jayjay
The BE-Team Fighting For Betta Extermination
Just ask your LFS if they will take it, if they say yes, take it to them, try exchange for a BN or 2.
Breeding Plecos
- Thread starter tetraman
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tetraman
Fishaholic
BN? I think I'll hold on to him untill he outgrows the tank. Yall check out my new pics topic. It has my plec and corys in it.
§tudz
A True Oddball
I doubt you'll be able to rehome a fully grown common plec, so I would suggest you get rid of it now
dwarfgourami
Fish Connoisseur
Long before he looks like he has outgrown the tank, he will already have been producing far too much waste for the other fish to be happy. This is one reason why plecs need big tanks, they also need heavy filtration.
tetraman
Fishaholic
I know all that. I'm going to save up money for a candy striped pleco, and then I'm going to sell my common pleco back.
LisaLQ
Fish Gatherer
Sell it back to who? You'll be lucky to get a LFS to pay you for a common, I doubt you'd even get credit for it, I know mine wouldn't.
pinkdolphin_113
Sinclair Aquatic Systems
why not? if you give them a fish, they'll sell it. credit should be the right way to go. i have a full tab at my lfs lol i gave him my plecostomus at 5-6 inches and i got credit
tetraman
Fishaholic
Yeah, I've found that out. I bet if someone really wanted to the could.
§tudz
A True Oddball
you would require a HUGE tank, with a lot of mud in the bottom, also the side would need to be covered in mud, deep enough for a 2' fish the dig a burrow into. so your talking about least 3-4' of mud... thats without swimming space, its just implausable, but not impossible.
tetraman
Fishaholic
Yeah, but maybe you could breed them when they're small. I would also have a heavy duty sump pump going with the input on one side of the tank and the output on the other to create the very stong current loved by plecos. I would also feed them only live bloodworms and whiteworms, along with fresh spirula algae. I'm full of ideas.
smithrc
My names Russell.... ....and I'm a
ideas... but your still not listening...
size = maturity = sexually mature = breeding...
tetraman
Fishaholic
5 month old guppy = 1 inch
1 inch guppy = sexually mature
1 inch guppy = sexually mature
dwarfgourami
Fish Connoisseur
One of the later Baensch volumes has a suggestion for breeding common plecs- it involves a 1500+ ltr tank and a mudwall. The words more-trouble-than-it's-worth seem to spring to mind. If I were going in for this sort of thing, I would get me a collection of the smaller- and more sought-after - loricariids and breed them.
The fact that common plecs do not breed in hobbyist tanks, despite being extremely common, does rather seem to suggest that they aren't going to do this until they are mature and conditions are right. And if they could be tricked into breeding prematurely- is there any reason for believing that this would be particularly good either for them or for the offspring?
§tudz
A True Oddball
That is not a comparision at all, the closest these two animals are to each other is that they are fish...
Guppy: max length = 2.5"
Common Plec: Max Length = 2' (taking into account gibbies in this common name)
You are new to breeding and if you dont want to breed live bearers then why not try something like Danios, or if you want to breed catfish go with Cories.
These fish are reasonably easy to breed with a little work.
Then look at breeding something more exotic like plecs after you are raising danios or cory fry succesfully.
But if your adiment on breeding plecs, go with Bristlenoses basically, you need caves, and a male and a female, then add water and good food.
I've never bred them myself, and many people have on here, so ask about them not something so unplausable as common plecs. B)
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