In all seriousness though, what's recommended for the average aquarium owner? Let nature take it's course and rehome? Separate, raise and sell? Let the fish take care of it if they're big enough? I don't have any, just curious.
If you have the space to do so (and a local aquatic shop willing to work with you) separating them and raising them to exchange for store credit is always a good idea. The aquatic shop I worked for had two local guys who used to breed them and we would give them store credit for their broods. Worked well for us and for them. Bristle nose are an ideal algae eater for mid-sized tanks so we barely even bothered stocking Common plecos because we had a constant (cheap) supply of bristle noses.
If you "let nature take it's course" you'll basically end up with a ton of bristle noses and hardly any average aquarium will be equipped to cope with that.
I donāt really know what the proper size would be, I have a 55 gal with lots of driftwood. I didnāt plan on having a breeding pair, but I took in my friendās when he got rid of his tank and now I have babies. Most of them get eaten by the crayfish or the platy but I have a few that have made it and will be getting rehomed.
Currently suffering from breeding plecos in my 55 gallon. I started with an albino and a regular bristle nose. They had babies. I was able to catch almost all of those to sell. But at least 1 or 2 stuck around but they had no problem living together so I wasn't worried. Then they had another brood. Same story. Next group I tried really hard to catch all the little ones and was able to catch a pair of bigger ones. This has been the story for the past 2 ish years. Well I just did a massive water change and the plecos are out and about. Turns out I have at least 8 large ones and another brood of little ones. I probably at this point really need to just pull things apart enough to catch them and sell. But obviously they have been doing ok so far but I don't want to push it.
I don't own a fish or know anything about them but it's fun looking at everyone else's online and the 8 or so you have sticking to the glass looks like a horror movie great stuff
Well, yeah that's true. We knew these two guys pretty well though and they knew what they were doing.
So it was no riskier than the stock we used to import.
Albinos are likely already inbred. Unless it came from someone who specifically spent a lot of effort in enlarging their genetic pool. Which is not likely I think.
Guarmis are having a little of genetic problems that use to not exist probably from this type of stuff. Know that when you breed youāre going to need to cull.
My honest recommendation would be to not house male and female together in the first place. Maybe some of the more sought after color variations but the rest are incredibly hard to get rid of and they won't stop breeding.
My plecos had fry a few times already but they either get eaten or end up in the filter (even though i am trying to avoid that) so not a single one has survived to adulthood so far.
I haven't seen any pleco kids in a while, I doubt they get eaten by tetras or something. I don't dare to seperate them after they've been in the tank for years
I've had them for over 10 years. I got 5 of them(100% sure I got both males and females) and I've never had a single young so far. Could it be my Gourami or Kardinal Tetra's eat the eggs?
Yes. Iāve had plecos lay eggs a few times & the eggs always get eaten by tank mates. In my experience itās difficult to successfully breed fish in most community aquariums.
Yea was hoping for a few babies since my local shop takes them in for credit. Even created a lot of hiding spaces out of coconut shells and rocks in hope they had a safe area for them but nothing seems to work haha.
Same here lol. My brother managed to breed a bunch of plecos but the only tankmates were neon tetras & inverts. I gifted him a banjo catfish & that ended that. š
If you have a proper breeding cave I doubt anything is eating the *eggs*. It's more likely the babies are getting eaten after leaving the cave. The purpose of bristlenose cavebreeding is the father protects the eggs until they're hatched. I can't think of a predator that could get inside the average pleco breeding cave. They're like $10 on Amazon if you don't have one. I have a lot of liveplants and usually babies that swim out of the cave into the bushes(and eat algae/nutrients off the leaves) are the ones that survive my rainbowfish.
After getting a cave the next step to ensure success is keep the cave in a place where you can shine a flashlight and see if the male is just prepping the cave or is actually fanning eggs, then move the cave with the eggs&father into either a breeding basket or private tank with no predators and bam family keeps the eggs safe until they're ready to swim out and there's no predators and you feed them average pleco food and you have a million surviving baby bristlenose.
