L-46 Zebra Pleco eggs?

[dr exum]

Thanks! Finally a sign that strongly suggests that I have a female. I was resigned to the fact that I thought I had somehow been lucky enough to purchase 9 males over the years

Of course, I just put in an order to get three more youngsters as a Christmas gift to myself (didn't want to tell the wife that I spent so much on fish)... and this happens .

I often wonder if my wife gets on here and reads....

So great! Good luck with the eggs!

 

[YankeeJack]

Thanks all! Ya, checked the caves, no one seems to be on eggs. Wish I had some MB on hand ... been a looong time since I used that. Appreciate the recommendations. I'll run out to PetCo to see if they might have some in stock.

 

[tlindsey]

Thanks all! Ya, checked the caves, no one seems to be on eggs. Wish I had some MB on hand ... been a looong time since I used that. Appreciate the recommendations. I'll run out to PetCo to see if they might have some in stock.

Try Aquabid. I bidded on MB powder a few yrs ago. Powder form will last longer than the liquid form.

 

[YankeeJack]

Thanks! I’ll get some powder for future use. Appreciate the advice.

The eggs are fully fungused.

Hoping it won’t be three years til the next excitement ?

 

[BigShawn]

Congrats, keep an eye on them should spawn again so....

 

[YankeeJack]

8 months later, finally it looks like a male has a female trapped. Hope this one works out!!

 

[phreeflow]

Looking good! Keep us posted. Odd to see them breeding in summer. Mine mostly breed sometime between September to February then take a break. What part of the country are you in and do you use tap or RO?

 

[YankeeJack]

Thanks Phreeflow. I'm in California. Tap water.

 

[phreeflow]

Thanks Phreeflow. I'm in California. Tap water.

Can’t believe they bred in this heatwave. Congrats

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Many Hypan, including zebras can take pretty warm water. In breeding zebras if one has to simulate a dry/rainy seasonal trigger, the dry season phase should end with the water temp at 90F or a dg. or two higher. I had a tanks with discus, rummynose tetras and 5 l450 Hypancistrus. A heater malfunction raise the water temp. to 105 or 105. The Rummy nose were balls of mush in the floating plants which also had one dead dicsus floating in the plants as well. the other discus was stuck to a filter intake. All the L450s were alive. They spawned for the first time several weeks later.

Perhaps the biggest key to helping zebras spawn is diet. Best is live. Next best would be Rapashy Spawn & Grow and Bottom Scratcher. Also get some Soilent green and mix it 20% with 80% of one of the other two. This gives you meat and veggies together and zebra fry need more veggie natter than they will later in life. New free swimmers can eat Repashy easily. Frozen is also excellent, but fry/youngsters can choke trying to eat food too large, always include something like BBS or cyclops when kids are in a breeder tank.

Zebras are not too fussy re parameters. What triggers them is change. One keeper who has 200 ppm TDS water might drop that to 100 when simulating the onset of the rainy season. Another keeper with 100 ppm TDS would drop that to 50 as the trigger. When I did dry/rainy simulatiosn my tap was 83 ppm and lower if we had big rains. So what I did was to gaeden my water and raise the temp and then use my tap to onset the rainy season. No RO needed this way. My RO/DI unit is for my Atums.