Posted by Sarah on August 13, 2008
Discus Eggs
We noticed discus eggs yesterday morning.
This is the first time the discus have laid eggs since we removed the extra male discus (The Lone Wolf) a few weeks ago, so we are pretty excited.
The eggs are on a sponge filter intake tube, and they are facing the tank, so that we can actually see them pretty well this time.
Since we removed The Lone Wolf the two remaining Discus have been exploring the tank a lot more – but they haven’t always been side by side like they were before, so I wasn’t sure what would happen.
German Blue Ram Eggs
We noticed German Blue Ram eggs this morning, that must have been laid last night.
Oddly enough – the light that we left on for the discus can be seen in the Ram tank too.
The pair has been increasingly interested in the slate where they normally lay their eggs, so I’m surprised that it took them so long to actually lay the eggs.
When I got up this morning I saw one of the male rams circling around the slate – and a clown pleco peeking out of the cave beside it.
After I turned on the aquarium lights I realized that there were eggs.
We are out of extra tank space right now, so the rams willl get a chance to try to raise their own eggs again. That’s probably good for them, because they do get a little stressed out when we pull the slate.
The ram pair are pretty good at chasing the other rams away from the slate, but it’s the clown plecos I’m worried about.
One was about an inch away from the eggs when I turned on the lights this morning.
There’s still no sign of Apisto Agassizi eggs or Celestial Pearl Danio eggs – but since we don’t have any more space, that isn’t a big deal either.
What’s going on in your tanks?
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Posted by Sarah on March 24, 2008
We noticed the discus acting funny yesterday – and realized that they were getting ready to lay eggs.
They were chasing the third discus in the tank, and the bushynose plecos in the tank away from their corner of the tank, and pecking at the filter intake tube.
After a while of pecking I noticed the female making passes across the tube, and I saw that her egg tube was out.
Since the discus are so skittish I was trying to sit close enough to see what was going on, without sitting close enough to upset them.
Finally I looked and noticed discus eggs!
I was excited, Jeff was excited.
But unfortunately the excitement didn’t last very long.
The eggs disappeared within an hour.
I’m pretty sure the parents ate their eggs, but it could have been the other discus or one of the four bushynose plecos in the tank.
After we noticed that the eggs were gone the discus were acting like they normally do – hanging out in their corner of the tank, and letting the third male come hang out with them, instead of chasing him and everyone else out of their territory and hanging out near thetube where they laid the eggs.
The discus were laying eggs every 8 days before we got them, so hopefully they will continue with that schedule, and get things right soon.
I think we are going to move the plecos just in case they were eating the eggs, or in case they are stressing the discus out enough that they ate the eggs.
I figured we might as well make things as calm as possible for them.
Posted by Sarah on February 17, 2008
We just noticed that we have German Blue Ram Fry. The eggs were laid on a piece of slate placed along the bottom of the aquarium gravel on February 13.
We pulled the slate out (making sure to keep the eggs fully submersed at all times) after the Rams looked like they were done because our Rams have a history of eating their eggs. From what I understand, most Rams do eat their eggs.
We didn’t have another tank set up, so Jeff mixed some water from the parents tank, and some RO water in a spare 10 gallon we had.
We put in a sponge filter that had been in one of the other tanks for a while, so it should have some good bacteria in it.
We put the slate in a green mesh breeder net on the side of the aquarium, and I’m glad we did – the little Rams are tiny!
Jeff didn’t think that they had hatched when he first went to look, because they are so small.
We have some baby brine shrimp (bbs) and are feeding them that for now.
Some people say that Rams can’t eat bbs at birth, and some people say that that’s all they feed them, so I hope they will do ok.
We’ve also got a pea sized clump of java moss in there since that tends to host some “goodies” for the fish to eat.
I’ll keep you updated, if you’ve ever had German Ram fry I’d love to hear about your experience.
Posted by Sarah on January 21, 2008
German Blue Rams are my husband’s favorite fish.
They’re really fun to watch – they chase each other around, and guard their territories, and they seem to have a lot of fun.
We were very fortunate to get some German Blue Rams from a breeder in Minneapolis, and they are beautiful.
Since they are sensitive to water conditions a lot of people have trouble keeping them, but we haven’t had any trouble at all – ours even spawned within a week of bringing them home.
That was a lot of fun.
Unfortunately, all of the eggs disappeared – or got eaten, before they could hatch, but I’m sure that someday we’ll have German Blue Ram fry.