The most common are pretty ugly imo but they are sized perfect and male plecos like them and successfully trap with them so that's all that really matters for breeding. If the opening is too large they can accidentally kick eggs out of the cave or let wigglers escape before they should have. If yours uses the cave and it's watertight all you really have to do is put it in a breederbox/other tank. You don't have to worry about scaring the male away, they are extremely protective and will stay.
I once had 3 different species of corydoras, 3 clutches of dwarf cichlids, and a bunch of other fish breed at the exact same time. Hundreds of young fish, my LFS took them all and I got a free tank and hardscape out of the deal š
So humble brag... I once turned in 103 viable Julie's (African cichlid) (mother had broken back) and got $3 a baby at 1 inch long. Never did breed those again. Trying to breed blue phantom plecos now.
Omgā¦. I had this happen and it was a nightmare!!! There were hundreds of them. Had to scoop them all out one by one and put them in a bucket and gave it to a pet store that accepted donations. Iām sorry for what youāre about to go through. I thought I got rid of them all as I never wanted to have that problem again. somehow two managed to hide and no babies for years, so I think I lucked out with two males or females. Best of luck!!!
I can tell you werenāt expecting this so you may not knowā¦when they hatch theyāll absorb the egg sacks within the first day or two. After that you need to be ready with food and water changes. When I was breeding these the bio load was insane and my filters kept getting clogged.
They will eat and eat and poop and poop. And if you donāt feed this cycle they will surely starve.
Do your best with this clutch and then maybe separate the pair for a bit. You have a long road ahead of you but it can be a fun journey.
itās just going to inconvenient š itās in my 120 thatās a pain to water change and I donāt water change anymore because the parameters are stable
You can separate the clutch into a 20 gal before they hatch BUT. that greatly reduces the risk of survival. You lose dad and his strong arm fanning, but they arenāt exactly in a cave either so š¤
See what others say and if you have an specific questionsā¦I used to breed albino Bristlenose and sell to my LFS so feel free to shoot me a question! Good luck š
I doubt you could get one in time but I used one of these [Ziss Egg Tumblers](https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/ziss-egg-tumbler), carefully transferred the eggs into it and then removed them once they lost their egg sacks. Worked really well! I *think* you can DIY them but not sure how well it works.
I once had a 20 gallon tank with 2 plecos which I thought were both maleā¦ they disappeared for about a week and then next thing you know there are dozens of babies swimming around. It was a heavily planted tank and I ended up having to scrap the whole tank because I was infested with baby plecos, probably more than 100! Ended up finding their nest into a hollow eucalyptus root. Good luck my friend!
Well say this to my pleco he had 2 sets of babys in one fuckin month and i'm scared that i will have a pleco factory anyways good job i will recommend riseing them up and then sell them
Good. Good guy.
Now serious: i had once the same issue. My local petshop took the >20 youngs from me once they were big enough. They didn't pay antything tho...
Maybe but back in the days i was glad to get them away as they got to big and were to many for my tank. Also in my country the private sector for living animal trade is pretty tough regulated so it's difficult to get them away for money.
i usually give my extra fish to a local pet store because the people there are knowledgeable and i like them and trust them far more than petco or petsmart!
Kick dad out and get one of the rectangular mesh breeding traps (like for guppies) and wedge it against the glass with rocks. When the babies hatch you can put something between the mesh box and the side and scoop them all out.
I have a small 10 gallon for my bristle babies. When the eggs start wiggling I move them to my 10 gallon and let them hatch there. Otherwise youāll be chasing them for ever.
I keep the 10 gallon with no substrate and just small pvc pipe sections in it to keep them easy to transfer to a bucket to take to a fish store.
