Gabe's videos are so enjoyable because you can see how much he loves what he does...and how much he loves the fish. It also doesn't hurt that he seems like a likeable guy.
No Sir. Thank You & Everyone else involved in helping keep the general public educated and informed on your profession and lastly people as yourselves are the reason the Aquatic Pet Trade, Hobby,Love & Passion for animals still exists to this day & better than ever might I add (with people as yourselves available as pioneers to lead the way) THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO!! I HOPE THE JACK WATTLEY CREW ALWAYS FINDS TIME FOR US (Until The Next Time) TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS 👋From So.Cal
Hi Gabe greetings from London Great Britain. Thank you for the new videos you are posting. I remember in the late 70s Early 80s seeing my first discus in a shop in Victoria. London They were 4 Tefe green discus if I remember correctly. They were about £300 pounds each. They were dinner plate size They were amazing I had never seen such fine fish before. And that memory has never left me. Please keep up the hard work you and your team are doing in this Discus part of the hobby. Sadly I know something of what you have said about family members not being involved in the hobby but we all choose our paths in life and like you I respect there choices.
Hi Gabe , would do the video on best discus filter and its media suitable for discus tank ! And how often to clean the aquarium filter . Thanks regards
Great video. My question is when do you pull the breeding cone? How many days after free swimming Can you pull the breeding cone? All my fish are still hovering around the cone and picking at the mom here and there .
Stop thanking us. We should thank you most informative excellent information cheers Just thought saying that might give ya either more time for information or more time for other vids 👍😝🙃 Thanks!
Hi gabe..... nice video, 1.make videos how to attach fry to albino discus( people say albino can't get darker and its difficult for fry to attach) ..... there were many miths about albino discus.
Thank you gay from the awesome tutorials I really appreciate You and your information so I've just had my 1st successful breeding and my mail is not looking so good I'm thinking I need to take him out as it OK just to take the mail out and leave the babies with the female the babies or 2 and a 1/2 weeks old
I never had Discus before so this brief tutorial is excellent for me. I’ve kept fish before, but never higher temperature fish. I would consider Discus, if they were juveniles. I would love to see them grow out. I keep a community tank at 78 Degrees. If I would slowly raise the temperature to about 81 Degrees I would raise them. So, how young do you sell your juveniles?
Ok, that was great. Now, how many spawns do you let a pair have b4 you give them a break? Do you separate them, keep them together? Do you continue feeding them heavily as you would for breeding, or cut back? How long do you breed/spawns for the pair?
Hi I have a question about my discus. I have my discus in a tank with female bettas. They were al doing great but then I noticed that the discus had eggs. What do I do with the bettas. Should I leave them in there with them or should I take them out. Thank you
Hello from Houston TX, I have a breeding pair in with 6 other Discus, how can I get them to grow and stay strong, with a growing out tank by themselves???, keep in mind the pair just spawned last night 🤯🤯😎😎, thank you for your time and consideration.
Hey Gabe! I have two discus (a Snow White and a Cobalt blue) in a 55 gallon tank that just spawned for the first time! We were totally taken by surprise and your videos have been so helpful with preparing us to care for the babies. The babies are still just in the wiggling stage and I’m hoping they make it. We’re doing everything you’ve recommended so far. My question is, if we’re able to raise up some of them to maturity, would it be safe for us to reintroduce 2-3 of the babies back into the tank with the parents once they’re grown? What are your thoughts? Thank you so much for all your valuable advice!
Hello Gabe, me again. The babies have been swimming freely since yesterday. Both parents have taken good care of her until now. Now the female is completely bright again and leaves the work to the buck. He wants to give the little ones away from time to time, she lets them get close to her for a moment and shakes them off again when she wants to. I think it's too much for the buck and I'm worried that they'll eat the little ones. Should I try to raise the little ones? What can I do. Lg
hello there,would like to ask a question, my discus laid eggs on bogwood in comunial fish tank,is any chance to remove the bogwood to separate tank with the parents???is that gonna be secure for them???
