I have 3 male busy nose plecos and wanted to know how to breed them for future plans and male to female ratio
tips for breeding bristlenose plecos
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I don't know that there's an ideal ratio. I'd say 1 male to 2-3 females might be best, but in your case I'd just get 3-4 females.
Just give them a tank with heaps of caves and cover and wait, they're not much harder to breed than guppies in my experience so you can only sell the fry for a couple dollars in my experience.
im not looking to sell many I have friends tht want them and ill keep a few whats there vreeding size the males I have are around 2-3inch
Maybe around 3-4" a year or two old.
I lost count of how many I sold around 400. Not long after I moved them all to another tank so their fry would be eaten if they tried breeding.
Not particularly, there were just so many of them. I had 3 tanks from 100-200 L at one point full of them.
thts cool how long did it take for the fry to hatch I and females just dont have as many bristles correct
A week or so.
Females are much smaller and have no bristles or sometimes a few tiny ones. They're also a bit more square bodied vs the males triangular body.