(6) What is your water pH do you use to raise your
Discus fries
My Ph ranges between 6 – 7
(7) What are the things that
you learned through your years of being a Discus breeder
?
Breeding is a never ending process, and you tend
to learn more and more everyday. The thing that
I learned about genetics when it comes to Discus
is that once you reach the F3 generations from then
on everything will be easier for you because that's
when you know that your gene pool is going to be
stronger compared to before and you are going to
get a more stable genes in times to come.
The other thing I came across a lot is with the
current strains available in the market everything
is hybrid of something or the other, you will find
many varieties of strains in your batch of fries,
these shows that the gene pools of the domestics
Discus is really not stable at all.
(8) At the moment besides Discus
what other fish are you breeding ?
(9) What food do you feed your Discus of size 1-2inch
? and how often do you feed them?
I feed my Discus of that size frozen bloodworms.
This really helps in the development of their fin
as it is rich in protein and it's safe compared
to live food. I feed them 6-7 times a day.
(10) What food do you feed your Discus of size 3inch
? and how often do you feed them?
I feed my 3+inch Discus mixture of Beefheart and
bloodworms. I use Beefheart to make them FAT and
THICK
(11) What diseases your encountered most of the time
? and how do you treat it ?
Most of the time white poo is what I came across,
my method is treating them is my using Metrodinazole
(4 x 500g tablets) for 100liters of water and it
goes on for 4-7 days depends how serious it is.
I use heater to make the water warm to 32Celcius.
I change the water 1 times a day and that also only
2/3 of the water I changed.
The other disease I across also before is Velvet.
The way I treat it is by using Formalin (20 drops
for 1 meter aquarium) and add Neomicyin Sulphate
and heater at 32Celcius. The treatment goes on between
4-7 days. You know when the treatment is working
is by looking at the body, if there are whitish
mucus on the body and it looks like peeling off
then you know that the medication is working.
Prevention is better than medication. That is why
I always quarantine all my new discus before putting
them with the old discus. I quarantine them for
1 week and I treat them with Formalin and other
antibiotics to clear them up from external and internal
parasites.
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