Discus eggs

[BK]

Just a quick question. My Discus laid eggs on Monday. After about an hour some turned a ligth brown colour where as the rest stay kinda white. They are on the uplift for my filter and I think that male hasn't got the hole lot fretilized. Tuesday morning all but 3 eggs left these were eaten in front of me. I think the dog got up when my alarm went off and came to see me in my room and give the Discus a fright. This is there second time so the eggs lasted a little longer. Should I leave a night light on? My other pair did there thing as well but as b4 the male eat them as soon as they were laid. I've been given a ugly Discus (pigeon blood-golden & heavy spotted, more black than golden) is it worth while to see what kind of offspring he'll have or would it better to find someone to take him as I have 9 coming in to breeding and another 8 about 3-4 months old. The older ones are all ture strains and the younger ones are mixxed. Through that if I had one of the younger ones come out in a light colour I could see what they would produce together. Don't need the tank space so well keep him for now. That was a quick ?

[Luke*]

I wouldn't let him breed, or at least the fry survive. The aim should be healthy good looking discus. Some fry might come out ok but then if they spawn their fry can have those bad genetics from the original.

Where did you get all your discus from?

[robert]

As long as you discus has a good shape you can breed him the peeppering may just be from being keept in a dark tank,i have one with a lot of black spots on her and the off spring have very little, the discus you have should be to young to breed or they are runts that have been pasted off on you, i would ring and find out just what age the importer says they are.