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bah-Female Discus eating her own eggs

Discussion in 'Cichlids' started by noshow discus, Jul 12, 2008.

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    noshow discus Thread Starter New Member

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    she has laid eggs every other day for about a week now and she eats them within two hours <yes it is her and not him or the angels i watch her eat them>
    the water is perfect but the last 3 times he hasnt done his job....yes i must have the only MALE in the world who doesnt want to do it....<i have gotten 6 batches from this pair>
    Maybe i should drop another male Discus in the tank and see what will happen. Any thoughts?
     
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    Re: bah

    The female discus ate her eggs?
     
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  3. noshow discus

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    Re: bah

    yes she usually eats 2 batches then will hatch out a batch
     
    noshow discus, Jul 13, 2008
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  4. Anonymous

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    breeding tank? for younger, non-experienced discus this is common, they are not sure they can protect them any longer, so they eat the eggs. Rams will do this too
     
    Anonymous, Jul 14, 2008
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  5. noshow discus

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    Re: bah

    heh 35 gal tall with 3 angels in it and they have breed out about 5 batches of fry to support my hobby so far.
    I dont know what she is doing now tho
     
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    wat the heck are u thinkin man??!?! of course they'll eat eggs!!!! they are scared of the angels eating them, angels are verocious!!!

    minimum sizes are:

    20 regular for 1 pair of breeding discus

    30 gallon for a pair of breeding angels.

    thats why ur discus wont leave eggs to protection only!!!

    :eek:

    (not tryin to be mean fyi ;) )
     
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  7. noshow discus

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    ok well i took the 3 angels out for 4 months and they stoppped breeding altogether so i put 3 back in and with in two days i had eggs <roughly 200> andthen freeswimmers then fry grew them out and traded 125 of the juvies for a completet 125 gal tall..
    Dont ask me how or why but those two seem to like the angels in the tank.
     
    noshow discus, Jul 15, 2008
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    so wat fish do you have in the tank with the discus and how big is it?
     
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  9. noshow discus

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    ok here ya go this is the breeding misfits

    ai292.photobucket.com_albums_mm24_noshowdiscus_th_breeding002.jpg
     
    noshow discus, Jul 15, 2008
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    Re: bah

    and here are some of the rest in various tanks.....


    ai292.photobucket.com_albums_mm24_noshowdiscus_th_breeding002.jpg
    ai292.photobucket.com_albums_mm24_noshowdiscus_th_discus011.jpg
    ai292.photobucket.com_albums_mm24_noshowdiscus_th_discus004.jpg
    ai292.photobucket.com_albums_mm24_noshowdiscus_th_fish006.jpg
    ai292.photobucket.com_albums_mm24_noshowdiscus_th_fish003.jpg
     
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  11. Anthony

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    What size tank is that ?

    I read before that one pair of Discus should be kept in a 40 gallon.
     
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  12. Anonymous

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    Back in the 80's when I had lots of room and large tanks..I seperated my egg eating discus from her eggs, and raised them similar as you would angelfish eggs..started with a 5 gal and a bubbler, I never used the blue junk..but did daily water changes, I reared 3 hatches this way and then let the parents try..it worked, she didn't eat the eggs..you can also try a divider between the momand her eggs / the rest of your tank, she may be exhausting herself trying to defend them..good luck, beautiful discus tanks..
     
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  13. noshow discus

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    Re: bah

    Anthony its a 35 gal tall
     
    noshow discus, Jul 16, 2008
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  14. Anonymous

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    if its a 35 gallon tall only 1 pair of discus should be kept in there. NO OTHER FISH, maybe some plants and a brick breeding cone for discus, but no other fish. NONE
     
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    heh ya ya i know everyone says 10 gal per discus and adult angel
    and i have an adult pair of discus and 3 subadult angels in a 35 gal with a HOT 350 mag filter on it.
    the last spawn was tues and she left them alone for 2 days and then ate them and now she has spawned again today at 4 pm est <yes i know the norm is 7 days between spawns> and i watched the male pass over them
    Yes the angels are still in the tank and i have yet to see them even get near he eggs.
    Now all i can do is wait this is the 7 spawn she has had with out having any freeswimmers.

    Fishman if i remove the angels they stop spawning alltogether and start fighting each other
     
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    i dont know wat to say, thats wat i would do.
     
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  17. noshow discus

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    well ya have to know the whole story i got em from a guy who had noclue what discus need they were stunted..he had 5 of em in a tank with no clue i got em they were only 3inches <not counting fins>
    he was going to cull them because they were not the big 7+ inch fish he wanted and after the fact that it was his fault.
    i kept them in a 45 gal tall for about 3 months before they paired up.
    i them moved them to a 30 gal grow out for my angel fry where they meet the 3 angels.
    now the angels dont bother the discus and the discus dont bother the angels
    and they all live in a 35 gal tall with no ill effects i have sold 3 spawns off this pair and all have grown out perfectly.
    One of the fry the guy at the LFS keep in his show tank and is 6+ inches and a perfect blue with the stripes like his mom just alot bigger.
     
    noshow discus, Jul 20, 2008
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    WOW! those look awesome!
     
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  19. Anonymous

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    do you change your water temps? i know when we had discus breeding Larry( our aquarium guy) would LOWER the temp after she laid...don't know id this helps or not..maybe you could put in a partition and seperate the mom and the eggs from the angels, cause the angels WILL eat the eggs give her some security?
     
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  20. noshow discus

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    you drop the temp of the tank to make the produce more slime which the freeswimmers need to eat for the first week or two.....i have found out the problem i think, the beefheart i was feeding was a bad batch cause my friends discus started doing the same and he got his batch same place and time i got mine.
     
    noshow discus, Aug 6, 2008
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