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sideshow
Mon Oct 12, 2009, 10:17 AM
hey all

got a scar ethe other night
was 3am and had to feed our 3 year old son
so i also decided to check on the discus see if they laid eggs again
one got so scared swum so fast into glass and knocke dhimself out for afew seconds
i got so worried check hiim abit later and he was on an angle
next day he seemed much better and 3 days later he is ok i think
i was sooo upset and worried this is my first pair

anyway main thing im asking is
they have laid eggs nearly every saturday for past 4 weeks

the eggs turn yellow slowly some within a day some within 3 days
so i guess they are still young

what should i do leave them for a week
or clean them up after 4 days

the parents dont eat them
they just fan them waiting for them to hatch
but they wont hatch due to male not fertilising them

Snookgum123
Mon Oct 12, 2009, 06:38 PM
I have the same problem I guess. This is the 5weeks now and this is the 6x it fail

mcloughlin2
Mon Oct 12, 2009, 09:50 PM
Yellow eggs are fertile, white eggs are infertile. So I don't understand exactly whats going on. Eggs that havn't been fertilised will growth fungus within a few days. Have you had any sign of this?

sideshow
Mon Oct 12, 2009, 11:20 PM
white or yellow eggs its hard to tell
i guess they are closer to white than anything

i might le tthem go till 4 days see if they hatch

if all eggs are unfertilised is it ok to suck them up with gravel cleaner

my discus lay eggs just about every saturday
so i try to remove old eggs before the coming saturday

sideshow
Tue Oct 13, 2009, 05:32 AM
had a closer look today
they are more white than yellow
does it matter that they are on the tank glass
should i invest in a breeding cone

or just let nature take its course and leave them alone

Snookgum123
Thu Oct 15, 2009, 02:29 AM
My eggs turn white. I just mean that the male is not doing his job fertilizing the eggs. I notice that my male is in a learning stage.... Maybe your male is too? My female looks like she is teaching him after she lays her eggs she kinda nudge him. He doesn't fertilize the eggs right way and it takes him a bite. So maybe your male is just new to fertilizing the eggs. Since female mature much faster than male.

Snookgum123
Mon Oct 26, 2009, 10:46 PM
My friend told me to raise the vase higher to middle of the tank. He said maybe the pressure is too much... So I am tring that right now.