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Here are couple photos of my third spawn of Ancistrus sp. "Snowflake".
This species was hard to trigger but now they won't stop. LOL!





Here are some of the adults.

http://www.l-welse.com/reviewpost/showp ... 567/cat/44

http://www.swisstropicals.com/Ancistrus ... flake.html

they are damn handsome!

They look stunning well done

Well done, AFAIK, this species doesn't have an l-number which is odd as it's really rather attractive. I think it might be because we don't know where it comes from, but I'd need to check...

Jools

Jackster wrote:shipped from Manaus to Germany so their country of origin
is definitely Brazil.

Manuas is the tropical fish export hub of South America. It doesn't mean they naturally occur in Brazil but its likely. That said, not much use unless there is more data and I don't think it will be forthcoming.

Jools

Hello Jackster, can you tell me what the size of the adults are? I am in the market for some dwarf ancistrus. I hear that A. claro is one way to go? Any suggestions?

And congradulations!!

Congratulations and those are a n attractive species.
I would like to see as many species of the smallest Ancistrus take a larger role in replacing common A. cf. cirrhosus which can grow a little too large for many tanks.
These and Ancistrus claro are more attractive than commons.
I am hoping to acquire a couple dozen A. claro next spring to further the cause.
I want to remove and replace all commons I keep for general algae eating duty with "Dwarf" Ancistrus spp.

Jackster wrote:
so I guess I would consider both of these "dwarf" Ancistrus species.

I think that's a good description and agree these are excellent choices for breeding pojects / wider distribution in the hobby. On size, similar in ratio at least to to . I think and also fall into this category.

Jools

Jackster wrote:So the Ancistrus sp. "Snowflake" is now

Ancistrus sp(5)

?

Yes, they're the same thing - it doesn't have any other designation I can use, so we end up with a number. A bit dumb, but that's all we have with this species.

Jools

It's not dumb. We have to start somewhere so sp. 5 sounds fine to me.

Here is the adult breeding male.

Yesterday I saw this and today there is another batch of eggs!