I have 2 wild L134 plecos....2 caves in the tank (90 tall with a bunch of other fish) and I have not noticed 2 plecos together in either cave...always just one in each...but I have not been paying full attention to them all the time. I noticed today the one that looks like a male (smaller in girth) fanning...the side fins and his tail 1/2 way out the cave. I looked in the cave with a flashlight but didnt see anything that looked like eggs in it. For what reason would he be fanning if there are no eggs? These are older plecos I got from someone who had them for a while too.
L134 pleco breeding question...fanning but no eggs?
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Thats what I was kind of hoping...I want to breed them but only have what I think is one male and one female...I haven't had the time to "try" to breed them so if they just did it on there own that would be way cool. I did have 2 of my wild Rokteli severums in the same tank spawn on the top of one of the pleco caves (but then all the eggs were promptly sushi for some yoyo loaches in the tank) so maybe love is in the air...err I mean water.
More questions....if they do spawn and lay...will they be able to protect the eggs from the yoyo loachs you think? I would like to pull the momma and daddy out of the 90tall and put them in there own 20L to raise the fry...at what point would it be safe to move the daddy and eggs,wigglers,free swimmers?
More questions....if they do spawn and lay...will they be able to protect the eggs from the yoyo loachs you think? I would like to pull the momma and daddy out of the 90tall and put them in there own 20L to raise the fry...at what point would it be safe to move the daddy and eggs,wigglers,free swimmers?
I had read the article on PC...it doesn't really go into them fanning with no eggs....just fanning when there was eggs. I have not bread plecos before so I didnt know why they would fan with no eggs. I got time...would it be better to move them now or will that disrupt them? Also do plecos form a bond with the M and F like my cichlids do? I know I have seen breeding colonies with plecos...so if these guy do spawn is there a chance they wont do it again?
Hi nolagt,
sorry do disappoint you, but some plecos are just fanning to keep the water around them moving for more oxygen, so I think that might be the reason. I see my Ancistrus dolichopterus do that from time to time (no breeding possible, I only keep males).
sorry do disappoint you, but some plecos are just fanning to keep the water around them moving for more oxygen, so I think that might be the reason. I see my Ancistrus dolichopterus do that from time to time (no breeding possible, I only keep males).
Though now the turtles are closer to size...the fanning objects in question are still a huge difference in size...But no eggs for me..