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Does anyone have any experiance or suggestions on how to get discus fry to start eating baby brine shrimp, or for that matter, anything besides off the parents? Also, how do you get them to wean off the parents if they refuse to eat bbs? I tried putting the last batch in with some ram fry...
Have you added ANY medication or absolutely anything out of the ordinary to the tank during about the 7-10 days prior to when they died? What about your water change schedule?
Any medicine I have ever used to try to treat intestinal parasites has made my neons turn pale in their red color...
I noticed that nothing more has been mentioned about the suggestion to only feed your fish every 2-3 days. I think that is an excellent idea to help in an emergency situation when ammonia or nitrite is at a harmful level. Maybe go to only one feeding per day or every other day. It's not just...
A little Physics...
The mirror image that you see looking from the front of the tank is just an "optical illusion." If you put on some goggles and look into/through the water and down from the fish's perspective, you will barely be able to see yourself, just as you can kind of see your image...
same problem
I have had the exact same problem with my platys, and also with all the livebearers I have kept (except Endlers!). My pleco is aggressive enough about getting food, but the bigger problem was their keeping my small discus from getting hardly anything to eat at all so they were not...
Dear Erik,
Your questions about the breeding tank are all very good ones. I use Seachem Discus Buffer. They say it will only get the pH to 5.8, but they lie. :wink: It is easy to get to 5.0 or 5.5 in a ten gallon, and probably the same in a 20. Peat in a filter media bag tied near...
this worked for me...
Dear Erik,
I have had success waiting for a couple tp pair up, and then putting them in their own 10 gal right before they are ready to spawn. You will know they are going to when you see them pair up, the female's belly is somewhat plump and turning darker, and they...
There has not been any action with the panduros for a while now, and I was kind of brainstorming on what I could do different for them.
Would they be more likely to spawn if I put them in the 50 gal community tank? It's just a really different environment- much more light, lots of live...
The missing eggs...
Following up on that pair that I mentioned...
The male ate the first spawn, and I thought that he had eaten this one too, and was considering pulling him after the next one. But today, they have moved a pile of wigglers back to the piece of slate! I looked all over that...
suggestion
Just a suggestion...
After you figure out for sure who is eating the eggs, and if you decide that you do want to seperate them, I suggest that you remove the egg-eating parent and the other fish in the tank instead of moving the "good parent" and fry. This way, the babies are not...
Well, most of the rams eggs were gone yesterday morning with the exception of about five that looked white and fungused, which disappeared later that day. However, the male spends nearly ALL his time sitting low next to the gravel in a corner of the tank where I can't see, and they both stay...