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Help! My albino ancistrus pleco laid eggs.

Posted: 04 Feb 2003, 03:07
by Vampire007
I was moving fish from my 90 to setup for Tropheus I will be getting
on Saturday. I noticed that one of the ancistrus was inside an upside
down flower pot and thought it would be easy to remove her by
scooping the whole pot up. As I did this and was bringing it up in
the water I thought I saw something that looked like eggs. I
released the female and looked at the pot in the water and saw there
was a clutch of orange eggs with a few white eggs. I put the pot
back the way it was and waited for the female to return. Well it has
been an hour and she won't go near it. What should I do? Should I
remove them and try incubating them with an airstone?
Can't believe this! I have been trying for 6 months to get them to breed and figures when I stopped trying they bred.
Go figure!

I guess when I moved them I didn't realize they were hatched

Posted: 04 Feb 2003, 03:41
by Vampire007
I removed the flower pot and found 8 ancistrus fry stuck to the side of the pot. So far it looks like 4 are alive and 4 either didn't hatch or are dead. The 4 keep swimming side to side sticking to the walls of the small tub I have them in.
Will they survive?

albino fry

Posted: 06 Feb 2003, 03:26
by oneoddfish
If you keep them in water from orignal tank with a sponge filter in the new tank they should be free swimming in another day or two parch some musterd green's or zuccinni the day after there free swimming about 4-6 day's old