Gabe around 1995 when I read Jack Wattley's book, Mr. Wattley used an artificial method. Is that method still used today, My best regards to Mr. Wattley and the entire Wattley Discus crew, especially you Gabe
can i ask you why mu discus parent just keep eat all the babies. and after lay eggs again for couple week. how i can do to keep them don't eat babies. my ph 6 low. thank you for you help
I have a question if anybody on here can answer for Gabe can.I noticed that my discus some of them are Pooping like white sand color.can any one tell what that can be thanks
Hi sir all babies r dying I don't know what to do ???? They are free swimming shall I reduce the water level so that they can find parents to feed them on or shall I pull all fries and grow them artificially in 100 fry its about 15 to 20 I think its left
Hi Can u plz suggest on below point I have discus wiggler in breeding tank with parents. Wiggler are 20 days old . But the parents have started to fight . So should I remove the parents . Could u plz suggest .
Question: If I'm looking to grow out a group of discus in hopes of finding a breeding pair, should i avoid buying a group of siblings because of the inbreeding? I know it's not generally a good idea to get discus from several different sources, but if i get a bunch the same size and strain from one breeder they're probably siblings, right?
buenas tardes,hay muchos aficionados al disco en España y de habla latino,tus seguidores españoles no entendemos nada,podrías hacer tus videos en español,haci no entiendo nada,gracias
Hi Gabe, I have a quick question for you which I'm sure will not get an answer. You have very nice-looking discus. I'm sure many people purchase from you quality discus in which they are going to breed and possibly enter competitions. I'm just wondering, are you recording genetics and if so how many generations back are you recording? I'm sure you do being this is the only logical way of improving the quality of any species. You can't adjust the genetics until you have a record of them in the beginning! I'm pretty sure when Jack Wattley was breeding his discus he almost would've certainly had to use recorded genetics in his processing to get such good-looking fish. Anyway I was just wondering on what you do. Some people do not do this so I wonder what they are doing to improve their fish? Great looking fish!
Genetics is best studied when coming up with new strains. It's done to acquire the best characteristics of two separate strains to mutate them into one. since I'm not coming out with any new strains or creating a new strains I'm not really documenting anyting other than not to go beyond f3. Once this happens we either out cross to a different lineage within the same strain or we swap out fish with other reputable breeders so that they have our line and now we have theirs. Hope this helps to answer your question.
@@JackWattleyDiscus okay a couple more questions please. Not trying to be a smartass I'm going to purchase fish from you in the near future because I want to do an experiment on them and yours are the best looking fish I can find for this! Anyway in this video when you took the fish or the babies and just put them in a different tank with other babies from different parents there's no way you could safely record genetics anymore unless you do DNA testing and I doubt anyone is going to do that! LOL. Anyway I did this testing with Labrador Retrievers from regular stock and after three generations they were already competing in hunting competitions. I'm sure it applies across the board to different species but I want to see how. Anyway when you produce your F2 why is it that you don't introduce another parent so you have two individuals to concentrate on? Of course they have to be extremely good-looking and what you want to move forward. Also do this again after the babies grow if you like what you see. After this I just kept online breeding back to the lines of dogs that had the traits I desired until eventually I had basically created a strain on my own. By doing this it's actually is much easier and faster to get the traits you're looking for and can achieve it in fewer generations. 8 years ago one of my dogs from just average stock won the National Bird-Dog Challenge for that year in which when I started this the two dogs had no hunting aptitude at all other than they liked the water, which makes them basically about the same as a fish when it come to hunting! Do you know did Jack ever engage in line breeding like I so briefly explained without getting into too much detail? Anyway sorry this was so long and I'll be in touch with you soon!
Great video again. I cant belive the amount of down to earth and straight shooting info you give us
Gabe's videos are so enjoyable because you can see how much he loves what he does...and how much he loves the fish. It also doesn't hurt that he seems like a likeable guy.
No Sir. Thank You & Everyone else involved in helping keep the general public educated and informed on your profession and lastly people as yourselves are the reason the Aquatic Pet Trade, Hobby,Love & Passion for animals still exists to this day & better than ever might I add (with people as yourselves available as pioneers to lead the way) THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO!! I HOPE THE JACK WATTLEY CREW ALWAYS FINDS TIME FOR US (Until The Next Time) TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS 👋From So.Cal
Wow!!!!!
Gabe, you are THE MAN! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, your knowledge shines bright .
Hi Gabe greetings from London Great Britain. Thank you for the new videos you are posting. I remember in the late 70s Early 80s seeing my first discus in a shop in Victoria. London
They were 4 Tefe green discus if I remember correctly. They were about £300 pounds each. They were dinner plate size They were amazing I had never seen such fine fish before. And that memory has never left me. Please keep up the hard work you and your team are doing in this Discus part of the hobby. Sadly I know something of what you have said about family members not being involved in the hobby but we all choose our paths in life and like you I respect there choices.
