can you breed royal plecos in captivity(canada)
Posted: 14 Aug 2006, 06:26
hello I was woundering if it was possible to or if you can breed royal plecos in captivity?
thanks alot
john
thanks alot
john
It's possible. Big pleco's have been bred in ponds in Southern US and South-East Asia for several years, but those are "commons", which are certainly more easy to breed than the big panaque species - but there's nothing saying that it can't be done.
However, big panaques are still a nut yet to be cracked...
If big panaque breeding is feasible in a home aquarium is a different question altogether. These fish probably need to be the best part of a foot in length to be sexually mature, so a big tank is certainly on the order. Other factors like diet, size of group and environmental factors that cause or encourage them to spawn are yet to be understood.
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Mats