New Pleco Spawn
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Re: New Pleco Spawn
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
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.
Andy
Andy
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Re: New Pleco Spawn
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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Re: New Pleco Spawn
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.
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.
Re: New Pleco Spawn
Very nice job.
Please keep updating.
Please keep updating.
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Re: New Pleco Spawn
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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Re: New Pleco Spawn
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.