Discus Breeding Setup Guide Overview Part- 1

Part - I

My Personal Experience I am going to Share about Discus Breeding

            Hi, everybody Tejesh here the topic we're going to cover is how to breed discus fish successful from my way . 

I am going to share with you my experience with breeding discus it wasn't too long ago where I had a few breeding pairs and established a breeding program that produced about a thousand discus babies  now just to be clear is not going to focus on how to keep discus , this is for the breeding process itself with Discus which is extremely interesting and I suggest you watch that as well finally I have another Blog on selling discus and how i made approximately twenty thousand dollars off of those thousand discus that i told you about a moment ago that is a Blog where I reveal the true details and the Crucial important information about what really goes on when you're selling discus why you want to breed discus doesn't matter to me all 

I'm going to do is share my experience and my advice with what i did and how I did it some of you will agree some of you will do with different none of this is written in stone but I do hope that you find something useful from this Blog at some point when it came to disk is breeding for me there were three main aspects that I focused on and really what I focused on throughout my entire hobby the first is consistency and simplicity that will make more sense in a little while the second is there's a do-it-yourself aspect to almost everything that I do you also need to put in a lot of work and have a lot of patience those are two things that 

Most people don't want to do or don't have ok so one last disclaimer and then we'll get started I swear for this Blog i decided i would basically do this in conversation style basically sharing my accounts off the top of my head however i did take some bullet points of things that i want to talk about and make sure i touch base on with that set if I miss anything I apologize however we can revisit this at a future time for example i do live Blogs on my Facebook fan page now this is a great way to interact and ask me questions directly and potentially have the answer your questions live and direct so do me a favor before you move any further with this Blog pause the Blog and follow me on Facebook so you don't miss any of my live Blogs then come right back here and continue on I'm saying this because chances are I am not going to mention it again and if you're anything like me you're probably going to forget links will be in the description and there should be a pop up somewhere okay we have a lot to talk about so let's get started the number one thing everybody wants to know is how do you get discus pairs how do you sex discus and in my opinion there's three main options that people turn to 

I'll start with the least recommended and then work my way up many people want to sex discus they want to go to a store and see at all discus to say i want that female and I want that mail and I want to take them home and I want them to breed and that's how it's going to be that's not the way it works even if you could sex and adults discus fish is female in a data all discus mail and bring them home there's no saying that they're going to be compatible at all but chances are you're not going to be able to sex them in the first place they're not really a fish that you can tell their sex there will be people out there that will argue that the male has more coloration yet the female will have more variation in its patterns the male will have more pointed dorsal fins the females will be rounded the mail will have thicker lips so it's able to lip lock and fight other males to prove dominance others will say a dominant male will grow with thick forehead yet others will say the anal fin on a female is shorter on the body then on a male I mean the list goes on and on and on and on and the fact of the matter is this there's really no guaranteed way to sex a discus based on appearance alone unless you see their breathing tube swhich only occurs when they're starting to lay eggs know typically speaking your chances are you're not gonna be able to buy a lot of adults discus anyways because I'm typically not that commonly available you'll probably run in to smaller discs that are two and three inches which are absolutely impossible to sex at the end of the day though when it comes to finding out which one's the male and the female the female lays the eggs so if your mind is on going to the store and bought and sexing a couple of disks and bringing the male and a female and creating your own pair that they're going to breathe because you have a male and a female I'm sorry but that's just not going to happen but hey people win the lottery all the time so you never know but that's not the way I would do it the second thing is that you can buy a proven pair from established breeder but even then just because you buy a breeding pair doesn't mean it's going to breed in your tank for example I've done that myself i paid almost six hundred dollars for a breeding pair took it home and it took almost two years for them to start braiding in my tank four to six hundred dollars is an average price for a good  

Breeding pair don't be scared of that price though chances are you'll make your money back on that first batch of fri if you plan to sell any the most successful way to get a pair of disc is is by buying six to eight juveniles raising them up and letting a pair naturally form it's as simple as that that is the number one recommended method the reason you by six to eight is because you give yourself enough odds to get upgrading pair in the first place even though six to eight might sound like a lot of fish it's really not because even that can be a roll of the dice is just as simple as that if sexing discus and getting breeding pairs at a discus where that easy everybody would have them ok now let's move on to the tank setup so before we move on to the actual setup and the aquarium there's a couple of concerns that i want to address first a lot of people commonly asked can you breed discus in community tanks can you have other fish in the aquarium and so forth a discus breeding pair should be kept on their own in their own aquarium no tank Bates reason being is simple tanks will disrupt their breeding process and or just simply eat the eggs or fri especially when the lights go out community tanks and tank mates really shouldn't be concerned when you're interested in breeding discus the focus should be on the disc is and providing them with what they need and what they don't need is other fish getting in the way so what is the best size tank for breeding discus sip personally for me I have found the 33 gallon tanks.