Moved: What do you do with the fry that grow up?

[coolchinchilla]

Moved to breeding forum:

As a future plan I'd like to get some cool discus and let them spawn. I think it would be cool to have a bunch of baby fish -- I'm enchanted with the pics of the parent discus and all the fry hovering around 'em. I'd have a grow-out tank and such.

Then I got to thinking... what would I do with the fry once they grew up? How many fry would there be? Would I be able to find homes for 'em all? I'm not planning on turning into a big time discus breeder. I just want to be an occasional hobby breeder. Would the fish graciously not breed if I didn't have the space or time for the new babies? I imagine the LFS would take a few but not the whole brood.

What do you do with your grown up fry? How many survive to adulthood? I assume you can't keep ALL of them all the time.

Thanks in advance
coolchinchilla

[mumrah]

Most LFS (non petsmart/petco places) will take fish for store credit. You just have to grow them out until they are at a sellable size.

My LFS will accept fish regardless of sellability. They have 5 or 6 20g tanks reserved for ppl who's fish got too big, or who are moving and can't take their fish along. But then again, i have a really awesome LFS.

I would ask around before i had 20 juvi discus to deal with

[Fishyfanatic]

Just as mumrah said, the lfs will most likely take them off your hands for you, but don't count on store credit. Not all of them do that. I actually only know of 1 and they don't give you all that much.

[greenmaji]

www.aquabid.com If you can grow them out (1.5-2" or bigger)