29 Discus tank

[silver]

OMG.....

Is that why they kept failing!!??

Holy Moly, that is amazing Elgecko



Still too busy for beebee Discus eh?

 

[elgecko]

So does this mean that all pigeon bloods are artifically raised? They seem to be a fairly popular strain

Pigeon Blood discus are not naturally occuring in the wild. They were created in 1991 by Kitti Panaitti from Thailand.
Some Pigeon Blood discus are able to raise their fry. Some breeders will either use a Pigeon Blood and another strain of discus to breed them, or I have read of people using foster parents to raise the fry.

I found the following off the net:
"Since then I've talked to other breeders about this problem and they've all seen it with their own fish. I was told in Asia that many professional hatcheries use surrogate parents to rear the fry from different pigeon strains or artificially raise them. Well, I haven't had any luck with the artificial method so I guess what I need now is a surrogate mother. Anybody know where I can put this want ad? Next time the opportunity presents itself that I have two pairs, the pigeons and a turquoise pair, with 3 to 5 day old fry at the same time I think I might try this idea."


Silver,
I guess so.
Busy with all my other hobbies, plus no room to try to raise them and no foster discus to try.



Would you like to try to follow this for several weeks?
http/www.netpets.org/fish/reference/fres.../discusfry.html

 

[Sorrell]

Thanks for clearing that up, that is really interesting I can't imagine anyone having time to do what was layed out in that article unless that's what you actually did for a living

This part was my favorite

We can, and do, just as good a job killing the babies ourselves!

 

[silver]

Man,
I can't believe what some people do for fish!! Even though I love them sooo

Who knows, maybe you'll get babies someday without having to become "obsessive" about it No offense to any avid discus baby breeders!!