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ok cool sounds like concensus from everyone here and abroad is 3 to 5 hours lol cool that means you can put a heap in there and they will feed on it like a buffet for the first5 half of the day!@

ok found cheap sheets expol delivers free too

silicone melts it too?

my walls in the garage are that plastic stuff used for real state signs. i heard duct tape will melt the poly? what tape can i use to put them on? i dont want glue cos its permanent im renting

i want tof ully insulate it. the dividends from insulation far outweighs the power bill. was thinking 20 to 40 mm if i can. also expol squares between the wood and the tin. duct tape, nails to hold them in.

ok my garage is WAYYY to cold, 13 degrees this morning and my tanks fell to 25 this morning, was only 3 degrees it hink outside lol i wanna insulate it with poly, questions what thickness shoudl i use, 10, 20, 40 50 mm thick? some areas i can do 50 but it might be too thick and make the room way too small in some areas any feedback? also where can i get really cheap good bulk poly?

ok im getting a better understanding. why doesnt anyone seem to be able to answer the question below lol How long will live bbs live in freshwater? can i put a bunch in there as a buffet for the fry?

oh ok, so generally when they are feeding on milk from parents, they will not be interested much in non moving food like pellets, hence the live bbs?

ahh i see i see. cool thanks for that. so in theory though - they may eat pellets IF you acn somehow get it as small as the eggs? though i decided to go wtih eggs and decaps eggs, easy enough to get. ill look at hatching systems and see how its done.

ok wait, im confused. you get decap bring shrimp and brine shrimp eggs http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 063458.htm decap brine shrimp eggs http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 269723.htm brine shrimp eggs ok, the decap eggs CANNOT hatch, they are dead. the normal eggs are able to hatch? is this correct? lol will fry eat decap bb eggs? yes my auto feeder can feed pretty much anything, and willd efinatley do the decap eggs. will fry eat the decap egg? isnt that the same as pellets - probably more nutritious but if its not alive, wont you face the same problem of them not eating it? im confused with the eggs and decap eggs lol

ok can someone take me step by step a set up to hatch baby brine shrimp with the capacity to feed fry from o ne batch of discus eggs.? also, how long do brine shirmp live for? if i take it out from the hatchery, and put it into the discus tank - how long will it live for to be freely hunted by the discus baby? just all details would be good! also, where do i get brine shrimp eggs? http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 666349.htm is this it? the coke bottle set up apparently is best. but any better plan would be good

yeah, 75% or 100 is possible through out 24 hours period definately. ok, so i could do that i guess - if the gap between 830 with no food to evening after i get back is ok. i dont get back till 6ish. CAN i supplement pellets while im at work? or might as well not?

3 feeds a day. CAN i supplement some pellets as well as bbs, so say auto feeder feeds 2 to 3 times during the day, i feed once in morning bbs, twice bbs at night before lights out? water change i can do through otu the day with the changer, i can programme the tank to turn over what i want to to maintain little to no nitrate.

water change will be done through out the day with m y auto changer. so no worries there. 3 times enough?

yeah 9 - 5, why?

fair enough bbs sounds like a good choice, i can feed bbs in the evenings when its not my day off, but during the day, can i supplement with pellets OR alternatively, can i put a giant clump of bbs in there in the mornings, and leave it in the tank, how long will bbs survive in the freshwater when placed? if you put a giant clump, its like a buffet for a few hours. ????

yeah, looks like a checkerboard with spots, but looks gold base? or white base? looks unusual. patter towards the tail is not yet full, and its 1 year old, could mean either it has abit of growing to go or colour wont fully develop what do you think?

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anyone used this? there is no way ic an feed discus 6 times a day with brine shrimp. pellets is my main goal, BUT, has anyone used this? http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/P ... 2004&Nty=1

oic, any alternative to live food? there is no way i can feed them 6 times a day lolunless its pellets. i mean, whast the issue with pellets? they wont eat it? pellets has so much nutrients in it.

agreed. i would certainly feed only the best. discus do choose their pairings, but the combinations i have stated have been paired already, twice now. funny though, 2 males fertilised the eggs, then mother ate them soon after like it did previos spawn not sure if thats normal in a comm tank. the males duel and the winner guards eggs, but they both fertilised it.

reason i ask before i actually start is that so i know the answers as much as i can when is start, no awkewardness. im excited, i really wanna see what comes out of the white butterfly x albino or snowwhite x albino. i am told that snow leopards will produce rouglhy 50% snow leopards, and the other 50% will be a mix of snow whites and normal leopards. im going for the really funny strains. snow leopard is already a second gen or third gen crossing. so breeding from them should produce reliable types of strain - not randoms hopefully. but the other, not sure. i mean, white butterfly x albino. Will i get albinos? or is it toooo recessive? will i have to wait for F2 cross?

haha not yet! but, i believe with the right research, i am getting opinions all over, and compiling my own TRIAL so to speak from what i hear. i was going to wait for the black aro to grow up and the tank to free up, but my white butterfly, snow white is laying, and the super checkerboard male and albino male is courting the females and paring up. i figure, i would like to cross the white butterfly with the albino male which i believe is an albino snow white OR, just cross the normal snow white with the albino snow white see what comes out. i will probably have a tank set up and isolated the pair by months end if budget allows. the extra power should only be about 15 dollars max a week. affordable. then when the black aro grows then i will have 2 breeding tanks, thats for my white snow leopard to breed in. my approach is to remove the parents, not the babies, and put the parents back into the community tank after breeding to feed, fatten and re strengthen. i have had people saying that pellets are good, they also have massive nutrients but must be small and YES, pre swelled so they dont swell in the babies stomach. all do-able. i dont wanna hatch shrimps, i will try them in my pellet and mince beef heart mix. 50/50% - a breeder overseas recommended that ratio and said that it works well for him. if im wrong, then will hatch shrimps.

ok when free swimming, they feed off the parents right. how long? i mean, at same time can you supplement with pellets? crushed up? does it have to be brine shrimp? i prefer to use other food. can i use pellets crushed up at this age? what is roughly the time line from hatch to eating off parents slime and how long will they eat off parents slime ? i am told 4 weeks you can remove parents completely? can you remove them earlier? or will they keep eating slime? i guess main question is, if i crush up very finely pellets, can i feed this instead of having to cultivate brine shrimp. if someone could give me a roughl timeline from egg laying to removing parents. also when solids/shrimps are fed to them if pellets are ok that is.

yeah well, i put in some scrapings of the bowl into the tank. they attacked it straight away! they like it. the geo phagus loves it. but the discus like it. the others were full, it was 1 hour after a feeding cycle, but even then they like it.