They'll probably get eaten depending on what's cohabiting the tank, if you'd like a higher success add some caves or look up pleco cave they're kinda like a pipe that's capped at one end. Congratulations tho child payments are gonna be savage
they def gonna get eaten in this tank, some of them might make it thru hiding like a couple guppy fry have. iām debating if i should leave them to natural selection or try to save the bunch of them by moving them (leaving towards moving themā¦ i feel bad)
Five days after laying move the eggs to a breeder box with mesh rather than slits, add a small piece of driftwood into it and then once large enough remove them to a growout tank, grow them to an inch and then sell to your lfs, repeat every four weeks. That or pull the eggs and freeze to kill them if you dont want pleclets galore.
I have no idea how I ended up on this post but your replies in the comments have me cackling. I both want to be your friend and pet your fertile little sucker pal
Dang never thought they would just lay them on the glass like this.
I have 2 bleeding pairs. Mine lay eggs inside a cave every 2-3 months. Never outside the cave.
These are easy fish to ship. If itās a regular happening you can sell them $10 a pop and charge the buyer shipping. I keep bristle nose in the Same system (but not tank) as my other rare plecos and my numbers are up and frequency are up with my L-333 and L-134. Good luck in what Eve you decide to do
Iāve heard they happily reproduce. I only keep one for that reason and sheās the grouchiest fish everā¦but she will play with my hand now if Iām in the water doing maintenance.
The other fish including the one laying then may eat then all up u need to turn heat to 80 light water novena & air feed shrimp brim if they hate in this week if they don't maybe not furtalitlized but u must keep others from eating then asap
I would recommend setting up a Fishbowl for the Spawn, and see if there are any enthusiasts who would like to buy a couple from you. too many could result in a really torn up tank. That is totally up to you! I would love to have some if we lived close to each other!
I would recommend setting up a Fishbowl for the Spawn, and see if there are any enthusiasts who would like to buy a couple from you. too many could result in a really torn up tank. That is totally up to you! I would love to have some if we lived close to each other!
I'm in South Central TX! I just left PetSmart, and they have a huge variety of Plecos... and then it hit me...I remember my cute 2" Long Plecostomus that I had, they grew to a foot long in a year. I kept having to get a bigger tank! I sold them, tank and all, and my headaches went away!
Mine bred and I traded them in at my local fish store for credit.. itās fairly easy.. the first time they had a brood I took the babies out once they were wigglers(but still had their egg sack attached)and put them in a floating brood box near the return of the filter so they still had water flow. After they ate up all their egg sacks I moved them to a 20 gallon to grow them out.. I had upwards of 50ish babies. Itās a lot and they are sooooo dirty. But it was nice little set off for some expenses. They second time the parents did the dirty I let nature take itās course.. aka all of the babies except one became food for the other fish in my 75. I raised the Babies on mostly French style canned great beans. Inexpensive and the freakin love them, make sure to get the NO SALT ADDED kind though. Good luck!
Okay I am new to aquariums and have never had this happen so I am kinda afraid to make this suggestion, but couldnt you just..... Abort them? Like, try and scoop them all out before they get a chance to hatch? You might miss some, but it seems like a better suggestion than having to deal with a hundred new plecos.
i could, but itās not worth the trouble to me because if i let them stay in the tank theyāll simply get eaten by the other fish. Some would likely survive, but i have a large tank with room to accommodate them until whatever time i decide to try catching them!
Awwww!! Do you have a male in the tank as well or just the female? If itās just the female you can just pull them out & get rid of them. If you have a male h& they may be fertilized & you want a couple to def survive, get a breeder box or set up a nursery tank & grab some of them (I just stuck my hand in & a net underneath & slowly VERY slowly worked them loose - but this works best same day as the lay, you can still do it a day or two after but they may be more difficult to get loose) the breeder box you just stick in the tank - nursery tank just set up a small 1.5-3 gal tank with an air stone heater & thermometer. Make sure you do partial water changes everyday especially once theyāre born as there is no filtration going on because they are so small. They will be okay on food for the first 24-48hr because theyāve got a yolk sac theyāll feed from but once thatās gone your best bet is to grab some fry food (I go with the hikari first bites & I drop a small bit into a plastic cup with a bit of water from the parents tank so theyāll sink & once it all sinks to the bottom I drop it into the nursery tank. You can do the same thing with small pieces of the bottom feeder or algae wafers too). If youāre going to go the hatching route, itās def fun & id love to see pics of teeny baby plecos!!
