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.
June 28th, 2008 - 8:45 am
You have your ratio of males to females backwards, for every 1 male you should have 2 females. When I was breeding Angels and Discus and I wanted a new pairs but didn’t want to buy a proven pair I would get 6 to 8 medium sized and throw in a nice comminity tank and let pair off then seperate to a different tank. You need to get breeding slate or cones.
July 1st, 2008 - 8:22 am
We actually got our discus from someone who was growing out 7 young discus and ended up with three pairs that were all spawning in a 55 gallon.
The former owner said the extra male discus would help strengthen the pair bond between our pair, and even if it doesn’t he wouldn’t have sold us just the pair, because he needed to get rid of the extra male so he’d have enough room to raise his fry.
So we ended up with three discus.
I have heard of reverse trios of discus where both males help raise the eggs, but I doubt that that will happen in our case :-).
We have a upside down flowerpot in the aquarium, which is what the discus are spawning on now.
All of the spawning cones have been out of stock when we were at the local fish stores for the past several months, and some other people said they were having luck with the flowerpots so we tried that.
Do you think that breeding slate or cones are better than a flowerpot?