Cheers, going to give it a try!

I'm looking for tips to catch Hypancistrus fry from a scaped tank without having to mess with the scape.
Any recommendations where to buy these fry traps or diy tips to make one?

What I tried is several brands of snail traps but they don't work.

I'd say 2 females.

Nice scape Dan, but I prefer your old style a little more..
I guess it's just a matter of personal taste though.

nice vids, congratz on the spawn!

Maybe you could add some of his pictures here with his permission?
Here's a link from someone who breeds them:
http://www.akvarista.cz/web/atlas/detail/?id=237

Sorry scientist0724, only reading your question just now. Google "ardenner rocks", got them at a local garden center. Update September; Pterophyllum altum rio orinoco f0 Hypancistrus zebra Paracheirodon axelrodi Corydoras trilineatus http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/Rainbow007/IMAG08...

Awesome post, thanks for sharing!

Do you have an estimate on how many l46 are out there, surely the numbers must have grown since they're "not" being exported anymore?

Testing new bait resulted in this catch last weekend.

Sad but expected..

Have a look here:
http://www.scotcat.com/articles/article72.htm

Agree with TTA here..
They're not figuring out anything, what you see here are to many males fighting for to few hiding places.

At the moment ~15 adults, ~8 sub adults and some fry.
The breeding group is kept in a 105gallon tank, most of the fry is kept in a seperate 33galon grow-out tank.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/Rainbow007/IMAG0727.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/Rainbow007/IMAG0725.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/Rainbow007/IMAG0722.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/Rainbow007/IMAG0716.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/Rainbow0...

lovely additions to the group, congrats!

Thanks, seems it was just a test trapping though.
She's moving in at night and moving out after 24hours for a few days now.

Sadly the vid turned out very dark uploading it to youtube, but I'll still share it as it's pretty unique footage.

Trapping:


A short one:

Stunning, thanks for sharing!

Very interesting fish to keep.

From top to bottom, the third and the last one look female to me.

Zeno wrote:Hey JayC74,

The best results I have with New Life Spectrum (meat)

Greetz, Zeno

What store do you order this from if I may ask?

I feed my l46 fry crushed sera viformo tabs, they love it.

Nice fish!

Very attractive 66

Such nice looking fish, good luck with them

Great job, Dan

Update:

New vid:

Maybe we can have a discussion if someone has an idea how we can escape from this swamp … Could hold a fund razor and send a few PC members to the xingu to observe the colonies/get national geographic interested to document/sponsor. Not sure about what permits you'd need etc. It's not a very realis...