Pleco eggs? I hope so!

aximiliguru · Post by **aximiliguru** » 30 Nov 2004, 16:54

Could someone please post some pics of common pleco eggs? I think mine have finally bred, but I'm not sure. I have a pair but I don't know if it was them or the cories.

Thanx, Aximiliguru.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 30 Nov 2004, 17:03

aximiliguru wrote:Could someone please post some pics of common pl*co eggs? I think mine have finally bred, but I'm not sure. I have a pair but I don't know if it was them or the cories.

Thanx, Aximiliguru.

That would be a world first, probably...

Where are your supposed pleco eggs? If they are attached to a plant or some such, they are almost certainly cories. If they are in a cave or hole in the mud at the bottom of the pond, you're looking more likely to be pleco eggs.

Most pleco's would have yellow/orange eggs. I think most cory eggs are clear/white.

That's my thoughts, others may have different ideas.

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Mats

aximiliguru · Post by **aximiliguru** » 30 Nov 2004, 18:09

actually, they are attached to a big piece of driftwood, but they are a light tan color and are about a piece of rice size. They are not that big, but I can't figure out who did it. They have a lightish white fim holding them together, like a bag they're in.

aximiliguru · Post by **aximiliguru** » 30 Nov 2004, 18:14

oh, by the way, they're actualy about HALF a grain of rice size. Also, my plecos aren't as light colored as common ones- I think they are ancistrus just labeled wrong.

Post by **Shane** » 30 Nov 2004, 19:49

Here you go.

-Shane

troi · Post by **troi** » 30 Nov 2004, 20:45

Shane wrote:Here you go.
-Shane

That's a big bunch o' eggs. Is that a boat we're looking at, to give some sense of scale? Do you know if the eggs were stipped from a fish or if a captive fish dumped them there? Or, How the heck did those eggs get on that hunk of wood?!

troi

Post by **Shane** » 01 Dec 2004, 00:00

That is a seat in a canoe. Eggs are gathered by reaching into spawning burrows and pulling them out. Quite a delicacy.
The saddest thing is the small strange pim cat on the floor of the canoe that I did not notice until I looked at the photo closely later.
-Shane

kyle · Post by **kyle** » 01 Dec 2004, 06:50

there is actually a lady in austrailia that breeds common plecs but she does it in a pond i think she was the first in the world im not sure but i know for a fact she bredds them

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 01 Dec 2004, 10:37

aximiliguru wrote:oh, by the way, they're actualy about HALF a grain of rice size. Also, my pl*cos aren't as light colored as common ones- I think they are ancistrus just labeled wrong.

If they are ancistrus, the male should have bristles on the front of the head. If you don't have a male ancistrus, you wouldn't get any babies.

Also, ancistrus male will guard the eggs, which would be more orange than yellow.

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Mats

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