Northern Lights Aquatics Fish Blog

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.

Please.

Pretty please .