Blue Diamond Discus Fry

[MELLO]

Breeding and raising discus is a challenge for me and now finally I got a pair that I could work on. Both are Blue diamond discus. Male close to 7" and female is a little smaller 6.5". Hope I could grow these fry out like their parents.
Here's the play by play enjoy!
Courtmanship starts

Male showing off

Female finally laid eggs

Male time to fertilize

Done! Time to clean up and guard the eggs

48 hours later eggs are good

Wrigglers

Wrigglers moving around the cone while Mom puts them back to place

Wrigglers first time free swimming(trying to escape away from the cone while Mom and Dad puts them back)

Mom and Dad can't do anything to many of them now its time to do the piggy back ride

3 day old fry

[MELLO]

Video first time free swimming. Click on the pictures to watch videos


Finally the whole family gets along

[Chappy]

That is CRAZY!!!! Okay - lots to say, let me get my thoughts organized....

1st - CONGRATS! The parents are beautiful fish.
2nd - WOW! I can't get over how many eggs made it to free swimmers.
3rd - it is SOOOO cool to see the change in color of both parents as the eggs hatch and the wigglers get bigger to make it easier for them to see the parents. That is just so amazing. My cuips do the same thing - they turn deep dark burgundy red as soon as the fry are free swimmers.
4th - in the first video, all I can think of is being pestered by black flies at a picnic The little guys are buzzing all over the place.
5th - when I die, I want to come back to life as one of your fish I am certainly not the only one who feels this way - you set the standard for discus keeping. Not only in how meticulously you keep your fish, but also in the care you put into feeding them the highest quality and best foods possible and all that hard work is paying off BIG time.

Awesome, awesome job, my friend. 200 fish at $100 or so a pop.....

[Chappy]

Forgot to ask if you're going to be handing out cigars

[MELLO]

That is CRAZY!!!! Okay - lots to say, let me get my thoughts organized....

1st - CONGRATS! The parents are beautiful fish.
2nd - WOW! I can't get over how many eggs made it to free swimmers.
3rd - it is SOOOO cool to see the change in color of both parents as the eggs hatch and the wigglers get bigger to make it easier for them to see the parents. That is just so amazing. My cuips do the same thing - they turn deep dark burgundy red as soon as the fry are free swimmers.
4th - in the first video, all I can think of is being pestered by black flies at a picnic The little guys are buzzing all over the place.
5th - when I die, I want to come back to life as one of your fish I am certainly not the only one who feels this way - you set the standard for discus keeping. Not only in how meticulously you keep your fish, but also in the care you put into feeding them the highest quality and best foods possible and all that hard work is paying off BIG time.

Awesome, awesome job, my friend. 200 fish at $100 or so a pop.....

Shelley,
Thanks! More challenge to come now. Raising discus fry is hard. The parents are good they take care of the babies very well. They take turns with the fry. Haven't had a big clutch like these before. Hopefully most of them make it. They are in the 40g breeder you gave me maybe your cuips magic rubbed into them

[Chappy]

They are in the 40g breeder you gave me maybe your cuips magic rubbed into them

You mean the 50 gallon breeder tank, right???
What was it again - 45.875490234291932435 gallons????

[MELLO]

You mean the 50 gallon breeder tank, right???
What was it again - 45.875490234291932435 gallons????

Whatever gallons! But its not a 50g

[April]

Cool..they aren't on top of the water now though are they?
Don't count your chickens before they hatch! Ok hatched..but out of 100 I'd count on 30 being sellable. If you get 60 to 100 quality fry you will be happy!
Keep us updated


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[josephl]

Looks awesome Mello, thanks for sharing. Those are quality blue diamond parents, I think most parent discus darken up when babies are grazing off them but yours are still staying blue, which is awesome

I can lend you my turtle if you need something to do with the culls

[MELLO]

Cool..they aren't on top of the water now though are they?
Don't count your chickens before they hatch! Ok hatched..but out of 100 I'd count on 30 being sellable. If you get 60 to 100 quality fry you will be happy!
Keep us updated


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I am here: Google Maps

April,
Thanks for the advice. I know what your saying not all of them can turn out to be quality discus. I'm only going to raise the good ones. I'll see what I can do its to early to say what could happen with them. So I'm not even going to touch the selling part. If I do sell you know I'm only gonna sell the good ones or sell the lower grade ones for cheap and donate some of the money to BCA.