L046 pleco setup
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Nice, how much and size are u guys paying? Heres my growout tank
I’m aiming for a group of 6-7 and using a 20g long. I’ll grow the fry out in a 10 and 30g tank
that’s a very nice setup.Just zebras? How many and how big
Yeah zebra tank, i got a big group of them I'd say theyre almost 2 ". Got them at 1-1.25" last year. And some cherry shrimps as a cleanup crew.
My zebras are still young so I have no idea. Maybe someone can chime in and answer that for U. But the shrimps never goes in the caves. They are great cleanup crews tho.
Well the new guys seem to be doing good within the first 48 hours home.
They were being fed blood worms and another frozen food. Never fed pellets.
This little guy came out for a snack
They were being fed blood worms and another frozen food. Never fed pellets.
This little guy came out for a snack
These guys are settling in well. They are not quite as shy as I was lead to believe. 
My experience has been that TR zebras are a bit less skittish and will come out more. I have always kept mine in a species tank not even with shrimp. But that is me. Plenty of people keep them with other fish and/or shrimp.
It would drive you crazy if you knew what I paid for my recent purchase of twenty-five zebras at about 2 inches TL. There is a family in Indonesia that runs a top notch breeding operation which includes a lot of the rare Hypancistrus. My spawning group is long in the tooth, some are approaching 20 years. My plan was to keep 15 of the new ones which arrived in early March and to sell 10. Somehow I still have all 25
If you can buy a big enough order, they can be had fairly cheaply these days and they come in very healthy. My partner in the venture sells tropical fish for a living. He sells a bunch of what I breed. I put up the financing and he did the rest. We brought in 326 zebras. That got us the best possible price on the two sizes we chose.
I have them parked in a 45 long (it's a short 55 gal. basically). I figure they could spawn next summer give or take a few months.
I have been working mostly with L236 and L173 (see below) in the more recent past.
It would drive you crazy if you knew what I paid for my recent purchase of twenty-five zebras at about 2 inches TL. There is a family in Indonesia that runs a top notch breeding operation which includes a lot of the rare Hypancistrus. My spawning group is long in the tooth, some are approaching 20 years. My plan was to keep 15 of the new ones which arrived in early March and to sell 10. Somehow I still have all 25
If you can buy a big enough order, they can be had fairly cheaply these days and they come in very healthy. My partner in the venture sells tropical fish for a living. He sells a bunch of what I breed. I put up the financing and he did the rest. We brought in 326 zebras. That got us the best possible price on the two sizes we chose.
I have them parked in a 45 long (it's a short 55 gal. basically). I figure they could spawn next summer give or take a few months.
I have been working mostly with L236 and L173 (see below) in the more recent past.
