Discus

Red Snakeskin male pumped up for action

 

Wow I love the markings on his face and his shape is exceptional.

 

Yeah, and he is a big boytjie. About 16cm length without tail.

Interesting development going on here. He and a female RSS spawned Sun afternoon and they going to spawn again this afternoon. But there is a female Leopard that is trying to get in on the action and is doing her thing on the same cone.

 

The female Leopard trying to get in on the action

 

Now that is how Discus must look like!!!

 

Just love the way Dirk's Alencers have integrated so well into this group. There are 4 different age groups in this tank.

 

Wow Andrew they look awesome ,I MUST COMMEND YOU ON YOUR FISH great work mate

 

Wow you must enter fish of the month. You got my vote

 

As predicted, the snakeskin pair are spawning right now.

 

Nice!!! Is this there second spawn? Maybe its time you put them in there own love nest. If they don't eat there eggs out of nervousness from being in such a big community tank then the other will probably do so. They will probably spawn again in 10 days time so that should give them time to settle in there new tank. Have you got one ready for them or do you still need to set one up?

 

Female depositing eggs on the cone. Amazing to actually see the eggs been deposited. Flash off so poor quality pic.

 

Yip, their second spawn. Last one was past sunday night, 5 days ago. Dirk is coaching me through the process so all so new to me. But this pair has created a super bond so we will see what happens. The last batch of eggs were not well laid ( all over the show - young fish ) but at least the male is fertile as by Monday afternoon there were quite a few that had gone black. They defended their eggs fiercely but unfortunately by Tues everything was gone.

Yip, have one of my large cubes all ready for the next round.

 

Male doing his thing

 

All finished and now the parents are taking turns fanning and guarding their eggs.

Lets see what happens

 

Congrats again!!

 

Thank you

 

Nice going There I have a pair that always spanws in a community tank when the eggs for black and get to wriggler stage I remove the rest of the fish ,I've sucessfully raised 2 battches of babies like that so I'm sure if the eggs gets to that stage it can work.

All of the best they looking awesome

 

Thanks for the advice, could be a mission trying to move the other 26 out though.

Pop by over the weekend if you have some spare time, will be good to catch up again.

 

Sorry chatting from my phone I see loads of spelling errors lol I'm working this weekend will see what I can doYou gone enjoy having fry around ,its hands on .