My 6 L-204 Flash plecos were between 3 and 4 inches long when I bought them last February. They are now big enough to spawn and hopefully not far from it. At least 2 are now mature males 6"+ long not counting the filaments on the tail. The females are plump and about 5". A lot of sparing a...

alenate wrote:I have the same problem with my 66´s.
The ting that i´v notise is that death usually accure right they have been feed.
It seems like they sufficate.
Someone with the same experience?

When I come up with an answer to the problem I will post it.

Hi Bwhiskered, Like Barbie said, I've had similiar problems with my L333 and L287(L399/L400). This only is occuring with one group. I have another group of L333 and L340(L399/340)that does not have this problem. I am still working on trying to figure out what the problem is. If you should find out ...

If your fish spat out sixty fry, then they are most definitely not L-66. My fish are L-66. I feed my fish heavily with mysis shrimp. They are 6" long and at least 3 years old. My L-201 have had as many as 31 fry in a spawning. Some people have told me that they only have 6. Healthy well fed fi...

fishfarmer wrote:Are you keeping the spawning bowls and 10 gallon tanks at 85? Mine wouldn't breed at temperatures less than 82 and seem much happier at 84-85, so I would assume the fry also like it warmer.

Steve

All tanks and bowls run at 84 to 86.

i have got 6 of these fish. I am sure that i have 4Females and 2 males. I have gottem 4 spawns from them before and non of their eggs have been fertile/fungused within 2-3 days. All ranged from 12-27 eggs. But today i had a spawn of 46 eggs. As usual i collected the eggs and put them in a small ice...

After 55 years in the hobby and raising a few thousand fish of various species every year I usually am able to figure out the answers to my own problems.But sometimes some one has answers to save you the losses that you have trying to figure things out. Early in January my King Tigers kicked out a c...