Posted by Sarah on June 27, 2008
The discus spawned on Wednesday - I was surprised at how long the spawning lasted. I watched them for at least three hours.
They spawn a little differently from the German Blue Rams though.
When the rams are spawning the female lays the eggs, then the male goes over the eggs right on top of them and fertilizes them.
I didn’t see the male discus get anywhere near as close to the eggs as the male rams do, and that may be part of the problem.
The female was guarding the eggs, which were laid on an overturned flower pot that we put in the tank a couple of months ago after being unable to find a spawning cone, until this morning.
The last time the discuss spawned we left a light in the room on all night, but this time we didn’t - the eggs were fine the first night, but gone the second, so we’ll have to remember to keep the light on the next time.
There were also thunderstorms with really heavy rain overnight, but I’m not sure if that would have scared the discus at all, let alone enough to eat their eggs.
Do you have experience spawning discus?
If so I’d love to hear about it so leave a comment.
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Posted by Sarah on June 24, 2008
Our bumblebee gobies are so cute, that I decided we needed more.
I ordered three bumblebee gobies from The Tropical Fish Shoppe, but the supplier sent 4, so I ended up with 4, which is fine, because I couldn’t decide if I wanted 3 or 4 to begin with, so it’s nice that the decision for more was made for me .
There was a little bit of chasing when we added the new bumblebee gobies to the tank, but now everyone seems to be getting along fine.
We did rearrange the tank so the gobies would have to work out new territories for themselves -we wanted to make sure that the new gobies would have some space they could live it.
The picture shows two of them that look like they are about to both dive into a shell.
We have seen a couple of the gobies in the shells, but they don’t seem to stay in there.
One of the bumblebee gobies prefers the much larger taco that we got for our plecos, and then moved into that tank when the plecos didn’t use them.
Have you gotten any new fish lately?
Click on leave a comment and tell me about them.
Posted by Sarah on June 20, 2008
We noticed that the discus were spawning on an overturned flower pot on Thursday night.
I’d almost given up hope since the pair of discus stopped acting like a pair in the last couple of tanks.
There are three discus in the tank - two males and one female, and all of them have been swimming around together lately.
Before that we could tell which two were a pair because they were always together, and they tried to keep the other one away from them.
So I was really surprised that we had eggs.
The discus were more skittish than ususal, so we tried to avoid going near the tank unless we had to feed them, or turn the lights on or off. We did sneak a peek at the eggs when we were near the tank though.
Things were going well last night, and then we woke up this morning - no eggs, and no fry.
Maybe we’ll have better luck next time.
Posted by Sarah on June 13, 2008
Do you have a favorite fish, or a favorite tank?
I do.
When I think about favorites I immediately think about my bumblebee gobies, and my Figure 8 puffer, but they aren’t really my favorites.
My real favorites are my Australian Desert Gobies.
Although the parents are gone I still have 8 fry, which are about an inch and a half now.
They are so cute, and it’s fun to watch them hop around, or sit on the filter.
If you have favorites I’d love to hear about them, so leave me a comment and tell me about them.
