help needed sexing L270

[crazygreek]

Hi everyone I am new to the forums my name is john I live in canberra

I was wondering if some one can help me I have 7 mature L270
They all over 8cm I have been trying to get th to breed I have 4 breeding caves in my tank
The tank is 915×360×460 ph is stitting on 7 with the water temp at 28 to 30
With drif wood in it with small pebbles on the bottem I feed them hirki vegi sincking pellets zucchini and hirki carnivore sinking pellets I have been trying for 8 weeks to get them to breed befor this tank they were in a community tank

Thanks for your time to read my post and willing to take any advice on board

[racoll]

Hi John. Welcome to the forum.

Try and post some pictures of your fish from above (good example here), if you want a second opinion on their sex.

Have you searched the forum for "sexing hypancistrus", for example? There's tons of information on here.

[crazygreek]

Ok then will do

[crazygreek]

Only got 4 out of the 7 3 of them I could not get out of the caves

[crazygreek]

More

[crazygreek]

I hope this pic help some one to tell me if there male or female

[crazygreek]

Can any one sex these

[crazygreek]

Can any one tell me the correct hardness for L270

[crazygreek]

Wow this is a forum about these kind of fish and no one knows about them

[mjh712]

1 & 2 appear to be males (Hair on 2 & Male vent on 1)
3 & 4, more likely, could be females, the pictures are out of focus.

Also, look on the L270 page there are photo's that will show you differences & what to look for. Males are hairy (fin ends and along their sides) and have odontodes and a sharper vent, while females have a round wider vent and are more curved along the sides, which is why I believe the last picture (fish #3) is most likely female.

[racoll]

Can any one tell me the correct hardness for L270

In nature the hardness is very low where they are found, but

Hypancistrus

are adaptable creatures and will do okay in most types of water, avoiding extremes. If you want to breed them, you might have more luck going a bit softer, so perhaps a TDS of around 50-100 mg/l would be best.

[crazygreek]

I have the hardness stiting on 150 and ph at 7 water teamp at 26 and nuffin

[crazygreek]

Do u recommend taking everything out like drif wood and leaving just the caves

[krazyGeoff]

Hi John,
To be fair I'm not 100% convinced your fish are big enough.

Either way, if you have males in a cave, put the temp up to 27-28
Then after a few days get a small power head and place it under the water so that the output is "blowing" directly over the mouth of the cave. Have it at least 1 foot from the cave.

Then the next day do a 40% water change.

You don't need to remove the wood etc.

All the best

Cheers

Geoff

[crazygreek]

Over the past 3 days I have done all what you have said with some luck maybe y hey will breed thank you for ur help

[tlsound]

Only got 4 out of the 7 3 of them I could not get out of the caves

Looks like L134