Yesterday was another article on Discus behavior but a friend found a video showing how the young like to cluster about their parents and these are cold-blooded fish, right. Usually they just lay the eggs and forget them ... or so it seems. (Blog: Watching Discus has Nothing to Do with Olympic Sport)
But take a look at this.
It was this kind of behavior which endeared these creatures to the Mystery Lady and I. Humans love to anthropomorphize things but we don't need to bring much of that for this case since it's tough to call this anything but real parenting. At this stage they are starting to grow away from their parents but this is quite some time after they were nearly microscopic hatchlings, absolutely dependent on their parents.
Wild Discus come from the Amazon and their original colors are intriguing but there's been quite a bit of hybridizing from the wild stock and one of the most famous people doing it was Wattley since he produced the first strain of Turquoise Discus which would breed true. In effect, he raised 'thoroughbreds' and they were quite greatly prized at that time. Since that time, techniques for breeding Discus have improved substantially and there are many different varieties of them. Relative to other strains of Discus bred in home aquaria, the Wild Discus is a wallflower.
Here is a Turquoise Discus
It's possible the photographer over-saturated the colors but there's not strong evidence of that in the greens. That doesn't make it a lock that the pic was not modified but we can tell you we have seen Discus like this and the ones we were raising were not so much different, albeit with more red which I liked quite a bit.
But take a look at this.
It was this kind of behavior which endeared these creatures to the Mystery Lady and I. Humans love to anthropomorphize things but we don't need to bring much of that for this case since it's tough to call this anything but real parenting. At this stage they are starting to grow away from their parents but this is quite some time after they were nearly microscopic hatchlings, absolutely dependent on their parents.
Wild Discus come from the Amazon and their original colors are intriguing but there's been quite a bit of hybridizing from the wild stock and one of the most famous people doing it was Wattley since he produced the first strain of Turquoise Discus which would breed true. In effect, he raised 'thoroughbreds' and they were quite greatly prized at that time. Since that time, techniques for breeding Discus have improved substantially and there are many different varieties of them. Relative to other strains of Discus bred in home aquaria, the Wild Discus is a wallflower.
Here is a Turquoise Discus
It's possible the photographer over-saturated the colors but there's not strong evidence of that in the greens. That doesn't make it a lock that the pic was not modified but we can tell you we have seen Discus like this and the ones we were raising were not so much different, albeit with more red which I liked quite a bit.
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