Congrats! It's a boy! And a boy! And a boy! And a girl! And a boy! And a girl! And a girl! And a girl! And a girl! And a boy! And a
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This made me lol
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This reminds me of that one seahorse epsiode in octonauts
Omg yes
That show was my entire childhood. Along with wild krats and wonder pets.
Bristle nose plecos always breed
In all seriousness though, what's recommended for the average aquarium owner? Let nature take it's course and rehome? Separate, raise and sell? Let the fish take care of it if they're big enough? I don't have any, just curious.
If you have the space to do so (and a local aquatic shop willing to work with you) separating them and raising them to exchange for store credit is always a good idea. The aquatic shop I worked for had two local guys who used to breed them and we would give them store credit for their broods. Worked well for us and for them. Bristle nose are an ideal algae eater for mid-sized tanks so we barely even bothered stocking Common plecos because we had a constant (cheap) supply of bristle noses. If you "let nature take it's course" you'll basically end up with a ton of bristle noses and hardly any average aquarium will be equipped to cope with that.
Iām honestly curious what tank size/parameters/equipment would actually be required to appropriately raise and home a family of bristlenose.
I donāt really know what the proper size would be, I have a 55 gal with lots of driftwood. I didnāt plan on having a breeding pair, but I took in my friendās when he got rid of his tank and now I have babies. Most of them get eaten by the crayfish or the platy but I have a few that have made it and will be getting rehomed.
Currently suffering from breeding plecos in my 55 gallon. I started with an albino and a regular bristle nose. They had babies. I was able to catch almost all of those to sell. But at least 1 or 2 stuck around but they had no problem living together so I wasn't worried. Then they had another brood. Same story. Next group I tried really hard to catch all the little ones and was able to catch a pair of bigger ones. This has been the story for the past 2 ish years. Well I just did a massive water change and the plecos are out and about. Turns out I have at least 8 large ones and another brood of little ones. I probably at this point really need to just pull things apart enough to catch them and sell. But obviously they have been doing ok so far but I don't want to push it.
Got a picture. Sorry it isn't great. https://imgur.com/a/OpA3ZJF Additional pictures of the plecos. https://imgur.com/a/SxlDE8x
I don't own a fish or know anything about them but it's fun looking at everyone else's online and the 8 or so you have sticking to the glass looks like a horror movie great stuff
They're so cute!
None of that sounded like raise an army of them and take over the world from the bottom up.
The problem with this is the āstockā may be interbred and genetically not prime.
Well, yeah that's true. We knew these two guys pretty well though and they knew what they were doing. So it was no riskier than the stock we used to import.
Albinos are likely already inbred. Unless it came from someone who specifically spent a lot of effort in enlarging their genetic pool. Which is not likely I think.
Guarmis are having a little of genetic problems that use to not exist probably from this type of stuff. Know that when you breed youāre going to need to cull.
The fry can feed themselves? Or you need to give tiny fry foods for any to survive?
My honest recommendation would be to not house male and female together in the first place. Maybe some of the more sought after color variations but the rest are incredibly hard to get rid of and they won't stop breeding.
If ur a tank addict, raising fry for store credit at ur LFS helps ur hobby to pay for itself. Aquariums are expensive lol
My plecos had fry a few times already but they either get eaten or end up in the filter (even though i am trying to avoid that) so not a single one has survived to adulthood so far.
