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Been trying to find out what this little chappy is. This chap was born in my RIO120, the parents were a common plec (mum) and a bristlenose (dad). I don't really know much about plecs part from they eat the alge and don't do much else.
Cansomeone let me know what specie he/she is pls.
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I would have to say that I very much doubt that the parents were a common plec and a bristlenose though...
Martin
[EDIT]Looks like Mats beat me to it [/EDIT]
If your "common" is really a common pleco, then it will not lay eggs with a bristlenose - if nothing else, the bristlenose will not be big enough to "wrestle" the female into a cave and it's spawning position. I'm absolutely certain of that. It is of course possible that if you've bought a plant or a piece of wood from a tank in a shop, you've got fry that way, or perhaps you did have a female bristlenose in there at some point.
I can guarantee there were only two plec's in the tank and only ever have been (bar the new edition!). It may be posible that both plec's were bristle nose's I don't know but the tank was running as a sealed system apart from tap water going in so I doubt there was a fry introduced by mistake.
We did see them (her) lay a whole bunch of yellow eggs in the lava rock but there were baby oscar's in the tank at that point and needless to say they didn't survive very long!
Charlene's just finding some old pics of Mum and Dad for indentification and I think she's got a pic of the eggs as well.
Yes definitely both bristlenose. Males have bristles up the centre and around the edge of the face, and females just around the mouth.
It looks like one of the fry managed to survive, even with baby oscars! That is one lucky fish
Martin
Thats all cleaed up then. When I buy anymore fish from lfs, I'll post them up to double check the names.
The baby pleco wasn't with the oscars at the time we found her, it was the second lot of eggs that got it. Shame really as they were the only pair I had .
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