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Most Books About Discus Fish,
if they cover breeding, only describe how discus fish breed in nature.
Most of these other books describe the breeding process of spawning,
hatching, and raising of the babies BY THE PARENTS. And that's very
nice when it happens in an aquarium and it should be encouraged. However,
as anyone that has seriously tried to breed discus fish knows, it doesn't
always happen that way in captivity. If fact, it usually doesn't happen
that way. Many times the parents eat the spawn, or they don't attend
to the babies enough, or the tank conditions are not good enough and
the brood is lost.
The Discus
Nursery, which I use, takes care of the needs of discus eggs and
newly hatched discus fry away from their parents. This includes their
nutritional needs and their water condition needs. Also, the nursery
operates the feeding and water conditioning functions automatically
without constant attention from the breeder! The nursery only requires
about 10 minutes of the breeder's attention a minimum of once every
8 hours rather than the almost constant attention required by other
methods of artificially raising discus fry. ---- The
critical feeding stage beginning immediately after the discus babies
have consumed their yolk sacks (the period when the fry would normally/naturally
begin feeding off the parents sides) is quite effectively substituted
constantly by the nursery. The discus babies have something fresh to
pick on (just as they would have had from their parents) presented to
them constantly. Also the nursery provides a constantly refreshed (changed)
and filtered tank of water for the discus fry with all of the same parameters
(pH, temperature, hardness, nitrification, etc) of the parents tank.
You can purchase a Discus Nursery or instruction on how
to build and use my Discus Nursery at DiscusNursery.com
Also, I am writing a book titled "How To Breed Discus
Fish"
My book, and my training course, both emphasize the
significance of a pair of discus fish that will raise their young. But
my book, and my training course, also describes, step by step, in great
detail and over many pages/hours, SEVERAL methods that result in discus
fish eggs being raised to healthy, salable sized discus fish
WITHOUT THE PARENTS (or, as it is called, artificially).
Having these alternative methods working in addition to Mother Nature's
way results in a lot more dollars.
My book or my training course
will teach you how to successfully breed discus fish. The book is over
252 pages of in depth information on all aspects of discus care and
breeding. It will include instruction on how to build a discus
nursery that significantly reduces the amount of time and labor
that would otherwise be needed to attend to the fragile newborns.
My
book is not completely finished.
There are 3 ways to proceed
if you want my help to become a discus fish breeder.
2. Visit DiscusNursery.com
and buy one and try it out.
3. Pay me to come to your location
and train you. --- $8000 plus Stock and Equipment. Stock and Equipment
investment is at least $7000. Totaling over $15000
In any event you will need the
equipment (aquariums. filters, etc), the breeding stock, and a lot of
patience.
The goal is to set you up in
the business of breeding discus so that, if you want, you can live off
the proceeds derived from it. If you only want to be a hobbyist then
the book is good material for you to study but it is rather hard to
produce enough babies to pay all the costs and a profit without making
a serious investment of time and money.
I have been keeping aquariums
all of my life and my dad loved them too. I have been breeding discus
fish in captivity for over 25 years. I had baby discus fish in my tanks
at a time when breeding discus in captivity was very rare.
There are plenty of good books
on discus fish. Jack Wattley, one of the most well known American discus
breeders, has written "Discus Breeding for Beginners", "Handbook
of Discus", and "Discus for the Perfectionist" which
I consider required reading for anyone that wants to make a living or
a hobby breeding discus.
Thanks for your interest
Peter Powell
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