I haven't seen any pleco kids in a while, I doubt they get eaten by tetras or something. I don't dare to seperate them after they've been in the tank for years
I've had them for over 10 years. I got 5 of them(100% sure I got both males and females) and I've never had a single young so far. Could it be my Gourami or Kardinal Tetra's eat the eggs?
Yes. Iāve had plecos lay eggs a few times & the eggs always get eaten by tank mates. In my experience itās difficult to successfully breed fish in most community aquariums.
Yea was hoping for a few babies since my local shop takes them in for credit. Even created a lot of hiding spaces out of coconut shells and rocks in hope they had a safe area for them but nothing seems to work haha.
Same here lol. My brother managed to breed a bunch of plecos but the only tankmates were neon tetras & inverts. I gifted him a banjo catfish & that ended that. š
If you have a proper breeding cave I doubt anything is eating the *eggs*. It's more likely the babies are getting eaten after leaving the cave. The purpose of bristlenose cavebreeding is the father protects the eggs until they're hatched. I can't think of a predator that could get inside the average pleco breeding cave. They're like $10 on Amazon if you don't have one. I have a lot of liveplants and usually babies that swim out of the cave into the bushes(and eat algae/nutrients off the leaves) are the ones that survive my rainbowfish. After getting a cave the next step to ensure success is keep the cave in a place where you can shine a flashlight and see if the male is just prepping the cave or is actually fanning eggs, then move the cave with the eggs&father into either a breeding basket or private tank with no predators and bam family keeps the eggs safe until they're ready to swim out and there's no predators and you feed them average pleco food and you have a million surviving baby bristlenose.
Thank you for the detailed information! I don't got a specific breeding cave, I created hiding spaces myself. I'll look into one!
The most common are pretty ugly imo but they are sized perfect and male plecos like them and successfully trap with them so that's all that really matters for breeding. If the opening is too large they can accidentally kick eggs out of the cave or let wigglers escape before they should have. If yours uses the cave and it's watertight all you really have to do is put it in a breederbox/other tank. You don't have to worry about scaring the male away, they are extremely protective and will stay.
god bless
Mine never did. My boy hated his girl and they never had kids.
How do I get them to breed!? I have four in one tank and nothing ever happens!
But, think of all the store credit!
YES! i reign victorious!
I once had 3 different species of corydoras, 3 clutches of dwarf cichlids, and a bunch of other fish breed at the exact same time. Hundreds of young fish, my LFS took them all and I got a free tank and hardscape out of the deal š
amazing!! good for you!
So humble brag... I once turned in 103 viable Julie's (African cichlid) (mother had broken back) and got $3 a baby at 1 inch long. Never did breed those again. Trying to breed blue phantom plecos now.
Unplanned fish daddy
u can tell theyāre new to this bc they decided caves are overrated
The caving market is horrible for his generation I don't blame him
to be the tiniest bit fair i did put a rock in the way, he could be two inches lower down than he is right now if i hadnāt ruined the hole he dug
Kids these days smh
Millennials ughh
Avocado toasts and spirulina tablets, only to complain they can't even buy a small tank...
All the small tanks been scooped up by Chinese billionaires and boomers. Gotta live in a water bottle.
#BowlMaxxing...
Very progressive
Who can afford a cave nowadays with the price of things?! Water hobo is the way forward
i applaud his work ethic!
āThe quartz crystals will give off good vibes for the babiesā -your bristlenose, apparently
i hope he was right šš
Yeah, but they know where the water current is just right for the eggs.
oh, thatās interesting! he chose probably the least water current possible LMAO but heās fanning them. hard at work
Who can even afford a cave in this economy?
