Tropical Aquarium Fish (Discus) Caring For Eggs

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Discus Fish are great parents. On this video, you can see them guarding and cleaning their eggs and waving water over them.

The male (the blue colored fish)has just gotten back from foraging. These beautiful fish actually take turns caring for the eggs.

When the babies hatch, the parents will produce a milk-like substance from their skin. The babies will feed on this milk-like substance for the first two to three weeks of their lives.

To learn more about this extraordinary freshwater fish, check out January's Fish-of-the-Month Post on.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Aquarium
• Tropical-Fish
• Frshwater-Fish
• Discus-Fish
• Fish-Tank

[jimmysherriff]

If you want to keep Discus fish, do you have to keep them in a tank without any other species of tropical fish, such as Angels, Cichlids, etc?

[FishTankEnthusiast]

Hi,

Usually Discus should be kept in "species only" tanks. They require warm (82F-86F), soft water that's of a low pH (the temp alone excludes many potential tankmates). Also, Discus should never be kept with larg and/or aggressive fish (sorry, no angels).

A few fish, including Blue Rams, can be kept with Discus. There's plenty more to say, but I'm running out of room. So, take a look at my article on Discus found on my blog (the link to my blog is found in the youtube description above)

[amourkellie]

the blue one is beautiful

[jakebown15]

i think its A brilliant blue diamond tefe scrible mix

[m7sudenyanas]

nice fish check min hope you like it

[Ybrain100]

Lindos peixes, adorei esse azul pintadinho de preto! Muito bacana! (BRASIL)

[Aikay373]

WoW blue one looks awesome!!!

[jcboyd1210]

mrfishflakesDOTcom

[FlameMirage]

@11vs199 Cobalt Blue discus.

[juren6ify]

i love angelfishes and discus!

[TheDiscusLover]

is that a wild discus?5 stars!

[Weazell]

Yea, their certain type of water is known as "extremely clean".

[TheArnold619]

beautifull tank u hav got..wats da name of da small blue color fish..pls let me know