Finally see wigglers!!!

[Pamelajo]

For many years I had a pair of lf albino plecos that took a bit to get breeding after that they breed regularly and have raised many fry from this pair. About a year ago I lost the female and the male never took an interest in any others. So I purchased another mature male to pair off with one of the mature females I raised from this pair.
At first this male would not pick a cave, then he picked one that was too big and the female kept escaping. Finally he picked another one i put in when I removed the other and was guarding eggs and I left on holidays and came back to nothing. Since then he has been in domain a few times but never for more than a day. Until two days ago I noticed he had been in there for a couple of days so moved him to 10 gallon with apple snails and tonight I finally after almost a year see little ones with egg sacks scooting around the tank.

[ReJ]

Congratz Pam! Persistence pays off :)

[Bwhiskered]

I have seen that happen as well where a male is slow to remate with a new female. If he always has two or three females with him that doesn't usually happen if he loses one.

[MsGardeness]

Congratulations Pam - you must be very excited!!

[matti2uude]

I'm glad to hear they spawned for you.

[Pamelajo]

Thanks Everyone! I really missed having little ones.
I have some more females in other tanks I may reintroduce to my old male again now that he has been a bachelor for a while, maybe he will take a liking to to one or two.

[budahrox]

Congratz!!!
Spawns are so much fun!
Good luck!!
Cheers!!!

[Pamelajo]

Thanks,
More good news the little ones have been out for about a week now, and this morning I saw another little one still with an egg sack. I think he has two batches, there were two females in the tank with him. I guess he made it worth my wait. lol

[Pamelajo]

Bad news update the first batch appears to be all short finned from what I can see from lf parents. Darn!! :banghead:

Did add two females in with my old male, hoping since he has been a bachelor for awhile he may take and interest in one or both.

Good news I see one little wiggler in the lf red marble tank.:biggrin::biggrin:

[Liquid_Pyro]

very cool, congrats

[Pamelajo]

Thanks Liquid,
Starting to see a few more red marbles.

[Pamelajo]

Looks like my old male has come out of bachelorhood. Been upside down in his barnacle for the last couple of days after I saw one of the females hanging out with him.

And..

Seeing more calicos every day.

[Romulous]

congrats Pam ...... Patience has paid off WOOT !!!

[Pamelajo]

Thanks Bill. Must be something in the water here. lol

[Pamelajo]

Not a great pic but here is one of the little calicos.

[tobalman]

Hi Pam, Congratulations and thank you for posting the picture. Is this a long fins calico or short fins ?

[Pamelajo]

This is the long finned, but hard to tell at this point if they are all long finned.

[Pamelajo]

Here is some of the new male"s fry fighting over food with the diffusa snails. In this batch I seem to have some short fins and long.

[nightowl1350]

Congrats on the spawn. I had a male BN that would spawn with 3 females and after a month or so they would all lay eggs withing a 24 hour period so it was easy to remove him and all his 150 to 200 eggs :)

I haven't had a pair in quite some time either and do miss seeing the little ones to :sad:

[2wheelsx2]

Wow, that's a lot of snails. :D

[Pamelajo]

Yes I have a bunch of them growing out with the bns.

That pic makes it look like they are wall to wall, but it is not that crowded. Food pile up.lol