What Bottom Dwellers Plec's & Catfish ? Do You Own !

[seanie112]

some new pics taken today of my fry longfins and adults longfins and common fry pics



common fry bns

female longfin albino x2

longfin fry couple wks old

more fry

 

[seanie112]

some new pics taken today 18.04.09 of my longfin fry bristlenose

pics of my common bns fry

 

[seanie112]

hi every one my longfin bristlenose have breed again 23 days (23.04.09)after the last spawn but the male has spawn with one of my new albino females that i have had now 2mths

ill up load some pics later not many eggs but this is the first time the albino longfin female has breed so shld be around 20-30 eggs

its normaly the large female that breeds with him

edit
added some pics of the eggs 23.04.09 for the above post

pic of the female albino that breed with male

this was taken this afternoon when she was fat with eggs

 

[seanie112]

hi again everyone my longfins breed again last night he has two lots of eggs now the main female in the tank breed with him as normal around 50 to 100 or more eggs cant really see as the eggs are on the bottom of the cave and he is over them

sorted

 

[seanie112]

pics of the eggs in the cave with longfin male theres two lots of eggs ie two females have breed with male

 

[pippoodle]

I think i own (adult numbers only fry not included)

CORYS

3 Pandas
6 peppered
3 trilineatus
4 sterbai
4 black
4 venezuelanus
3 cw021
1 delphax
13 bronze
4 albino
15 pygmaeus
1 hasbrosus + (6 on order being delivered thursday)

Plecs

4 bn plecs
2 pitbull plecs

FORGOT the glass cats

to add to the list i have

now 6 hasbrosus
4 reticulated corys
6 skunk corys
4 albino bn plecs
+5 more pygmy corys

and corydora Robinae on order

 

[fuzzynicki]

hi there! I'm new to this forum and extremely impressed with the plecos in this post! Some amazing photos there.

I recently lost my inherited 12" Sailfin pleco. I'd had her for 7 yrs and was gutted to lose her. With a build up of algae in the aquarium I wanted to try something a little smaller than the sailfin. I was advised to go for Clown plecos. Not having much luck with these eating the algae,- and have now read that they're not great algae eaters! Apparantly I should have gone for bristlenoses!

Currently:

4 x Clown Plecos (3 look the same and the 4th is a different colouring. Don't know enough about them to
to know what's what I'm afraid)

1 x Port Hoplo

1 x Flag tail catfish

Now I am looking to get 2 x bristlenoses. I am really keen on getting the long fin variety after seeing Seanie's fantastic looking ones!


EDITED TO ADD: I have located some long fin bristlenoses within driving distance of me and so am off to select a couple on Thursday eve. The breeders have loads of them, ranging in size, so I should come away a very happy customer!

 

[seanie112]

hi couple pics of my longfins bristlenose eggs hatching eating there egg sac

 

[seanie112]

forgot to add

this is just one lot of eggs laid by a first timer female

the other lot was only 35 eggs laid

my another first timer the main female who normaly breeds with male not breed this time but she fat bigger then normal so when so breeds again ill have more eggs she normaly lay 100 -150 eggs

 

[seanie112]

i am thinking abt selling 2 of the 5x trios i have my trio's breeding bristlenose

to make way for new breeding project if so these will be going on ebay starting price 99p and will post

 

[Chewie27]

At what age can you tell if the fry is albino? i mine are a week free swimming now and most are fairly dark, both parents are commons but i have 6 or 7 that are fairly light in colour. Are these likely to be albinos?

 

[seanie112]

from the start really as when they start eat the egg sack u will see some are white ish in color and the other ones are darker that means the white ones are albino

as u can see in pic below

cant really see in this pic but u have got a idea lighter ones are albino
u can see there egg sack

 

[AdAndrews]

brought my first tropical plec yesterday, a juvi bn plec, about .8 inch, he is lovely, black with nice white spots all over- hasnt got any bristles though, do they come with age?

 

[mixmaster jay]

ive just bought yesterday a 14"marbled clarias catfish

 

[seanie112]

2in or 6mths old shld be able tell if male or female

nice 14"marbled clarias catfish grows to big for my liken lol really nice tho great pics nice and fat