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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:10 am Post subject: Re: discus behaviour
Hi, its 8th day from the previous spawn. Today the female has spawned. But the problem is that, I observed the suspected male roaming aroung the female while laying and trying to imitate her in the act though he was not been able to do it properly. He was trying to go vertically through the PVC pipe upon the eggs but was not able to do it properly. Now the time is 2 am, I have kept the light on and tomorrow I will put a net cover around the pipe. My question is, Is it possible for a male to fail and try to do somehow? Can it be due to its immaturity? If this is the case, then what else can be done?And if the suspected male is a female, is it possible that the female will also act like this? Confusing. Now they are guarding the eggs. And the male is trying to do the act vigorously and eating some of the eggs which are a bit small and different in colour. and it also seems that the female is trying to make him learn the act by repeating the action again and again. Really what a spectacular thing to watch Hope for the best and waiting for the experts comment.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:02 am Post subject: Re: discus behaviour
Now I have put a wire mess in the tank, dont know whether the male has hatched or not. Bt it was seems that they were started eating, so I put the guard. Hopw for the best. I have put meth blue too. Here is a picture, sorry for the bad quality.
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:56 am Post subject: Re: discus behaviour
Prabudha ,
I think the male is not mature enough to do his work. You should give him sufficient time. Covering the eggs immediately means you are preventing the male from fertilizing the eggs. Sometimes male starts fertilizing the eggs after female finish laying her eggs. It may be after 30 minutes also.
You need to have truck load of patience in discus breeding .
I have put the cover after 3 hours of the female finished laying eggs. I have watched them carefully from distance, and lastly they were trying to eat the eggs. (some of them, not all though.).
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 5:09 am Post subject: Re: discus behaviour
Prabuddha, dont be so excited. The fun starts now, unfertilized eggs will start turning white now. You will come to know the results soon about the male.
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:38 am Post subject: Re: discus behaviour
Thanks Adeshda, you know why I am excited. . I really don't know what is going on in there, but I can clearly see that the colour of the eggs are brown till now. It is 32 hours from the time of egg laying. Keeping my fingers crossed. Hope for the best. There may be a major possibility that the male is still immature and couldn't do his work properly, so I will definitely give them more time if this time the eggs are not hatched.
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:54 pm Post subject: Re: discus behaviour
Bad luck guys. Today after 60 hours I removed the cover and saw that there were some dark coloured as well as white coloured eggs which was not seen due to the cover, but unfortunately both of them came and particularly the male eat all of them followed by the female. . All the efforts and patience, time............Really very sad.
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. I really don't know what is going on in there, but I can clearly see that the colour of the eggs are brown till now. It is 32 hours from the time of egg laying. Keeping my fingers crossed. Hope for the best. There may be a major possibility that the male is still immature and couldn't do his work properly, so I will definitely give them more time if this time the eggs are not hatched.
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