Anyone else bred discus in a tank with peebles and sand

[car67]

If so was it sucsessful and any tips or tricks to make it so.

[ryanjury]

Guess it also depends on the size of your tank and water change schedule..

Discus will do well with gravel and stuff but it is alot harder to remove all the waste, they also tend to go around picking up food off the bottom after being fed which they won't see if it is hidden in gravel..

[Flosty]

What I have found is once the eggs hatch to wrigglers, alot of the time they fall to the tank floor,

in a bare bottom tank the parents pick them up and spit them back on the spawning site.

In a gravel tank they tend to get lost in the gravel and the parents can't retrieve them.

Never tried with sand but maybe that would be different.

I am sure though it has been done lots of times before.

[Bilbo]

My first spawning of Blue Turqs was in a gravel filled tank. I did hardly any water changes and none at all after the eggs were laid until the fry were swimming.

Officially it was a disaster of a tank because it was filthy and we used just plain tap water and flake food but I got at least 15 grow to aduldhood.

I dont recomend this method but it worked at the time. I guess we were just very lucky.