Discus fry(with pics)...any advise
- Thread starter Bderick67
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Looks like they are doing fine with the parents. Let them stay a while. It will make the parents more likely to parent raise fry.
Davey_8313;1215275; said:
Thanks, Currently I am just going to raise the fry for a learning experience. In the furture once I get my fish room built I would like to breed some discus, though I will go with some more exotic strains.
Most likely once these fry are large enough, I'll try to sell them.
Good job ! Nice discus. Are you going to raise them to maturity since the parents are two different strains? I dont know what youd get mixing those two, but it could be interesting.
Leave the fry with thier parents for at LEAST another week or so. They need thier parents slime coat for survival.
Yeah, that makes sense. If you do decide to sell 'em, I might buy some depending on if you do shipping or not. Good luck...Bderick67;1215302; said:
leave the fry with the parents for as long as you can... the fry feed off the parents slime coat.. so you really have nothing to do.. after about 2 weeks start throwing some small food in there.. decaps brine, or frozen baby brine.. this will help the parents keep up with the demand of the slime coat... on the 4th week I would get ready to pull them,, they should be big by now, and eating like crazy.. near the end of the 3rd week, or the beginning of the 4th watch out for sores on the parents sides.. if you see it, pull the fry right away.. the parents aren't producing enough slime coat, and the fry are eating the parents flesh.. and you don't want the parents to catch anything, and die...
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