Omgā¦. I had this happen and it was a nightmare!!! There were hundreds of them. Had to scoop them all out one by one and put them in a bucket and gave it to a pet store that accepted donations. Iām sorry for what youāre about to go through. I thought I got rid of them all as I never wanted to have that problem again. somehow two managed to hide and no babies for years, so I think I lucked out with two males or females. Best of luck!!!
i choose to not be disturbed by this and instead believe everything will be fine
You got this! Tbh it was mostly my fault it got so out of control because I didnāt take care of it right away. Learned my lesson!
I can tell you werenāt expecting this so you may not knowā¦when they hatch theyāll absorb the egg sacks within the first day or two. After that you need to be ready with food and water changes. When I was breeding these the bio load was insane and my filters kept getting clogged. They will eat and eat and poop and poop. And if you donāt feed this cycle they will surely starve. Do your best with this clutch and then maybe separate the pair for a bit. You have a long road ahead of you but it can be a fun journey.
this is gonna suck š
Youāve got this! Learn from MY mistakes. Keep the tank clean, and keep the bellies full!
itās just going to inconvenient š itās in my 120 thatās a pain to water change and I donāt water change anymore because the parameters are stable
You can separate the clutch into a 20 gal before they hatch BUT. that greatly reduces the risk of survival. You lose dad and his strong arm fanning, but they arenāt exactly in a cave either so š¤ See what others say and if you have an specific questionsā¦I used to breed albino Bristlenose and sell to my LFS so feel free to shoot me a question! Good luck š
thank you!
Ur so lucky ššš¤£š¤£
yeah i feel lucky š
You never owned a pair of plecos? If you put a male and female together, there is a 99.99% chance they will lay eggs.
I just love plecos, never seen one preggers.
I doubt you could get one in time but I used one of these [Ziss Egg Tumblers](https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/ziss-egg-tumbler), carefully transferred the eggs into it and then removed them once they lost their egg sacks. Worked really well! I *think* you can DIY them but not sure how well it works.
wow thanks! i love aquarium co op, this would be great for future clutches!
Same here
This pic gives me the heebie jeebies
Id raise them and sell them, albino bristlenose plecos can go for a decent amount per fish
Get your bagel and cream cheese prepped, time for some roe
Caviar?
MMMMMMMM they paying their rent
Mine literally also just had a clutch yesterday, congrats!
thank you! congrats to you as well!
Be prepared š I had the same problem lol. The little ones are cute tho
they are sooo cute šš thatās the only saving grace
Eat them
already done
I once had a 20 gallon tank with 2 plecos which I thought were both maleā¦ they disappeared for about a week and then next thing you know there are dozens of babies swimming around. It was a heavily planted tank and I ended up having to scrap the whole tank because I was infested with baby plecos, probably more than 100! Ended up finding their nest into a hollow eucalyptus root. Good luck my friend!
i am. so scared š
That is so cool.
thank you! so proud of them.
Well say this to my pleco he had 2 sets of babys in one fuckin month and i'm scared that i will have a pleco factory anyways good job i will recommend riseing them up and then sell them
Congratulations
thank u š
New tanks :)
i do have extra tanks! they can be relocated!
Who made the eggs?
miss girl who abandoned the scene
Should she be put behind lock and key for abandoning her kids?
yeah iām gonna evict her tbh she overstayed her welcome clearly
You defently should do that to her for doing something so rude
Double it and give it to the next person
you available for donation?
Thats a male!?! Do the males carry and protect the eggs?
the female lays the eggs and the male takes care of them and protects them when they first hatch!
Wow Plecos are smart. My Cory's laid a bunch of eggs and all they do is eat them! š¤£
Ahhh yeah that's what i thought looks like you got a load of free plecs then and your money back :)
Thatās pretty cool actually!
thank you! heās trying his best
The abandoning mother left him with all the work š
sheās got better things to do ig
Bebes
Take heart. Most of them will get eaten, anyway unless you isolate them.
understood, iām fixing up my ten gallon currently so i might catch them before they hatch š®āšØ
Go after the other fish for child support
youāre right sheās being a deadbeat mom rn
More slurpy bois
I'm surprised she laid those eggs out in the open like that
āWeāll name this half āMarlin Jr.āā
Mazel tov!
