BristlenoseGirl Posted December 24, 2011 Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 I never knew that they artifically fed Discus Fry.. And that one of the ingredients in the mixture is a body building formula and egg yolk Found this surfing Youtube... Does anyone do this to there fry, currently in Australia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod_Lewis Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Hi BnG, I have never seen that method before, be interesting to see a time line of the fry as they grow, so we can compare to regular parent raised results. I have used the instar 1 brineshrimp method to raise them artificially and it seems to work as well as parent raised. The critical nature in the timing of everything, does not leave a lot of room for errors with these methods. I'm guessing that would be much the same negative issues for this body builder method too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontothenext1 Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 great food for thought there BNG.quite informative bloke too,this method looks to be the answer to display tank breeding with multiple pairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BristlenoseGirl Posted January 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 I heard from my dad a while ago. That Discus fry that are not left with their parents during the 'milk' process stage. Are horrible parents.. haha there are so many questions! And most of them are hard to answer, without going through batches of discus... which im pretty sure no one would like to do. Its hard enough to keep them alive, with water quality, etc.. and then parents eating fry... Nice to hear Rod, that there is a brine shrimp method I will tell dad.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontothenext1 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 After months of trial and error have method pretty close...bloody hard though..biggest hurdle is getting the egg mixture right so as to not mess the water up,growth rate i can say is not much slower if any,but the mortality rate (as i can attest to today)is huge when a gheko gets into em'"over night...but once again the only reason to do this is for the breeds of albino where eyesite is poor and dont attatch to parents well,in this case butterfly pair..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rex82 Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Discus fry will eat baby brine shrimp As their first food with great results, egg mixture works but growth is poor in comparison to brine shrimp or parent raised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil56 Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Best results are obtained by mixing newly hatched brine shrimp with powder egg yoke and a small amount of Spirulina powder.mix together so the juices are squeezed out of the brine shrimp into the egg yoke,the plastic coloured air stones are best to use as they are easier to clean,normal air stones are porous allowing bacteria to get a foothold and should not be used multiple times.Most Discus struggle with brine shrimp as a first food unless they are grade 0 platinum label.That is less than 450 microns in length.So check the brand as some are to big to use.I have found this mix will grow out the young at the same rate as those fed on parental slime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil56 Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 On the subject of breeding albino discus, I used to breed them in a room where i could control the light, By darkening the room and placing a light under the tank or on the floor I could illuminate the tank so only a small amount of light entered the sides of the tank making the parents appear almost black, young albinos which shun light would be attracted to the dark looking parents and begin feeding, prior to this technique the young would simply scatter and die. There has to be no back covering on the tank and it may take a little bit of mucking around to get the light right. Make sure its not too bright or you'll lose the effect. I used this technique to raise many white and albino discus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