Straight talk on discus breeding and PACKED with GREAT advice, as always! Can you make a video about what signs to look out for when culling fry?
The best information clips so far in any website... sir I learned lost of things from you..all of your clips . lots of love and respect..
Thanks for share Gabe, your knowledge is always importat to everybody who loves Discus fishes.
Hi Gabe , would do the video on best discus filter and its media suitable for discus tank ! And how often to clean the aquarium filter . Thanks regards
Thank you For Sharing such a good information about discus fish.
Another good video. One id like to see from you is how the tanks are plumbed etc. looks like an interesting set up
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Jack Wattley Discus just watched it. Thanks very much! Was very interested in those downpipe covers ;)
I would love to see the plumbing to
Another awesome video from the awesome guy...keep doing the good work man...god bless you
Very cool! I can't get enough of your videos - keep them coming!
Trying our best to get as many out in both languages.
gabriel You're awesome thank you for sharing the information and videos
Thanks Gab thanks for your advice
Great video. My question is when do you pull the breeding cone? How many days after free swimming Can you pull the breeding cone? All my fish are still hovering around the cone and picking at the mom here and there .
nice video! A video about all the medication treatments that are required for young discus would also be very welcome
PP on the way
You are by far the best of youtube.
Stop thanking us. We should thank you most informative excellent information cheers
Just thought saying that might give ya either more time for information or more time for other vids
👍😝🙃
Thanks!
Longer videos please gabe love watching them all
I know, but remember these video's are to help you. That's my goal. I live from the sales we generate which is very time consuming.
Amazing video today, though it was uploaded 2 years ago when I didn't even know there is fish called discus.
Do you not upload videos neadays.
hi, can u explain about paperring on discus??? and how to remove it.
Great
Mr Pasado, you are a gem of all
Michael Gomes
India
Give us more new videos love your videos.keep up the good work.
Hi gabe..... nice video, 1.make videos how to attach fry to albino discus( people say albino can't get darker and its difficult for fry to attach) ..... there were many miths about albino discus.
Excellent video, Thanks Gabe.
Thank you for being so generous with all the information.
Thank you gabe as usual great video
Great video... Thank you for the advice.. thank you for sharing
Thank you very much for this video. I remove this baby a month of life. But his father suffer a lot. I shot before
Thank you Gabriel, from Brasil❗👍
Great info!
Are you don't growing them with egg yolk anymore?
Too much work, no longer.
Thanks for your guidance
Pleasure. Enjoy the hobby.
@@JackWattleyDiscus thank you Sir
I have a? About the Asian discus can you keep them in regular city water and do water change 2 times a day or they get stress that way
Treat them as regular discus. They don't need two water changes daily
Cool thanks
Worked flawlessly. Thank you
Can I use Epson salt in aquarium for discus and angels? Thank you very much
Thank you so much for all the information you share with the community!!
What size tank do you recommend when breeding?
20 gallon high
What's the best heater you suggest for a 300gallon?
800-1000 watt. Finnex makes one with a digital controller. You can see it on our website www.wattleydiscus.com
Thanks very much
Good vídeo Gabriel. God bless you
Pls guidance all water tempreture in tanks
Thank you gay from the awesome tutorials I really appreciate You and your information so I've just had my 1st successful breeding and my mail is not looking so good I'm thinking I need to take him out as it OK just to take the mail out and leave the babies with the female the babies or 2 and a 1/2 weeks old
That would be thank you Gabe
Help I need to know what to do with my male hes not looking so hot after having babies eat on him for 2 and a 1/2 weeks
Dear Gabe please give us a method for soften the water as you already shown us how to reduce PH of water. Thanks.
By using an R/O filter. We did a video on the installation of one
@@JackWattleyDiscus thanks a lot Gab you're an honest person.
I never had Discus before so this brief tutorial is excellent for me. I’ve kept fish before, but never higher temperature fish.
I would consider Discus, if they were juveniles. I would love to see them grow out. I keep a community tank at 78 Degrees. If I would slowly raise the temperature to about 81 Degrees I would raise them. So, how young do you sell your juveniles?
3-4 months
Jack Wattley Discus -Very Cool!
Awesome! Another great video Gabe.!
You are the best Gabriel
Thank you Sir. You are a Good teacher.
