Anyone using Ada Amazonia for plecos?

[matti2uude]

Does anyone use Ada Amazonia for their plecos? I've had my L183s spawn 3 times now but haven't had any surviving fry. I was wondering if using Amazonia might help. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[racoll]

This is soil, right?

Why would putting soil into your tank help your fry to survive?

[Firestorming]

You can replicate the natural environment with out having to use this soil. (I am assuming thats your line of thought).
Maybe share some more info on the breeding set up, water conditions, feeding regime etc and the massive amount of experience on this site should be able to help you out.

[jlim]

I have 2 tank of plecos.. 1 with soil and 1 with silica.. the plecos are fine.. there's no different if you put them in soil or the other.. but i don't know if it's fry..

[matti2uude]

You can replicate the natural environment with out having to use this soil. (I am assuming thats your line of thought).
Maybe share some more info on the breeding set up, water conditions, feeding regime etc and the massive amount of experience on this site should be able to help you out.

I'll post all the params this weekend. Thanks for the input so far.

[matti2uude]

The tank is a 20 gal long with a thin layer of Eco complete. Filtered with an aquaclear 50 and a large sponge filter. The temp is 80 and I use tap water. I'm not sure how many 183s are in there, maybe 8 or 9 and a pair of unknown hypans as well as 5 sterbai corys. I will try and measure the water params today. There's wood and various caves for decor. I feed them Kens earthworm and veggie sticks and Nls Thera a 1mm and grow.

[matti2uude]

The Ph is 7 and the Tds is 396 ppm. I just did a 20% WC and filled it up with RO/DI water.