Hi

I struggle to believe its a common pleco. (I have one hes 14 inches and names casey :) aka tank destroyer)

This brown "thing" has grown 1/4-1/2 inch in a year.. which in my opinion too slow for a common pleco.

My friend wouldnt have anything second hand in his tanks. He wouldnt even do live ...

more pics of the brown :)

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Got more..
Pictures of the male too

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Oh something else I noticed.

The brown one does NOT come out when their is light. If the tank light is on then he is no where to be seen! If I catch him as the light comes on his fin goes down and he shots into the submarine. Is this behaviour trait to any other pleco?

I think Spawning them and documenting it may help?

Without knowing the species I dont know how to induce the spawning season with them.

With my BN's I give them 3 days of good feed, do a huge water change 60%, add 30% RO water and usually breeding commences.

Maybe I should try induce spawning ...

bekateen wrote:P.S. Sorry to tell you this, but your link to an image of the fry doesn't work. Here, I'll fix it:

Thank you

You're right to observe that for plecos (of any kind) to spawn successfully, you must have both a male and female together at the time the eggs are laid for successful reproduction - plecos are not like guppies and other fish where the female can be inseminated once by a male and then weeks or ...

Up date of today,

I now have both parents and 1 albino fry and brown fry. ive also taken measurements. Albino is 2.5 Inch and Brown is 3.5 inch. They are all in my 3ft tank alone (Just incase my friends 2ft was stunting growth) I have no other fish or plec in the 3ft with them.

Brown fry is 2cm ...

This is also a King Tiger

Looks like a tiger to me, Just different colour slightly.

A friend of mine will only breed the brown and white. Looks like hers, Just fatter? Maybe full of eggs?

Possible Green Phantom L200 http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/spe ... es_id=1805

I would say L340, Do you have an adult we could see?

Hi, Ive been looking at these pleco all day,

They are a friends. They are the only two pleco he has. Has had them 1 year.
One is albino (4-5 inches) one is not (5-6 inches) Neither have really grown in the year, He put a submarine deco in the tank and all a sudden he has babies!!!

We have looked ...