Since I work I
> was not up to the task and thus was unable to get past this stage which I tried
> a few times.

I'm curious as to why you didn't try putting the parent discus in with the
hatchlings after they hatched? Or maybe use some sort of net to isolate the
eggs from the entire community w/o removing them, and then again allowing
the parent discus to go in with the hatchlings for the hatchlings to feed
off of them?



Pete Clark Jr.
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