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Discus fish breeding

• Artificially Rearing Discus Fry (19 steps)
Many people react "snobbishly" to breeders when someone raises them artificially stating that eventually they (the fish) will raise their own (and they will), but I look at it this way: Only a fool allows $1000.00 dollars worth of eggs to get eaten by the parents! We can, and do, just as good a job killing the babies ourselves!
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• Simple method of raising discus fry artificially
I personally have never tried this, but the man who explained it to me raised most of his fry this way, and he had about 35 pairs of discus and a great deal of success. He starts by removing the eggs from the parents (his pairs laid on a variety of surfaces including slate, pvc, and strips of stainless steel) and placing the eggs in a one gallon jar containing straight R.O. water at the same temperature as his tanks.
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• Discus Foster Parenting And Behavior
This article was written to give some thought on the behavior of breeding discus fish and their fry. Not much detail has been documented on this aspect of discus keeping which almost seems over looked. Discus fish are remarkable creatures (such as other cichlids) and we owe them the time to try to understand why they do what they do.
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• Discus breeding activities in Hong Kong
Hongkong is located between the tropical and sub-tropical climate zones. Temperature can cool down to 10 deg. Celsius in Winter. In Hongkong 20% of the families have fish tanks (mostly gold fish and koies).
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