CanadaPleco
01-23-2009, 02:32 PM
Well I wasn't expecting this so soon. Let me go over how this has all happened.
Back in March of 2008 I ordered around 10 of these beautiful fish from Oliver at BelowWater.com I have since moved around a bunch and did manage to loose a few.
In April of 2008 I bought a new house and they were all to themselves in a 125 gallon aquarium. It really did not have a ton of filteration on it. I was running an Eheim W/D 2229 and just a bunch of power heads for some good flow. I feed a few times a week, nothing major. Did water changes every few weeks at best. The tank was in a weird spot and it made water changes very aquard to do.
Now in Late November I moved this 125 gallon tank into and all the L240's into my fish room. Here the temp was around 80 degrees. Lots of caves and some big rocks and a bit of driftwood.
A week ago (Jan 15th) I moved 3 fish into a 90 gallon aquarium that is setup with 2 other 90's and a shared sump. There is a small power head blowing water infront of some of the caves, I put in 3 caves of various sizes and locations. Figured that might be enough for 1 male. When I moved these 3 fish into the 90 I just caught them, put them into a small container so I could photograph them and then dumped them right into the 90. No waiting for temps or anything to adjust. The water was maybe 2 degrees colder in the 90 at 77-78 degrees. They all seemed fine with this.
Jan 19th - I noticed I can only find 2 of the fish, Mr L240 has one of the ladies trapped in his cave. She is in here for 3-4 days.
Jan 23rd - I go to do my rounds in the fishroom, and look to see if she is still in the cave. NOPE, whats there is a huge ball of eggs. I am going to guess around 50-100 good sizd eggs. Hard to tell as teh cave is quite deep. I tried to photograph the eggs but could not get 1 picture, just too deep. And I did not want to scare Mr L240 into eating his eggs.
Now I just hope they are fertilized and the babies will hatch. He does not seem to be fanning nearly as much as Ancistrus Sp3 do, but I don't know anything about this family of fish and their parenthood.
I am hoping to get the fry out of his cave once they are nearly free swimming and have used up most of their egg sacs. I think the baby (1.5-2") peacock cichlids would love eating them. Now I have a few days to go and make a fry saver to put in the aquarium.
Ya ya, so happy this is my first fancy pleco spawning.
Rich
Back in March of 2008 I ordered around 10 of these beautiful fish from Oliver at BelowWater.com I have since moved around a bunch and did manage to loose a few.
In April of 2008 I bought a new house and they were all to themselves in a 125 gallon aquarium. It really did not have a ton of filteration on it. I was running an Eheim W/D 2229 and just a bunch of power heads for some good flow. I feed a few times a week, nothing major. Did water changes every few weeks at best. The tank was in a weird spot and it made water changes very aquard to do.
Now in Late November I moved this 125 gallon tank into and all the L240's into my fish room. Here the temp was around 80 degrees. Lots of caves and some big rocks and a bit of driftwood.
A week ago (Jan 15th) I moved 3 fish into a 90 gallon aquarium that is setup with 2 other 90's and a shared sump. There is a small power head blowing water infront of some of the caves, I put in 3 caves of various sizes and locations. Figured that might be enough for 1 male. When I moved these 3 fish into the 90 I just caught them, put them into a small container so I could photograph them and then dumped them right into the 90. No waiting for temps or anything to adjust. The water was maybe 2 degrees colder in the 90 at 77-78 degrees. They all seemed fine with this.
Jan 19th - I noticed I can only find 2 of the fish, Mr L240 has one of the ladies trapped in his cave. She is in here for 3-4 days.
Jan 23rd - I go to do my rounds in the fishroom, and look to see if she is still in the cave. NOPE, whats there is a huge ball of eggs. I am going to guess around 50-100 good sizd eggs. Hard to tell as teh cave is quite deep. I tried to photograph the eggs but could not get 1 picture, just too deep. And I did not want to scare Mr L240 into eating his eggs.
Now I just hope they are fertilized and the babies will hatch. He does not seem to be fanning nearly as much as Ancistrus Sp3 do, but I don't know anything about this family of fish and their parenthood.
I am hoping to get the fry out of his cave once they are nearly free swimming and have used up most of their egg sacs. I think the baby (1.5-2") peacock cichlids would love eating them. Now I have a few days to go and make a fry saver to put in the aquarium.
Ya ya, so happy this is my first fancy pleco spawning.
Rich