I have heard that 5, with 2 male and 3 female, would be a good mix. But i am not 100% shure.

grettonman wrote:I have bred them before with lots of filters to get the turnover of water but I was trying to create a tank that was more pleasing on the eye

Thats why i tried to talk about the O2 level. If this is above 6 ppm you could stop adding filters/pumps and see how i turns out. (and soft water).

I dont know your filters, but i have spawned QA inn the same type of tank. And i would say that if your O2 level is above 6 ppm, then you should bee in good shape.

In my Juwel rio 300 i have one Eheim 2026, one fluval 404 and one sirculation pump with an airtube, that gives 1000 L/H.
With a ...

My guess is that the darkest and the ligthest, are males. mye aye sigth is as bad as my english, so i cant make out the others. But this is just mye guess.

Thanks mats. Thats my problem then, the site dosent let me do that trick.

And if the big L 260 are not L 260, what do i call them ?
And why are there so many french and german sites that say L 260 can become 12 cm long ?

100% shure as there were no others in the tank, they made more than 100 fry last year.

Thank you.

Janne wrote.
The offspring that are pictured, what species is that?

The offspring are from the adult that the tread is about. I have 7 of them, and was suposed to have them with my other L 260, but now i dont know. In worste case senario, i have 2 ore 3 different types of hypancistrus ...

Greate looking plecos ! I tryed to enlarge the picture to have a closer look, but it just became fussy om my scren. But they are quite young arent they ? And how did you manage to post the picture direktly into the post ? Sorry fore the off topic.

In another tank, i have a L 260 witch always is paler than the others. I have now postet it with the rest, and called it "New Picture" there is to Hypancistrus in the picture.
What do you tink of that one ?
Its about 1 year since I got it.

And fore the originale fish, that we were talking about ...

Do you have any links to both the artikkel and anything else relatet to this ? And Tank you you fore your interest !

The fish could offcourse be an adult and darker version of the L 318 shown above. Spesialy that line behind the head, but doesent some QA have similar ?

The fish was sold from the ...

Jon wrote:yes.

Okkidoki I made a new tread, please help . http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... 1150#81150

And sorry fore messing up this one. But the earlier info still apply, as i have at least 20 real L 260.

I bougth these as L 260 Queen Arabesque. They look the same as many of my other L 260, but they are 12 cm / 4,7 inches. I have found some sites where they say that L 260 can become this big, but others say they can just become about 4 inches. The pictures are of a couple and some of the pairs ...

Line wrote:Hi

I prefer to look at the shape of the head. Seen from above.

Females like <
Males like {

I hope it makes sense

Best regards
Line

Are you shore its not the other way ? < is male ?

Jon wrote:They look like monte dorados--not L-260, to me.

Did you mean my fish ? http://www.akvaforum.no/akvarium.cfm?id=1423#imgs

You can also try this site. scroll down http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 0/l260.htm

My QA spawns at 80-82 degrees. Higher temperatures than this is only used for dry seasons imitations. ( in my tanks). I usually have a current at aprox. 10 times the tanks volume p/h. They hawe spawned at aprox 4 turns p/h, but make shure the O2 level is high. I use 8-10 ppm.

This is Norwegian ...

Janne wrote:If they are or when they will be mature there are a big risk that L66 and L260 could crossbreed, I would not keep them together if your goal is to bread them.

Janne

I just want to say the same as Janne. L066,L260 and L333 should not be together inn the same tank.

Get yourself a male zebra placo and a female QA. I have both, but you live far away.. But if you would trade one of your female zebs, i am shure there is many arond that could help

I think that after your first spawn, its quite easy to get them to do it again. So now all i do, is to give them a 50% water change. But the first time was the trikky one. I did it all,rainy season,food,currency.. Then my friends told me to let them alone. So when i came home after a 3 weeks ...

I give my L 260/L046 Frosen food like cyclops,worms,artemia,home made Discus food, but mostly its a miks of these: http://webzoo.net/site/maler/x/?case_vis=visprodukt&kategoriID=24&produktid=20&Navn=02.%20Tetra%20Pro&HKatID=18
http://webzoo.net/site/maler/x/?case_vis=visprodukt&kategoriID=24 ...

Griparn wrote:Thanks for intresting posts guys!

I have to say the same, Thanks for all the good info !!!

Sorry i`m bad. I ment mm. As i sad before my L 260 could chose between both and whent for the smallest, but they are not more then 10 cm long. But i did have a 12 cm ancistrus sp witch also tok the smaller. But i can only speake for the fishes i have i my own tanks.

I have used the same sice as we use fore the L 046, internal 32x22x140 m/m i have also made with 40x30x160 m/m, but they have chosen the smaller one, and they have given us some fry in these

I my home town there is a place that has 38 young Zebra pleco`s fore sale

http://www.bergenakvarieutleie.no/malawiciklider.htm

It`s nice to be us. I have used this shop before and they are greate.