Bad news again, the eggs just disappeared. I did not even see any eggs this time. I knew when she laid because she was considerably thinner, but when I checked the cave yesterday (after good 10 days), I did not see any egg nor fry.

Any suggestions about what to do next time?

Best regards,
Wim

Hello again,

My L28's are mating again. This time, they seem to take their time. The first time the female dumped her eggs in the cave overnight, now both fish are in the cave for 2 days yet. Hopefully this time I have more success. I'll keep you updated!

Regards,
Wim

Ok, I'll try that in the future if necessary. Btw my temperature still is 27°C. I raised it from 25°C to 27°C and kept it there the whole time.

Regards,
Wim

This was definitly the very first time they spawned in my tank...
Great theory, I really like to believe that! Keeps the options open for the next spawn...

Thanks,
Wim

Hello all,

Bad news on the L28 eggs! Yesterday the male kicked out all the eggs. They were not fungused or anything, but I could hardly see any ambryo development in them, and this 8 days after they spawned. According to the breeding report of Yannfulliquet, after 8 days I was supposed to have had ...

Here are some first pictures of the fish. There is one thing that I am a little bit worried about. All I can see on the eggs is a very tiny plushy red thing (hardly visible on the picture). Are they fertile? Is it normal that the embryo develops so slowly? Water temperature is 27°C.

The pictures ...

she definitely is natural beauty

about the pics: I'll see what I can do, but I really don't want to disturb them... As soon as they are free-swimming I'll try to document their development. At the moment I can post pics of the parents if you're really interested

Regards,
Wim

Hello all,

This night my L28 spawned! I bought them the 27the of december. In the store I noticed an already rather fat female, I just HAD to take her home. After searching through all the other tanks (and challenging the patience of the store's employee and other customers a little bit :) ), I ...

Thanks for the reply! I had never seen this species (actually the whole parotocinclus family) in any LFS around here before, I didn't even know about their existence . My friend is going to pick up another 3-4 fish this week for trying to breed them.

Regards,
Wim

My QA's did not come out of their hiding place for the first few weeks when I had them. In meantime a put 2 sheets of paper on the cover glass, just below the light bulb (check temp of lamp, watch out for the paper catching fire). This dims the light. Since I did this my female always comes to the ...

Hello all,

We visited a LFS today and came across following little fish, about 4cm long: http://users.pandora.be/wdaems/ufish1.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/wdaems/ufish2.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/wdaems/ufish3.jpg

The fish were named as otocinclus flexilis but after having studied the ...

Just my opinion but couldn't this fish be an L199? I've seen this species in a LFS here, named as hypancistrus pulcher...

Regards,
Wim

Hello all,

My queen arabesques are still housed in the 90L tank together with my ancistrus (didn't manage to get rid of the neolamprologus brichardi in the other tank yet). I have them for about a month now.

Since the moment I got them, I never saw them often, and even when I saw them (between ...

Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Wim

Hello Barbie: I'll try to find that posts. There should also be a breeding report of L260 on planetcatfish, but when I click on the link, the link seems to be dead...

If the fish are in the aquarium, the stripes are indeed a lot whiter. I guess this could have something to do with stress indeed. The first picture in the thread was taken a few minutes after I introduced them to the tank.
But also, the white of the container is very white, this could make the ...

Barbie (and al others): it was never my intention to make any insinuations. I just wanted to tell the people about a practice that was (and still is) used in birds.

Regards,
Wim

Thanks for the comments! Laurab: an experienced eye always sees more than a beginners' eye... That's why I needed your opinions.

Well, let's say that I that I am planning to try to breed them :-)
At the moment they are in a 90liter tank together with 1 male and 4 female ancistrus and 6 cory's. I ...

Hello,

I am not a very experienced catfish breeder, but I do have a fair amount of experience in breeding budgerigars (cfr. my nickname). There are 3 possibilities that I can think of that would result in brown fry from albino parents. The first one could be the case when the albino trait in one of ...

Hello all, I did manage to take useful pictures today (I think). Depending on these pictures, I also have a pretty good idea of what sexes my fish are ... I don't want to influence your opinions but I am pretty much convinced now that hey are male and female... What do you think?

MatsP: Thanks for ...

Ok, pturley, thanks for the reply. If I see the fish, everything seems to indicate that they are a male and female, but then I'm afraid that my observations could be quite biased since, of course, I want to see a pair in them...

Hope to have better pictures in the next few days...

Ok, so no chances to sex them based on this picture? I'll try to get some better pictures this weekend...

One more thing: I read on the site that female L260 tend to have a white belly. Well, both the fish have a somewhat marbled belly, does this mean per definition that they are both male? The ...

Any chances you can sex my queen based on this picture? I didn't manage to take a better one so far...



Thanks,
Wim

Hello,

I read a lot of catfish related articles (especially pleco's) in the last few months. I also read a lot of breeding reports. But in the most of these reports, it seems to me that the fish are kept in a species-only tank (the contrary is never mentioned). First some general questions: I was ...

I don't see real problems in that... In my tank the fish get along very well. There's only one little thing; if I want corydoras fry, I have to remove the eggs as soon as I can because my ancistrus see the eggs as some sort of delicacy. The ancistrus don't eat the corydoras fry, but my corydoras do ...

Ok, here are pictures of my catfish tank. The tank dimensions are 100x30x30 (90L)

The first picture below was taken when I had the tank running for a few weeks. Brown and green algae started to grow and I put in 5 young ancistrusses. Three hours later I took this picture, you can already see where ...

I am also very interested in pictures of pleco only tank setups where you can see te fish. I could post a picture of a pleco only tank, but you won't see any fish

Regards,
Wim

Hello all,

Thanks for the response,I'll let you know how they are doing...

Hello all,

I have about 20 ancistrus fry. Their yolk sacs are almost completely absorbed now. Maybe a stupid question but what should I feed them? The "regular" things that I feed the parents, like pellets, soaked spirulinaflakes (crushed), cucumber,... ?

Regards,
Wim