Blue eye pleco breeding?

[COL]

Poor man's blue eyes? Naw--they go for at least 800 a pop these days.

You're thinking of hypostomus cochliodon, which are completely different fish.

 

[knobhill]

duh! Your are totally right! H. Chchliodon are the poor man's bep. The two panaques mentioned earlier...aren't they one in the same?

 

[TheFanatic]

Back in the day Ginny Eckstein was my mentor/adopted mom....she had two blue eyes (male and female). She kept them grid divided as they are quite intolerant of one another. One day she removed the divider and all seemed to be going very well. She went out for a bit and upon her arrival home the male had basically descaled (if they had scales) the female. She was dead hours later. Before disposing of the body she sliced open the female to find her with many eggs. This is the closest thing that I have heard of.

Back in the mid 80's I managed a wholesale tropical fish operation in the Northeast. We would get blue eyes in every week. Not just blue eyes....but nice blue eyes with caudal extensions....not to the level of an adonis, but some a couple of inches long. The extensions would take on a light yellowish color to them.

Of late I've become kind of obsessed with this fish. Earlier this week I came across a post on another site of someone outside of the US who was expecting 7-8 pieces soon. They're coming from somewhere....and I don't think it's grow outs from breeding! My guess and hope is that we have not seen the last of them, although we could be waiting for quite some time.

I remember her talking about this in an article she wrote for Aquarium Fish Magazine. I loved her articles. She was the best writer on the staff. What is she doing now?

 

[Festae Forever]

I am embarassed to say that I don't know. She used to call me her adopted son. I spent more time sleeping on her and Charlie's couch then my own bed. Distance and time often seperate people. I do know that she is out of fish. For awhile she became enamoured with Beanie Babies and then later closer to what you'd would think, succulent plants. Of course she basically came to know everything she could about both. A strong women with high intelligence and a great heart.

 

[zenyfish]

I've never heard it being done in an aquarium.

This is hearsay, but I have heard someone in a forum post say they had blue eyes breed in a Florida pond way back when they weren't rare; much like common plecos are bred now. Not sure if they need tunnels in mud banks like common plecos?

 

[taksan]

. Does anyone know for certain where these new cochliodon are arriving from?

Columbia .... so its possible either way ....