April 28, 201412 yr comment_549464 Hi, my names Gareth, I am fairly new to fish keeping/breeding (about 3.5 months). I got started in January with a breeding pair of Blue Diamond Discus which had a few free swimming babies with them. These settled in very quickly and started laying eggs within about a week of purchase and laid every 7-10 days for about 4-5 batches. Unfortunately they ate each batch and unfortunately the female died some days later with what I believe was whirling disease if anyone else has ever heard of it. Anyway I still have a beautiful male Blue Diamond and 10 juveniles. About 8 weeks ago I also purchased a breeding pair of longfin Angels who have so far laid 2 batches of eggs of which both batches have hatched and are growing very quickly! So, for someone that is new to fish keeping the hobby has expanded very rapidly with (so far) 11 Blue Diamond Discus, 2 Adult Angels, around 400 baby Angels and 4 Rummynose Tetras. I have 2x 60L, 3x 90L, 2x 200L and 1x 260L tanks at the moment so I suppose you could say I have MTS Anyway, enough waffle. Anyone have a spare female Blue Diamond Discus...? :bggrn: Cheers for now Report
April 28, 201412 yr comment_549466 Hello & welcome to the forum, sounds like you jumped right into the deep end haha. Report
April 28, 201412 yr Author comment_549468 Haha - sure did but if you want to learn to swim.... Report
April 28, 201412 yr comment_549474 Welcome it seems you are going the right direction interns of fish tanks, i.e. lots of them. If you are wanting discus you might want to check out new pupuke aquarium, they have the best range in auckland imo. Report
April 28, 201412 yr comment_549484 You now need one much larger tank to house all the discus together Report
April 29, 201412 yr comment_549508 I have never kept discus but I don't think that is big enough for 11 discus. Report
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