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  1. What kinds of plecos do you own?

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    I also, have added to my list ;) D.

    the list:

    L006 Peckoltia

    L025 Scarlet Pleco

    L034 Medusa Pleco

    L046 Hypancistrus Zebra

    L128 Blue Phantom Ancistrus

    L134 Leopard Frog Peckoltia

    L174 Hypancistrus Spotted Zebra

    L183 Starlight Bristlenose

    L201 Hypancistrus Inspector

    L260 Queen Arabesque Hypancistrus

    L190 Royal Pleco

    LDA-22 Panaque Maccus-Clown Pleco

    Albino Ancistrus

    Veiltail Albino Ancistrus

    Regular Veiltail Ancistrus

    Ancistrus Triradiatus

    Ancistrus Teminickii

    Ancistrus Hoplogenys

  5. L260 QA pleco spawn

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    Hey Smokey,

    I've been able to count at least 30, which is a pretty large spawn..I've read about spawns as small as 7...I'm going to move them to their own tank fairly soon...I noticed there are two Adults in a cave together again, so I'd like to move the fry and do a couple large water changes to get them spawning..David

  7. L260 QA pleco spawn

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    Yup Queen Arabesque ;) Fry are doing really well-eggsacs are completely absorbed(I didn't lose one fry) and they're eating frozen BBS, sinking carnivore tablets, and algae disks...here's a picture from yesterday:

    L260fryjan11.jpg

    p.s. the camera is a sony cybershot 3.2 megapixel...above picture isn't great, but i do end up with some pretty good ones-considering the size of the fry!

    David

  10. L260 QA pleco spawn

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    Hey Smokey,

    Eggs took about 4 days to hatch...they are now a little over 4 days old(the wigglers) and I'm thinking it's be almost a week before they finally absorb their entire yolk sac...here's some new pics from just a moment ago...they've colored up a little more, and grown considerably...David

    L260wigglersjan2b.jpg

    L260wigglersjan2a.jpg

  16. L260 QA pleco spawn

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    A secret?? hahahaha...no...that wouldn't be fair if I kept it a secret... ;)

    "The male has had a female trapped in a cave off and on(she left 3 times) for the last week...Dec 24 I guess they spawned...the eggs look MASSIVE!! much bigger than bristlenose eggs...

    the tank: 50 gallon, bare bottom, with 3 of those caves made out of slate tiles siliconed together and a piece of dritwood...there's an AC300 pushing water the length of the tank, an air-driven sponge filter, and also a powerhead attached to a sponge filter pushing water the length of the tank...4 females and 2 males in the tank...the females have been very gravid for quite a while,(3 still are) so if this spawn isn't fertile, I'm sure there's more eggs where that came from...

    I had been doing water changes once a week with RO for a while, and finally decided to bump the parameters back up for a while and then start again...I did a big water change with regular tap, and soon after they started hanging out in the cave together...I believe Barbie said she's had spawns like that, where just the change makes them spawn, not necessarily a change of lower hardness...

    So, those are the details...I guess it'll be a few days before they become wigglers, if they're going to hatch...I'll probably notice the movement in the cave if they do hatch-or the lack of eggs if they don't and he eats them..." ...

    <<---cut and paste from another post of mine somewhere else..

    At this point I've got 10 wigglers in the breeder basket, and a whole bunch still being cared for by the male...

    the temp is 82,(it was as high as 86 at times while conditioning them to spawn) the water is dechlorinated tap water with a ph in the high 7's, and a conductivity/tds( I can't remember which my meter is) of about 400--to me it's basically regular tap...

    I've had the fish for over 6 months and basically spent most of that conditioning them with tons of food and trying to figure out whether I had males and females...there are 6 fish in the tank(and a couple bristlenose fry as cleaning crew) 2 males and 4 females...

    I don't want to ramble on too much, if I missed something just ask...

    i think the biggest thing about getting some of the harder L#'s to breed is time...once the females are gravid with eggs, if the males aren't ready(sexually mature) you have no choice but to wait...and wait...all 4 of the females are gravid-I'm guessing the other male will eventually step up to the plate or they will breed with the current breeding male..

    David

  20. L260 QA pleco spawn

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    I'm not sure...he's doing a good job of protecting some...one of the other QA's in the tank keep's trying to get into the cave, and in the act of ejecting the "visitor" I think he dislodged some...He's very attentive to the remaining ones...I'm kindof glad some were dislodged-now I have some in the cave and some in the basket, so I don't have 'all my eggs in one basket' so-to-speak...And I can snap pics of the ones in the breeder basket as they develop/grow/color up, without disturbing him anymore..David

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