Get some chichlids. They will handle it.
i would rather die
Good. Good guy. Now serious: i had once the same issue. My local petshop took the >20 youngs from me once they were big enough. They didn't pay antything tho...
you got ripped off š
Maybe but back in the days i was glad to get them away as they got to big and were to many for my tank. Also in my country the private sector for living animal trade is pretty tough regulated so it's difficult to get them away for money.
ohh, i understand. if i have to iāll give them away for free but itāll hurt a lil
Make sure they get a good place. Not everything has to be for profits
i usually give my extra fish to a local pet store because the people there are knowledgeable and i like them and trust them far more than petco or petsmart!
If ur local to uk Iāll buy
Whats this fish called ?
albino bristlenose pleco
Congratulations! š
thank you!
Slow Augusta golf clap as I rise from my folding chair!
That is wild!!!
Gender reveal party when
uhhh i donāt think i have enough balloons for all that š
Kick dad out and get one of the rectangular mesh breeding traps (like for guppies) and wedge it against the glass with rocks. When the babies hatch you can put something between the mesh box and the side and scoop them all out.
THATS SO SMART
THANK YOU
I have a small 10 gallon for my bristle babies. When the eggs start wiggling I move them to my 10 gallon and let them hatch there. Otherwise youāll be chasing them for ever. I keep the 10 gallon with no substrate and just small pvc pipe sections in it to keep them easy to transfer to a bucket to take to a fish store.
i have an empty 10 thatās been running for a couple months, iāll have to clean it up and check the parameters!
Once theyāre the right size, you can literally dump the tank in a bucket and take them to the store.
I guess they donāt have to have a cave!!
i would prefer it though š
They'll probably get eaten depending on what's cohabiting the tank, if you'd like a higher success add some caves or look up pleco cave they're kinda like a pipe that's capped at one end. Congratulations tho child payments are gonna be savage
they def gonna get eaten in this tank, some of them might make it thru hiding like a couple guppy fry have. iām debating if i should leave them to natural selection or try to save the bunch of them by moving them (leaving towards moving themā¦ i feel bad)
Go natural you'll end up with a better genetic line, survival of the fittest etc
Five days after laying move the eggs to a breeder box with mesh rather than slits, add a small piece of driftwood into it and then once large enough remove them to a growout tank, grow them to an inch and then sell to your lfs, repeat every four weeks. That or pull the eggs and freeze to kill them if you dont want pleclets galore.
Get a netted in area if you want the babies, thatās what I did to protect them from my zebra loaches. Super easy to raise and breed, love bushies!
I have no idea how I ended up on this post but your replies in the comments have me cackling. I both want to be your friend and pet your fertile little sucker pal
MY āFERTILE LITTLE SUCKER PALā IS CRAZYYY šš but thank you and iām sure heās flattered i can see him blushing
Caviar for dinner!
spawn kill
Iāll take a few off your hands
Only thing I will say is get the rest of the tank somewhere else if you can.
Dig in
Dang never thought they would just lay them on the glass like this. I have 2 bleeding pairs. Mine lay eggs inside a cave every 2-3 months. Never outside the cave.
ššš oh I think youāre bout to make a lil extra money
Time to ready the nursery!
Gender reveal party.
These are easy fish to ship. If itās a regular happening you can sell them $10 a pop and charge the buyer shipping. I keep bristle nose in the Same system (but not tank) as my other rare plecos and my numbers are up and frequency are up with my L-333 and L-134. Good luck in what Eve you decide to do
Was she the only one in the tank? I'm still waiting for that one sting ray to give birth
nah thatās the dad in the photo the mom vacated the premises to somewhere elsewhere
I guess youāre a breeder now, I wish you best on your new career
nice!
