I also have egg eating Discus. When this pair were in a community tank they protected their eggs to the extreme. Once the eggs hatched & the wrigglers started to swim free, the other community fish would eat them. So I put this pair in a tank by themselves. They have spawned three times and eaten their eggs on all occassions. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and betting on "protective parental potential probability"!
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Thread: They ate eggs again!
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Mon Nov 21, 2005, 10:49 PM #21Wrigglers
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Tue Nov 22, 2005, 08:46 AM #22Wrigglers
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they are back in the community tank they are natural born killers
to much slaughter for meVince
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Tue Dec 13, 2005, 11:26 AM #23Wrigglers
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placed the monsters (egg eaters from the deep)back into the cube tank
for another round spawned eggs soon after and guess what happened next?????Vince
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Tue Dec 13, 2005, 11:37 AM #24Moderator
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well they either ate them or the got them to wriggler stage.... am i right?
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Tue Dec 13, 2005, 11:01 PM #25Wrigglers
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GONE!!!!!!!!!!!
gp right as alwaysVince
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Wed Dec 14, 2005, 01:36 AM #26Eternal Moderator
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Time to break that pair up Vince. Have you got another female you can use. It's usually the female who is the persistant egg eater. BTW did you every try to cage the eggs, and did that prove successful.
Thirty-five years keeping and breeding discus, and I'm still learning :P
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Wed Dec 14, 2005, 07:17 AM #27Wrigglers
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i have got a another female but she is pairing up with another
No i did not cage as she spawns on the back wll of tank i have got mesh ready made of wire but i am hesitant to use it .
This is about to change tust me on this oneVince
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Wed Dec 14, 2005, 08:07 AM #28Moderator
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thanx govgp right as always
sorry to hear about them eating them again
hope they do better with different partners
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Sun Jan 08, 2006, 11:23 AM #29Just an Egg
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i have egg eaters too. it is the female she has eaten 150 of my 300ish eggs so ive caged and if i see her eat free swimm she is goin to my comm tank which i will get some more large discus to see if i can get a winning breeding pair..
just my 2c worth
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