... 3-4 Celsius as it normally does.

The female has been very gravid for a couple of months now, so I guess it was only a matter of time before they spawned.

I have lost two eggs to fungus so far, I managed to find some API Pimafix locally so I put the eggs in a separate container floating in the ...

They have spawned again, and once again the male has kicked the eggs, despite the cave entrance being raised, he doesn't seem to be cut out to care for ... I've repeated this three times so far.

For now they are in a floating breeding trap with a decent flow of water over them, hopefully I have more luck ...

My L260 have been doing a similar thing for several months, the male leaves his cave and the very ... they aren't the only fish doing it! They have spawned before, so I would have thought they would ... maybe the male doesn't see it as a suitable breeding location?

Hopefully they will spawn for you ...

They have spawned again and the eggs ended up in the same location, because I didn't get around to raising the cave entrance. I put the eggs in a small container floating in the tank with an alder cone and air line, changing the water a few times per day.

They all fungused again but took about twice ...

... to the cave stopped the spawning.

Edit to include a strange place to spawn (by common tank strain bn)
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They spawned inside the sponge filter because of the donut shaped bubbler I used instead of the traditional cross piece.

L260, L134, L183 all spawned in planted tanks with lights on

... again Jorgehdzy!

I am currently keeping and breeding this species. The comment above was because I ... in a tank with a trio of adult Hypancistrus sp. L260 without any problems. I also have a separate tank with 1 male and 2 female super reds by themselves. Both trios of super reds have spawned regularly ...

... often produce more than 40 fry per spawn and spawned non stop.
I think they are a good one to try beyond BN but they are fairly large compared to L260. I kept 3 males and 4 females in a 40 breeder and ... of my filter sponges.
I have maintained a breeding colony of L260 since 2007 and they have been ...

While most Hypancistrus I keep have spawned whether I did rainy seasons or not, that is not the case with my H. zebra, or L260. Both of these guys seem to really need induced to spawn. I know a couple other breeders that have had the same experience, but I do not know if there are other Hypancistrus ...

... really old thread. My goodness how time flies! In the years between, I spawned and sold hundreds of these guys, then crashed the tank they were living ... morning I found fry in with the male!

I have two groups of young F1 L260 growing out already that should begin spawning in the next year, along ...

... would want to separate them at about 2 inches or so. Since I have never spawned the 260s, I can't comment on how they behave at various stages of growth. But I have noticed that zebras follow a progression from free swimming to breeding size.

When tiny you will find almost all of the fry huddled ...

I've learned something new this morning.
I've spawned many hypancistrus (L46, L66, L174, L199, L201, L260, L270, L316, L340, L400) but never ever did hatching take longer than 4 days.
My Zombie male had his 3 spawn (first 2 failed) and it felt like it took for ever. Even started to think the eggs were ...

... brood of 25. I have had a few as large as 35.
On one occasion a male spawned with two consecutive females within a day. I got about 45 from that odd ... than L134 and I made a mistake one time of trying to raise about 20 L260 fry with what started out being the same size L134 fry. The L260 were ...

My group of L260 spawned for the first time, when they were around 2½ years old.
The fishes spawned without doing any special changes in the aquarium.

... made a bad mistake combining new fry from my L260 and L134. The L134 out grew the L260 by many ... can produce.
I could have set up my new breeding groups a year ago but since my wild fish had been so productive and reliable I didn't have much incentive.
Since my old fish still haven't spawned ...

... keep and to breed.

As I wrote before my Hypancistrus sp. L287 "Glaser" spawned first at the end of Deceber 2010 at the size approximately 9 cm TL ... plants in the tank because of faint light. The neighbors where L262 and L260.
The first spawn happened after I changed 80% of tank to RO water with ...

... 35. In one unusual case, two wild females spawned in quick succession with one male and their ... unequivocally say that L134 have a definite breeding season; only that mine seem to.

Yesterday I had a surprise of my own. While making water changes and refilling my L260 breeding group's tank I ...

... give you any solution at your problems - my L260's spawned in a suddenly - I did't do any special.
My L260 are F1 and they was 2½ when they had their first spawn.

Hi Plecomanpat
Yes - I know that ... I bought them.
- the same disease hit my breeding group of L183 - all of these died. I couldn't ...

Hi Jacob,
I think creating 2 breeding groups from the one large one is the best way to go.

To us ... I have had a lot of the same problems with L260 of infrequent breeding, ejected eggs that don't ... new plants I bought a few weeks before they spawned. The same disease caused that my female who ...

... But It really cold be the same.

I keep them (pair) in a 100 l tank with L260 and L262. And they have already spawned.
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... You can actaully see the eyes of the to be wiggler forming in the egg, looking about ready to come out.

When I got a pair together and they spawned for the first time I got a small batch of 3 to 5 I beleive, but they keep getting bigger as they go on a streak where I had up to 20 fry. Then ...

... talk last week at the catfish convention Hans mentioned that most of the L260 available in the hobby in Europe are actually L411. They breed easier and are hard to differentiate when they aren't completely mature. I've had L411 at my shop that spawned at 3.5" SL. They should be larger than L260, but ...

Do you keep them in fairly soft water and then try partial water changes using RO replacement water?
That is the only thing that I could remotely associate with their spawns. All cues have been too vague for my perception. I never knew mine had spawned until I would find their newly released fry.

... happening, if was the L201 l would be certain to see eggs in the cave the same day or day after a female took up this position...l am missing something, but what is it, maybe they have spawned and l just cant see it, but l am sure he would have kicked her completely out by now if that were the case

... which belong to the smaller sized species like l260 and H. zebra so I was not being very accurate by ... I did not get around to setting the L333 in a breeding tank until a little more than a year after I received them but they spawned within six weeks once in their breeding tank. we do know that L333 and ...

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my breeding group of Peckoltia sp L134, Leopard Frog ... excited every time I discover my plecos have spawned. I never check their caves for eggs. I just ... my Queen Arabesque, Hypancistrus sp L260 failed to spawn at all this winter. I guess I ...

... from my L333.
I'm finding it harder to get my L260's to spawn than the other plecos I am breeding and like Zebras, their brood sizes average only about 10 after losing 1 or 2 per brood. And they grow ... up in their new tank in October they haven't spawned. Maybe they just take longer to adjust?

I don ...

My L333 have spawned in very soft water with a pH of about 6.0 but they spawn well enough in my tap ... since I don't really know which ones are breeding at any given time. I don't pay very much ... which spawn from March 1st to Sept. 1st and my L260 seem to spawn best between November and February ...