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So, this 3rd spawn of the L-240 has been much more successful than the first two. I added an additional filter with built in UV, and not a single egg was lost, as far as i can tell. I removed most of the babies today, but left about 30 in the cave with dad. As far as i can tell, the total number is TNTC !

Holy cow! That's a crud-ton (as we say) of fry! Congratulations on the improved success. Will these little ones be at Catfish Con?

Cheers, Eric

Thanks Eric!
I plan to bring some to every convention I can, and I certainly think I will be able to have enough. Now to grow them out.
Andy

Wow that is amazing! Congrats!
I also recently purchased a breeding group of these beautiful pleco's and am hoping to also breed em one day.
Can you tell us more about your breeding tank setup and water parameters?

Mario

Thanks Mario!
Sure....I have 7 fish in a 90 gallon tall, tank. 3 bigger fish, and 4 half their size and nowhere near ready to breed. The tank is bare bottom (but painted on the outside), with a lot of caves and hiding places (i will try and take a photo of the tank, and upload it, but right now the lights are off). There are a few floating plants, and a small piece of driftwood. They spawn in a homemade clay cave, that in my opinion was a big too big for them. Often, the female had her head towards the opening, and the male was in the traditional orientation, so they would "69", but I am not sure of their ultimate position during the spawns. They would be in and out of the cave over a period of days leading up to the spawn. Temp about 82. The water was medium hardness and a pH of about 6.8. I do not use RO.
I have 3 filters on the tank....two filstars, and one additional canister with an internal UV added, which is what gave me i think a near 100% hatch rate. I estimate about 250 babies that are now about 6 months old.
I found a pic i took a while back. The spawning cave is the whitish one on the left with a nice coat of green algae.
Andy

Well done!!!

Thanks a lot for the extensive information, this really helps me a lot!
Your tank setup looks amazing and how cool that they spawned in your self made cave

hello,
I would definitely like to buy a few of your l240’s if possible. Do you ship?