There are 1,000s of Discus at this AMAZING Urban Hatchery / Wholesaler! Simply AMAZING to see a real discus hatchery in action! Darren and Donna from Southern Discus Centre here in Melbourne, Australia are doing a fantastic job breeding, raising and selling thousands of beautiful discus in all sorts of sizes, colours and patterns. If you have ever wondered where your discus come from, how to turn your hobby into a business, how to breed and raise discus or anything else then this is the video for you! You can keep up with Southern Discus Centre on Facebook here: Hope you liked this Tour! Please Comment, Like & Subscribe. 0:00 Introduction 0:31 Discus Growout Tanks 1:27 Feeding Schedule and Diet 2:04 Fishkeeping Background 3:15 Sexing Discus / Blue Rime Red Cover Pair 4:00 Breeding Cones and DIY 4:57 How Many Tanks and How Many Discus 5:27 Stocking the Tanks and Separating the Batches 5:50 Waterchange Schedule 6:51 Filtration 7:39 Spotted Eruption Future Breeders 8:05 Mating Behaviour and Age 8:18 Take the Eggs or Leave the Eggs? 9:33 My Favourites 9:55 Adult Feeding and Waterchange Schedule 10:31 Filtration For Adult Tanks 11:21 Discus Keeping Philosophy and Background 12:24 Discus Pairing, Philosophy and Mixing 14:31 What to do About Runts? 15:50 Fry Batches and Stunting 18:28 Breeding Pairs with Fry 19:51 Line Breeding Chat 21:11 Imported Stock 22:03 Discus Keeping Temperature 22:46 Fry Raising Process 23:50 The New Discus Hatchery 25:22 Future Plans 26:11 Hatchery Filtration 29:15 Hatchery Stock 29:48 Catching out of IBCs 32:42 Sorting the IBCs 35:03 Outro This video is sponsored by Aquarium Universe. Visit and enter code “BlakesAquatics“ to get 10% off your order. For the best quality, healthiest fish order online today from Allfish2u. Shipping Australia wide (with some exceptions) visit and use code 'BLAKE10' for 10% off your order. Buy my Aquarium 3D Prints on Etsy; Become a Blake's Aquatics member; Facebook; Instagram; Blake's Aquatics Discord Server; Merchandise available at; Podcast episodes are also available as an audio podcast on your favourite platforms such as; Spotify, Apple Podcasts or via; #Discus #DiscusHatchery #BlakesAquatics
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