I cannot get the QR codes to function correctly any suggestions?

A friend of mine keeps them together just be wary that if the rams get to close or inside a males cave they might be killed

I keep them to I do keep them successful in higher PH staying in Africa our PH tends to be on the high side around 8.4 but they don't breed successfully. For that I had to get down to bellow 6 they are such a fun fish to keep and Bekateen helped me loads with his advice on them

Im so happy After 2 years of on and off trapping I finally have eggs in a cave. What a year it has been spawned two new plecos

My L168 eat anything including blanched zucchini, chopped shrimp my males are big above 15cm and do breed regularly form early spring till late summer

mine have gone dormant they should start back up around September hopefully ill have them settled in their new tank in the next couple of weeks

Welcome!! Like Eric said a mature fish is much easier to sex

bekateen wrote: ↑05 Jan 2021, 07:49 Excellent! A good spawning story is always a win!

Cheers, Eric

Scaly buggers laying eggs allover the tank including on the leave litter

Good morning Catfishers ….I had a single pair of sterbai spawn every week or so for me( about 20 or so eggs every 6 days) One of my friends had about 6 giant sized sterbai who never spawned for him, I jumped at the opportunity to add more adults to my spawning pair. Just after i added them to my t ...

fishguy1978 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2020, 03:03

Baardman wrote: ↑29 Dec 2020, 01:09 patience pays I guess ill be waiting

Congrats, my fingers are crossed for mine to spawn.

Well we are at trapping attempt nr 1765249 (at least it feels like that) i just leave them alone now and feed and do my water changes waiting for the fry

patience pays I guess ill be waiting

6 trapping attempts later still no eggs lol breeding plecos is sooo much fun

bekateen wrote: ↑08 Dec 2020, 05:03 Good luck! Don't be disappointed if they break apart for days and restart.

Cheers, Eric

first 12 hours are done and the are still trapping (not exactly sure when they started), I felt a bit pervish staring at the vibrating tail

I finally have a trapping hoping its a successful one. You can not get the smile off my face. Thanks to Eric and Lars for all the advice and guidance

Markw thanks for the share on your post it just shows you they will breed when the want to

today will be the 5th consecutive 30% water change then ill stop i had a lot of issues over the weekend power cut of 9 hours my cycled crashed lost my 2 lda074 plecos saved the tank by moving a cycled sponge filter over from another tank. I must say the L387 in the tank are tail wagging like mad fish

thanks buddy ill keep doing what I'm doing Ill do 5 consecutive waterchanges this week and then back to normal fo two weeks and see what happens

28 degrees Celsius closer to 30 being summer, Twice a week the get chopped prawn

mixture of zucchini, chopped prawn, hikari carnivore pellets and maybe some left over flakes that the dither fish don't eat

Last year breeding season my males where tail wagging but no females where interested. This year I added another adult female, males are wagging again females are definitely getting bigger( assuming they are producing eggs). Im using RO mixed with tap ph around 8 tds 38 gh 1 kh 1, tank water is ph7 ...

Thanks buddy

Hi guys silly question i cant find them on the c list or the cw list any help?

I finally had some time to watch the whole 3 part set. I must say well done!!

So what your saying it will take time to neutralize, I will try to keep my tds count stable between 50 and 60 I really need it to go down to the low 5's. On the butterfly plecos the ph influences the incubation time of the eggs if its to high they hatch prematurely. Thanks for the massive reply ...

Thanks ill wait +- 7 days and test again

Finally got a RO filter going did my first changes did small 30% changes My L168 tank tds is down to 60ppm GH1 KH 1 but the ph is still stuck at 7.6 how long before i can expect it to stat dropping? Will the drop happen gradually? I do have lots of wood in the tank and also added some liquad tree ...

up to about a decade ago i never knew about other pleco species accept for the common sailfin pleco, This site has opened my eyes to all sorts of catfishes. I even started a whats app group called Catfish South Africa to start getting a catfish community together. Learning and growing my hobby is ...

how closely related are your breeders? might be that they are inbred so much that the genetics are weak

thanks buddy

think it was posted a month or two ago cant find the link