Excellent advice
Ok, that was great. Now, how many spawns do you let a pair have b4 you give them a break? Do you separate them, keep them together? Do you continue feeding them heavily as you would for breeding, or cut back? How long do you breed/spawns for the pair?
Question - is mixing discus from different sources \ breeders ok?
Different blood lines is essential for good genetics
Thank you for your very helpful vidieos.
are you going to ever breed wild discus?
Done It. Put those videos on our Facebook
Excellent video and explanations
Hi I have a question about my discus. I have my discus in a tank with female bettas. They were al doing great but then I noticed that the discus had eggs. What do I do with the bettas. Should I leave them in there with them or should I take them out. Thank you
Hello from Houston TX, I have a breeding pair in with 6 other Discus, how can I get them to grow and stay strong, with a growing out tank by themselves???, keep in mind the pair just spawned last night 🤯🤯😎😎, thank you for your time and consideration.
Isolate the pair to their own tank.
@@JackWattleyDiscus is it ok to move the eggs as well??
@@salvadorvelasquez6611 move the pair they will spawn again
@@JackWattleyDiscus well understood boss and thank you for your time and consideration 😎😎
@@JackWattleyDiscus I apologize for being a bother I have 29gal hospital tank would that be enough room for the pair 😬??
Thank you so much jack
Great video again so awesome and intresting thank you guys...
How to discuss breed can u explain?
Wow, I want to work in your facility, lol, really... I love your Discus....
Is water from water softener will good for discus?
Yes it is.
Got a good one for you after 4 months I noticed I got 2females can I buy 2 males or one male to reproduced?
Gabe, Do you believe the discus market is over saturated since it's such a specialty niche market?
Not if with these videos I can get more hobbyists involved.
question, why the discus eating their fry ? is this normal for first time parent ?, if not, what is the solution ? thanks.
more videos in spanish pleace. they are the best
There is software you can get for free that does this for you!
I do not mean that. If not, to the inclusion of Spanish speakers ... your information is good ... it has always been
Hey Gabe! I have two discus (a Snow White and a Cobalt blue) in a 55 gallon tank that just spawned for the first time! We were totally taken by surprise and your videos have been so helpful with preparing us to care for the babies. The babies are still just in the wiggling stage and I’m hoping they make it. We’re doing everything you’ve recommended so far. My question is, if we’re able to raise up some of them to maturity, would it be safe for us to reintroduce 2-3 of the babies back into the tank with the parents once they’re grown? What are your thoughts? Thank you so much for all your valuable advice!
How old is the baby fish separated from their mother Gabe?
Hello Gabe, me again. The babies have been swimming freely since yesterday. Both parents have taken good care of her until now. Now the female is completely bright again and leaves the work to the buck. He wants to give the little ones away from time to time, she lets them get close to her for a moment and shakes them off again when she wants to. I think it's too much for the buck and I'm worried that they'll eat the little ones. Should I try to raise the little ones? What can I do. Lg
Excelent dear friend. Remember to make the spanish too
Going out today also.
@@JackWattleyDiscus i would like to see a video talking about discus quality.how chose breeders.
Very useful information.Thanks.
hello there,would like to ask a question, my discus laid eggs on bogwood in comunial fish tank,is any chance to remove the bogwood to separate tank with the parents???is that gonna be secure for them???
Better off leaving the wood and just removing the parents to their own seperate tank. They will lay again in 7 days.
Gabe around 1995 when I read Jack Wattley's book, Mr. Wattley used an artificial method. Is that method still used today, My best regards to Mr. Wattley and the entire Wattley Discus crew, especially you Gabe
can i ask you why mu discus parent just keep eat all the babies. and after lay eggs again for couple week. how i can do to keep them don't eat babies. my ph 6 low. thank you for you help
Make a video on the survival rates of the fry
I have a question if anybody on here can answer for Gabe can.I noticed that my discus some of them are Pooping like white sand color.can any one tell what that can be thanks
Love the videos 👍👍
Which food is better for one month baby (name and brand please )
I have free swimmers that are a day old when should I start feeding brine shrimp?
3 days after being on the sides of the parents.
Thanks for the come back. I think your videos are awesome.
How old the baby
4 weeks
how to characterize old discus fish?
Brilliant!
