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one year ago I bought two tiny ancistrus, one turned out to be female triadiatus and one male punctatus. this morning my tank is swarming with little babys. How can I get them out quick before the other tank inmates have eaten them all. I know I could not sell them but it would be nice if one or two would survive.

If they are already free swimming in the tank, best advice I can give, is to provide lots of hiding spots where the other fish can't get at them. I don't like moving babies that are already loose in the tank, I find it to be hard on them. Small PVC tubing, snail shells, things like this work well for them to find good hidie-holes

Well!

If your guesses are correct about the ID of the fish and if the fry is not coming form any other possible fish, well you have a crossbreeding and you really should not spread the young, but you sure could keep a few but only for you! Fish like that should not be spread around at all.
You could go searching around to provide an male and a female of the same species to both of your ancistrus!
Cheers
Yann

I agree w/ Ben, if you truly want to keep them I'd try adding a piece of driftwood with small holes much like African root (Swahala?) preferably an aged piece w/ some algae growth. Normally LFS will sell you pieces out of their tanks so it is possible to buy aged wood if you don't have extra in another tank.

Got my moderator cap on again folks, sorry!

PLEASE can we have more descriptive topics than "Help" or suchlike.

"Help! Bristlenoses have spawned" or similar is much more .

There are other examples of this elsewhere, it's just bad luck I picked this one. No individual offence meant.

Jools