New Pleco Spawn

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Re: New Pleco Spawn

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This morning I noticed that the male is in the same cave for the third time with one of the females & it's been one month to the day since the fry started hatching, so they seem to be on a 5-6 week cycle now. Since I had a good success rate with the last batch, I will do the same this time as well & hope for the same or better success.
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Re: New Pleco Spawn

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Good luck with the next spawn. Keep an eye out for more snub nosed deformities. If you use very soft water that should prevent it.

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Yesterday morning the female left the cave, & I looked inside the cave & the male was guarding another clutch of eggs, so I moved him with the cave & eggs to the 2G tank again. So here's to hoping for another 30+ babies in a few days.
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UPDATE

The last clutch of fry didn't make it, something went wrong with the heater in the tank & it got too hot.

The female laid another clutch of eggs on May 6 & the male has been guarding the eggs since. The male has been very active in the cave today so they must be starting to hatch & should see the first of the new wigglers today sometime.

Next is hopefully my L264, they have been frisky for the last while but no eggs yet.
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Very nice job.

Please keep updating.
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The fry started hatching yesterday morning & had my first wiggler from this batch at dinner time last night & now there are 8 little fry so far out of the cave. I'm hoping for around 40 this time. Especially now that the male has done this a few times.
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So far I have 28 fry out of the cave now & have lost 3 more. The male is still in the cave, so there is still more to come. Here is a pic of some of the fry cuddled up together.

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I finally got a good pic of one of the 3 month old fry

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Re: New Pleco Spawn

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The fry have now no yolk left & they now have black & white colour. The male was still in the cave a few days ago, & was going to take him & the cave out of the hatchery tank, but I shinned a flashlight in the cave & saw some fry swimming around in the cave, so I left it. This morning I woke up & there was only a few fry swimming around the filter & the rest were missing. So I looked in the cave & most of the fry have made their way back into the cave with the male which is a first, but I still have around 30 fry, but hard to tell for sure how many are in the cave.
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