It's Valentine's Day and suddenly out of the blue I noticed my Yellow and Pigeon Blood spawning in the display tank! This is the happiest experience to date! The unexpected pair got together who knows when and the yellow discus laid eggs on the driftwood. Sadly followed by the Pigeon Blood eating all the eggs! So the pecking order I observed the other day was actually a sign these two are pairing off. It's so amazing to see for the very first time in real life discus laying eggs, in front of my very own eyes! Unfortunately Pigeon Blood did not fertilize the eggs, but instead it eats them all! Yellow helps eat the eggs too.
I suspect three possibilities why the parents ate the eggs:
1. The spawning happens in the community tank. With so many threats, the parents don't feel safe for their youngs so they rather gobble them up.
2. The parents are first time parents and due to inexperience, they don't know the right thing to do with the eggs.
3. Perhaps pigeon blood is a also a female, since it is the alpha of
the tank, it wants to claim Yellow for itself, for a caviar meal.
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