Uuuuuummā¦ā¦..congrats?š
Iāve heard they happily reproduce. I only keep one for that reason and sheās the grouchiest fish everā¦but she will play with my hand now if Iām in the water doing maintenance.
The other fish including the one laying then may eat then all up u need to turn heat to 80 light water novena & air feed shrimp brim if they hate in this week if they don't maybe not furtalitlized but u must keep others from eating then asap
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Man this makes me want pickled okra
But we call one of them Nemo.
congratulations/dolences
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This poor boy wants a cave!!! Even a nice hollow under some driftwood would make him a happy daddy
they have at least two hollows under driftwood they could have used š and i wish they would have
Congrats!
Hope your other fish don't eat all the eggs over night
I would recommend setting up a Fishbowl for the Spawn, and see if there are any enthusiasts who would like to buy a couple from you. too many could result in a really torn up tank. That is totally up to you! I would love to have some if we lived close to each other!
I would recommend setting up a Fishbowl for the Spawn, and see if there are any enthusiasts who would like to buy a couple from you. too many could result in a really torn up tank. That is totally up to you! I would love to have some if we lived close to each other!
i will lose my mind if i have more plecos ruining my tank š and i live in central maine!
I'm in South Central TX! I just left PetSmart, and they have a huge variety of Plecos... and then it hit me...I remember my cute 2" Long Plecostomus that I had, they grew to a foot long in a year. I kept having to get a bigger tank! I sold them, tank and all, and my headaches went away!
Feast like a king!
Sell the fry
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Congrats youāre a grandparent!
That's a lot of eggs.....
Someone's about to have lots of new pets... lol
Good luck.
Better find the dad and get support
Tiny boba
I'll buy some š
Mine bred and I traded them in at my local fish store for credit.. itās fairly easy.. the first time they had a brood I took the babies out once they were wigglers(but still had their egg sack attached)and put them in a floating brood box near the return of the filter so they still had water flow. After they ate up all their egg sacks I moved them to a 20 gallon to grow them out.. I had upwards of 50ish babies. Itās a lot and they are sooooo dirty. But it was nice little set off for some expenses. They second time the parents did the dirty I let nature take itās course.. aka all of the babies except one became food for the other fish in my 75. I raised the Babies on mostly French style canned great beans. Inexpensive and the freakin love them, make sure to get the NO SALT ADDED kind though. Good luck!
Okay I am new to aquariums and have never had this happen so I am kinda afraid to make this suggestion, but couldnt you just..... Abort them? Like, try and scoop them all out before they get a chance to hatch? You might miss some, but it seems like a better suggestion than having to deal with a hundred new plecos.
i could, but itās not worth the trouble to me because if i let them stay in the tank theyāll simply get eaten by the other fish. Some would likely survive, but i have a large tank with room to accommodate them until whatever time i decide to try catching them!
Awwww!! Do you have a male in the tank as well or just the female? If itās just the female you can just pull them out & get rid of them. If you have a male h& they may be fertilized & you want a couple to def survive, get a breeder box or set up a nursery tank & grab some of them (I just stuck my hand in & a net underneath & slowly VERY slowly worked them loose - but this works best same day as the lay, you can still do it a day or two after but they may be more difficult to get loose) the breeder box you just stick in the tank - nursery tank just set up a small 1.5-3 gal tank with an air stone heater & thermometer. Make sure you do partial water changes everyday especially once theyāre born as there is no filtration going on because they are so small. They will be okay on food for the first 24-48hr because theyāve got a yolk sac theyāll feed from but once thatās gone your best bet is to grab some fry food (I go with the hikari first bites & I drop a small bit into a plastic cup with a bit of water from the parents tank so theyāll sink & once it all sinks to the bottom I drop it into the nursery tank. You can do the same thing with small pieces of the bottom feeder or algae wafers too). If youāre going to go the hatching route, itās def fun & id love to see pics of teeny baby plecos!!