If the eggs were fertilized they will be a goldish color. If the eggs were not fertilized they will be a white cotton like color. The white eggs will not hatch and usually the discus pair will eat the white eggs. The best first food to feed them on is newly hatched brine shrimp.
They love it and they will grow very quickly on this. The best way to start it is to wait until the fry are five days old. Then start off the first brine shrimp hatchery. What are the different types of discus and how do we tell them apart? All colors and types of discus will interbreed and produce fertile fry. Some types like Pigeon Blood and Blue Diamonds are easily recognized.
Larger females will lay more eggs, and smaller females will lay less. Once the eggs are securely fastened to the substrate surface, her male counterpart will immediately come in from behind her and fertilize the batch of eggs. To breed clownfish, purchase a mated pair of fish, or 2 fish that are already bonded, from an aquarium store. Place plants, anemone, and rocks in the tank, and keep the water in the tank clean, which can help make the fish more likely to breed.
To artificially raise the fry, first remove the fry as eggs from their parents and place them in a shallow pan. Some people prefer using small white bowls, since they make it easier for you to see the eggs. After the fry hatch, feed them an egg yolk mixture. This could be caused by either poor water quality, lack of aeration or they weren't fertilised. If the eggs die within 24hrs of being layed then they were not fertilised to begin with.
I can't give you any more reason for this than the ones I have already listed above, I recommend that you watch the fish next time they lay eggs and make sure the male is right behind the female as she lays the eggs. M y A quarium C lub. Your breeding pair is getting sluggish and not fanning the eggs 4. The oxygen levels in your tank are low 5. Too much ammonia, nitrite or nitrate 6. Fungus attack you would probably notice that though 7.
Thanks again Dolphin! Hi Mama Do there seem to be any colour differences in the fry? I tried to take some pics and I got a couple of close-ups using a magnifying glass in front of the lens! Hi Mama Nice Pic's. The fry seem to be eating well. As to the worm problem, I have never had major casualties due to them. If you have a dwarf gouramie add it to the tank when the fry are too big for it to eat them. It should eat them, the planaria that is. I noticed some have a bit of a black like on their tails I went to bed early and got up about 3am CST and all my eggs had been eaten by the parents Hi Mama Sorry to hear about the eggs.
Is there any thing else in the tank with them? I have had two pairs that used to be in a 88 gal tank. Each pair had their territories at either end of the tank. At lights out the pairs would swap ends. Both pairs started to lay eggs at about the same time.
As they never laid on the same day they kept swapping ends and eating each others eggs. After 4 spawns they both laid eggs on the same day.
This was the first day that they never swapped ends, and after two days both pairs were looking after their newly hatched fry. From this point forward they kept to their own ends of the tank, with the middle of the tank been their battle ground. The pairs were then moved to my new fish house to cycle the filter, both pairs were moved with wrigglers and put into individual tanks. And both pairs have been raising fry ever since. Occasionally one of the males will not fertilize the eggs, but they never eat the eggs, they just allow them all to go white and then clean them off the spawning cone, tall plant pot after about 4 days.
I would add another pair to the tank if they are by themselves, to give them the defensive instinct. But you must keep an eye on the introduced fish to make sure that they do not get too beaten up, the original pair my kill them if the tank is too small.
In my fish house all the breeding tanks are separated from each other by lining paper between the tanks. If I think that the pair are not showing to much interest in their eggs I just pull the sheet of paper out, and let them see the pair in the next tank. This then starts the defensive instinct, and they then start fanning the eggs again. Hope this helps Dolphin. You must log in or register to reply here.
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