L183 breeding with albino bristle nose pleco. Possible ?

[will5]

Hi i have two questions.

1. Is it possible for L183 to breed with albino bristle nose pleco?

2. does L183 eat live plants?

[Shaun]

1. Doubtful, but it could happen. Not a good idea to do it deliberately if thats what you are planning.
2. Generally they won't eat live aquarium plants, but they will nibble on soft-leaved stuff as they're a herbivorous fish. If they are lacking vegetable matter in their diet they're much more likely to attack plants.
HTH
Shaun

[MatsP]

I agree with Shaun's both points on breeding L183 with albino's. Albinos are

Ancistrus sp(3)

, a different species to

Ancistrus dolichopterus

, and to cross-breed those would create a hybrid - it's possible that they are close enough genetically to cross, but that should definitely be avoided at all costs. There is enough confusion about the origins of some of the common Ancistrus species without creating any further mixed origin species...

Ancistrus species in general will not eat plants, they will try to eat algae on the leaves, and may "wear down" the plants in the long term, but they are not herbivores in the plant-eating respect, but rather that they eat "aufwuchs" or Perihyton, which is the stuff that grows on rocks, plants and other surfaces in an aquatic environment.

If you want to breed Ancistrus, keep the species separate! If you don't want to breed them, keep one sex only [males or females only]

--
Mats

[will5]

Hi no i don't want them to cross breed if i buy one and stick him or her in the tank with my albino bristle nose
pl*co's. I just wanted to know if it was OK for them to be in the same tank. so that they may breed with there own kind and would not mix. But I guess from what I am hearing is that it "might" be possible. So that in it self is enough to say for me not to house them together in the same tank

Well thanks for the help.