Discus Breeding for Beginners

The achievement of getting the exotic, expensive, and much-in-demand Symphysodon species, the discusfishes, to reproduce successfully in the home aquarium has long been considered the pinnacle of success in breeding fresh water aquarium fishes. Reproducing successfully of course involves a lot more than just getting the parent discus to spawn; that is indeed an accomplishment in itself, but it falls far short of the ultimate goal of converting discus eggs into a new generation of beautiful adult discus.In this book world-renowned discus breeder Jack Wattley provides a blueprint for success that can be followed even by people who have had no experience in keeping these magnificent fishes. In addition to his thoughtful coverage of such important topics as feeding and water quality, he provides a thorough discussion of breeding strategies and raising the babies by both the natural method (whereby the parents care for the fry and let them eat off their own bodies) and the artificial method (whereby the eggs are hatched away from the parents and the fry fed a substitute for the parents' nutritive skin slime).

Author: Jack Wattley
Publisher: TFH
Extra Details: Hardback 6 x 9 inches tall. 64 Pages.Lavishly illustrated with colour photos throughout.