Just like real discus, these two caring parents have stuck by the eggs since they were laid and are staying by them now while the fry grow up. Only 7 of our 24 eggs have hatched. 5 are female, 2 are male. Isn’t this exciting? It’ll be a while yet til we can see what the babies look like but we’re well on our way.
Holy WOW, everyone! My discus have finally bred and made babies. This time, it’s Dibella and Spartacus! I can’t seem to open up their Genes for viewing so let’s see if we can at least estimate their phenotypes. Naturally bred fish don’t operate on degrees of 25 for most of their genes like I used in my gene study but we’ll be using them to guess anyway.
There are a pair of genes for each line (A-H) but we’re going to base this strictly on their phenotype. Maybe we’ll learn something about gene dominance in these discus when the babies are born!
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A – 50 B – 50 C – 0 D – 50 E – 0 F – 100 G – 100 H – 0 |
Dark Red Discus Thick Blue Halo No Bars |
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A – 100 B – 0 C – 50 D – 50 E – 50 F – 0 G – 0 H – 0 |
Orange Discus Blue-Green Stripes One Bar |
My eyes could very well be fooling me but that’s what I see. I wish I could double check but, unfortunately, FisherMan isn’t working properly. We’ll see what the babies have to say about their parents genes when they’re born!
As of the 17th of July, their parents are still protecting their small clutch of 24 eggs.