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Wed Aug 03, 2005, 02:06 PM
#1
spawns in community tanks
just wonderng if anyone has had any luck with spawns in a community tank or even a discus only tank (more than just the pair in there)
Brenton
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Wed Aug 03, 2005, 02:54 PM
#2
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Thu Aug 04, 2005, 09:56 AM
#3
cheers yeah, i thought i've seen them cleaning and so on etc etc twice now and i think i have missed the first spawn because there were egg like remnants on a log in the tank
out of six in the tank i'm pretty sure only one is female which makes it a bid hard on her atm
thanks
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Thu Aug 04, 2005, 12:47 PM
#4
my discus spawned in my tank a few times and the female kept guard for a couple of days but she would always end up eating them because of the other fish moving in on them
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Thu Aug 04, 2005, 02:01 PM
#5
Eternal Moderator
Well, I must say I've had discus spawn in community tanks, dozens, of times, and I've never actually successfully raised a spawn in the tank.
They always seem to get eaten at some stage, so the only safe way is to breed them in a separate tank on their own.
Remember in the wild, a pair only has to raise a very small number of young to be considered successful parents. The rest of the spawn are expendable, so long as a few survive.
We, on the other hand would like to raise as many of the spawn as possible, so we provide them with optimum conditions.
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Fri Aug 05, 2005, 08:39 AM
#6
Hi Brenton
I have got babies to 3 weeks old twice in my community tank,but i was lucky it happened up the ends of the tank and put a piece perspex to divide the pair from the others which i drill holes in.When wriggler hatch I had to also put a netting around the perspex to stop them getting out. as well I suck up all the gravel and put a box filter with them to keep the surface water moving a little.
Brad
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Tue Aug 09, 2005, 02:44 PM
#7
is there a chance of moving the parents and the free swimming spawn before it all gets eaten?
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Wed Aug 10, 2005, 12:26 AM
#8
skoom,
thought of that myself, by trying to siphon off the little-uns and then have them reattach to the parents once moved seems too tall an ask, also the parents after a move like that i think would be too shocked to bother about the fry.
Their happy for the moment in the community and as i am rebuilding fish-house they can stay there, i'll just have to suffer manually trying to raise fry or let them have a go for survival.
Brenton
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Thu Aug 11, 2005, 11:15 PM
#9
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I have at this moment a pair who have spawned and I have a divider to separate the fish, even the female to the eggs wants to eat the eggs. Well will wait an see what happens, the eggs were laid yesterday for the first time in the community tank....
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