Hi all i'm new here

[freerangedfish]

hello to all
i'm new to this site but i currently have 36 tanks. currently i'm breeding blue acaras, discus, forest jewels, convicts, white convicts, Flavus, cubans, bronze corydoras, albino bristlenose and red cherry shrimps.

[wombat1100]

G'day and welcome to TFT , sounds like you are fairly busy with the amount of tanks you have.
I look forward to your input in the forum, I'm sure you have lots of tips to share with the other members

[yarra2]

Welcome! It's a great forum and with your experience you will be a great asset.

Cheers,

Mike

[freerangedfish]

Hi all and thank you for the warm welcome. I am only to happy to share my infomation and any spare fish/inverts/plants that i may have.
My current little expirement is with discus (i've never had them before). I had a mate drop 8 of his around stating that he couldn't get them to breed after having them for 5 years.... 6 weeks later there is 3 pairs, one of which has 20 - 30 fry swimming around them ATM. this would be their 15th odd attempt since i've had them here but they are going strong.

[joz]

Hi and welcome.
Excellent news regarding the discus,once they start its harder to stop them.
I also used to have a fish house full of discus and know how much work it was to maintain all the tanks.
Now I've settled back into just one display tank since we moved house, so much easier now.But I still get the odd niggle that makes me want to do it again.

[freerangedfish]

Hi and thank you for the welcome Joz...
Your not kidding about getting them to stop the fry are now 12 days old and the parents had another drop. By the time i saw the eggs there was only 6 fry left I'm trying to seperate them but i think they are a bit young. The new batch should be hatching today and so far there is at least 150 viable eggs....


Discus are VERY addictive... :D

[joz]

By 12 days old you should be able to sepatrate them from the parents.Then rear them on baby brine shrimp then onto finely groung Tetra color bits.
Unfortunately the parents will see the older young as a threat to the new born when they hatch.So get them out or let them die.

Or...remove and get rid off the newest eggs after laying so that the parents can concentrate on their older batch..

Or...if you have mulitiple pairs laying within a few days of each other remove the eggs hatch them artificially.Then slowly (once acclimatised) add the new young to others about the same age (with 3-4 days old of each other).Luckily discus can't count.