I m new with discus...do I need to change water after every beef heart feeding
No but feed lightly so everything is eaten after 5 minutes of feeding
Hi sir all babies r dying I don't know what to do ???? They are free swimming shall I reduce the water level so that they can find parents to feed them on or shall I pull all fries and grow them artificially in 100 fry its about 15 to 20 I think its left
How to find out male and female in discuss by body gender
Hi
Can u plz suggest on below point
I have discus wiggler in breeding tank with parents. Wiggler are 20 days old . But the parents have started to fight . So should I remove the parents .
Could u plz suggest .
Put a devider in-between. Or remove babies
@@JackWattleyDiscus thanks
Spanish versión please..
Más tarde sale.
@@JackWattleyDiscus 😁 Gracias!!
In juveniles smaller are females and bigger are males is this happens all the time?
Sir, why my Discus with eggs in her is not eating
My pairs eat the babies after the wiggling stage.every time. Can I raise them separately from the parents?
Artificial rearing is tedeous work.
Question: If I'm looking to grow out a group of discus in hopes of finding a breeding pair, should i avoid buying a group of siblings because of the inbreeding? I know it's not generally a good idea to get discus from several different sources, but if i get a bunch the same size and strain from one breeder they're probably siblings, right?
Depends on who you get them from. Large breeders tend to have many pairs of the same strain and if smart they keep different bloodlines.
Thank you I use you food to greed my discus 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🌷
"I hope this video was as good for you guys as it was for us." It. Was. Amazing... *Drags on cigarette*
🌸🌸🌸❤️❤️😊😊You are a great
Simply Blessed
thank for the video
🙏👍
buenas tardes,hay muchos aficionados al disco en España y de habla latino,tus seguidores españoles no entendemos nada,podrías hacer tus videos en español,haci no entiendo nada,gracias
Gabriel lo suyo seria en ingles y los subtitulos en castellano... A mi parecer asi abarcarias los dos idiomas
Ya el segundo vídeo acompañado este, está listo para salir. El problema es el tiempo que se demoran en transcribirlo para hacer el artículo.
Gracias crack!!!
How to increase male fertility in discuss
Hi Gabe,
I have a quick question for you which I'm sure will not get an answer. You have very nice-looking discus. I'm sure many people purchase from you quality discus in which they are going to breed and possibly enter competitions. I'm just wondering, are you recording genetics and if so how many generations back are you recording? I'm sure you do being this is the only logical way of improving the quality of any species. You can't adjust the genetics until you have a record of them in the beginning! I'm pretty sure when Jack Wattley was breeding his discus he almost would've certainly had to use recorded genetics in his processing to get such good-looking fish. Anyway I was just wondering on what you do. Some people do not do this so I wonder what they are doing to improve their fish? Great looking fish!
Genetics is best studied when coming up with new strains. It's done to acquire the best characteristics of two separate strains to mutate them into one. since I'm not coming out with any new strains or creating a new strains I'm not really documenting anyting other than not to go beyond f3. Once this happens we either out cross to a different lineage within the same strain or we swap out fish with other reputable breeders so that they have our line and now we have theirs. Hope this helps to answer your question.
@@JackWattleyDiscus okay a couple more questions please. Not trying to be a smartass I'm going to purchase fish from you in the near future because I want to do an experiment on them and yours are the best looking fish I can find for this! Anyway in this video when you took the fish or the babies and just put them in a different tank with other babies from different parents there's no way you could safely record genetics anymore unless you do DNA testing and I doubt anyone is going to do that! LOL. Anyway I did this testing with Labrador Retrievers from regular stock and after three generations they were already competing in hunting competitions. I'm sure it applies across the board to different species but I want to see how. Anyway when you produce your F2 why is it that you don't introduce another parent so you have two individuals to concentrate on? Of course they have to be extremely good-looking and what you want to move forward. Also do this again after the babies grow if you like what you see. After this I just kept online breeding back to the lines of dogs that had the traits I desired until eventually I had basically created a strain on my own. By doing this it's actually is much easier and faster to get the traits you're looking for and can achieve it in fewer generations. 8 years ago one of my dogs from just average stock won the National Bird-Dog Challenge for that year in which when I started this the two dogs had no hunting aptitude at all other than they liked the water, which makes them basically about the same as a fish when it come to hunting! Do you know did Jack ever engage in line breeding like I so briefly explained without getting into too much detail? Anyway sorry this was so long and I'll be in touch with you soon!
@@Paul-cq2we I have 5-6 different lineages of almost every strain I breed.
Eggs r becoming white what to do
perfect
keep it up
Gabe knows
Love it!