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I've got other fish in the tank(3 other bristlenose besides the pair) and 4 wild scalare angels...should I leave the other inhabitants in the tank or attempt to remove them???
any advice appreciated...david

moved eggs and male to seperate tank...
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make sure you get those infertile eggs out of there. The best way that I have heard of is using a glass pipette to suck the insides out, although that was used for zebra eggs. That's really neat. Congratulations!

Congratuations!!!

SO Much Eggs and wish they could survive.

thanks for the kind words der Ingo and Marshel....
The eggs look good today, and the male is still looking after them..I counted the eggs in the picture by placing red dots on them in Photoshop...look's like over 200 of them
david

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Eggs are still good at Day 3(i think it's day 3) this evening a couple stray eggs in the tank have started to wiggle a little and I can see eyes...hoping to see some tails sometime tomorrow..
The male removed the white eggs from the main clutch...
david

that is awsome... congrats on the spawn... i hope u can get many.. many little wigglers.. and by the number of eggs u have there i am sure u will have no shortage of wigglers...

Very nice!

You got a pic of the parents?

thanks
the female:
http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59 ... malebn.jpg
the male:
http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59 ... malebn.jpg

david

Look's like almost all the eggs have hatched...the male keeps colecting up egg(shells?) and spitting it out the door...I think I might plant some zuchini this year
david
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congrats on the little ones.. looks like u have quite the herd of baby bn now

thanks M...so far-so good
david

Dave,

You said that there were 3 other bristle nose in the tank ! Any of them females ? The reason I ask is that I have been breeding bristle nose for more than 30 years (currently have over 50 breeding females) and I have never seen that many eggs from just the one female. Secondly, there would appear to be two distinct clutches of eggs, which suggests to me that more than one female was involved in that spawn.

Multiple matings with the one male are not uncommon. The maximum I have witnessed is 7 females spawn with the one male over two days.

Alan

hey Alan,
I went back and looked at the pictures of the eggs, and I think I see what you mean as far as "two distinct clutches of eggs"..
There was two other females in the tank...one of them look's too small to be mature, but the other one did look like she was becoming gravid...
It DID seem like alot of eggs for the one female(like her whole body mass!!) but she was SOOO gravid..Thanks for posting-I never would've thought of that(this is my first spawn from plecos)..
regards, David

Hi David,

Just that I had 4 females spawn with the one male this morning and more females tring to get in the cave still. What a bun fight!!!

You would be surprised how small bristles spawn at. Precosious little devils

Alan

Congrats David! thats a very nive spawn

just an update on that male bristle nose who spawned with 4 females on friday. Now Sunday morning and he still has a couple of girls trying to get into the cave. He now has 6 clusters of eggs in his hide out and one cluster that got kicked out in the rough and tumble that is in a hatching tank.

I wonder how many more girls are going to get into the act

Alan

fry have absorbed their yolk sacs and have turned brown...
http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59 ... bnfry2.jpg
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david

Hey David
Congrats !!!!
From what I have heard lately , the prices of bn plecs are way high in Winnipeg . I bet you will be able to sell them really quickly . Give people a decent price and create your own market . maybe that will help others come to love the bns as much as we do , while stopping others from being greedy and charging so much .
Dag

Hey David
Congrats !!!!
From what I have heard lately , the prices of bn plecs are way high in Winnipeg . I bet you will be able to sell them really quickly . Give people a decent price and create your own market . maybe that will help others come to love the bns as much as we do , while stopping others from being greedy and charging so much .
Dag

dag wrote:From what I have heard lately , the prices of bn plecs are way high in Winnipeg Dag

Way high?? you're lucky if you can find them at all!! With any luck, that's about to change-david


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Hope you have plenty of zuchinis planted Dave or a big pumpkin patch !

By the way, that Lothario ended up spawning with nine females. This is his fith season and he is due for retirement so may be cramming for his finals.

Alan

Alan,
I bought 8 zuchini the other day...cut them up, microwaved them really well to soften them up, and froze them...btwn those and spirulina/algae disks, and BBS, I should be good for a while...
I'm contemplating planting some zuchini just for the hell of it though...
david

Fry are doing well...I've only seen two dead, I culled two with crooked tails, and sucked one up in the waterchange hose by accident...Still looks like well over two hundred fry!! they're growing fast-i've been changing the water in their tank twice a day, and will probably move them all to a larger tank after the weekend...here are some pictures taken today...david

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