CanadaPleco wrote:An all white belly has nothing to do with the sex of the fish. I've watched both white and spotted bellied L260 lay eggs.
I agree because color patterns are simply too variable to rely upon in sexing this species.
I have been keeping and breeding L260 since '06 and have reached the point where I have bred my own F1 adults thus now I am raising some F2 from my collection of L260.
I have not had a lot of success breeding mine. Mainly due to infrequent spawns, small brood sizes and delicate fry. It has been a three steps forwards and two steps back over the years thus it is taking me more time than I expected to accumulate the target of at least 50 adults retained for breeding. I began with six survivors and presently have about 38. If I hadn't lost some or part of some broods I would have had close to 75 specimens by now.
I had some major losses among my original sub-adult wild specimens I acquired in '06 which reduced my original 12 wild fish to only about 6 adults during my initial parts of my learning curve. I only began my serious forays into collecting groups of rarer small Hypancistrus in the summer of 2006.
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