My mating adult Bristlenose plecos / Antennenwelse (Ancistrus) [3/3]

[MrSmellyProductions]

looks like a brilliant tank you got there :) and Congrats!

[22Aquariums]

hello

i need help i have put 1 male and 3 females in a seperate tank from my main tank then havent paired up yet is there anyway that i can help them pai up and if not how long will it take befor they pair up and breed ?

thanks

[dashinbg]

hey once again congrats 

[bassam2168]

hello my male bristle nose his got a red belly what does that means help me?!!!!

[rhemity]

maybe but usally not as they dont come out until there of a decent size nothing gaint of course like 1 cm in size nice plecos view mine and leave a comment :)

[jetmea]

well i bout a breeding pair of albinos. ive fattend them up and moved them to the 10 gallon. now its a matter of time befor they have fry. but will my small canister filter suck up the fry?

[n03lzz]

@jetmea

The fry leave their cave not before they are about 1cm long. As you can see in my other video: "The raising of my bristlenose fry / Antennenwelsbabys [4/4] " or /watch?v=twh8TzoykZc . If you want to make sure that they cannot get sucked in you can put a nylon stockings of the inlet.

I had two 54 liter (14 us gallon) tanks, with a pair of bristlenose each. One pair breed once a month the other pair never did it.^^

[thehamsterlove1]

@n03lzz my common pleco mated with my golden pleco is that ok

[BIGPOND400]

my bristle nosses did this a couple days ago, do they lay eggs during this or after this

[n03lzz]

@BIGPOND400

Yes, they lay eggs during it, if everything "worked". ;)

[BIGPOND400]

@n03lzz oh sweet well now i wait and see if a get bristle nose baby's XD

[n03lzz]

@BIGPOND400

If the male stays in the cave and keeps on fanning fresh water into it, you have a very good chance for bristlenose fry.

[BIGPOND400]

@n03lzz thanks :)

[jetmea]

how do u take the eggs from the cave..?

[n03lzz]

@jetmea

You can move such caves very good to a new tank. You need a flat glass dish. Then you sink it in the tank. Then you can move the whole cave with the father and his eggs into it. Now you take out the dish which is now filled with water and move it to a new tank. So the cave never reach the watersurface. Important: The eggs need their father which is hatching them.

[pr10r1ty]

did u get any fry?

[n03lzz]

Yes, i have a breeding tank full of fry. The oldest ones are from 26.5.09 .

Some of them are albinos although both parents aren't albino.

I'm working on a video that shows them from egg to juvenile.

[thegottibrown]

Have you experienced the Clown Loaches eating your BN eggs or fry?

[n03lzz]

I raise the fry in a breeding tank, so i cannot tell you that. My Clowns have no way of eating them.

[pr10r1ty]

oh cool ill be waiting for it ;)

[gbanner1]

that is so rare for pleco's to mate wow thats pretty cool!

[n03lzz]

Thank you and stay tuned for my upcoming video of raising the fry.

[thegottibrown]

Rare for Plecos, not uncommon at all for Bristlenose. If I can breed them anyone can!

[AuraLusitano]

hehe,da haben wohl die beiden ne passende Höhle gefunden....wir haben auch oft reichlich Antennenwelsnachwuchs....langs­am wirds zu viel...lg

[n03lzz]

Danke für den netten Kommentar.

Ich habe gerade ein weiteres Video in der Mache, dass die jungen Ancistrus vom Ei bis zum zwei Monate alten Tier zeigt.

Mich würde ein Video deines Beckens interessieren!

Gruß

Nils

[zodiac2nd]

do you use gravel cleaners? if so, how do you get between all the plants? I'm curious because I'm planning on a 90 gallon, and I want to have it heavily planted like yours.

Also, how much water change do you do? 30%?, 50%?

very cool tank btw

[n03lzz]

I've sand in my tank and red-rimmed melania snails to break it up. The advantage of this combination is, that mud cannot soak in, like it does with gravel. So i don't need a gravel cleaner. The snails prevent the sand of decaying.

I change 60-70% once a month. I can do it this way cause we've perfect tapwater in our town.

[Joanator80]

how big do they grow? cause they seem perfect for my tank. as my red tail thinks she owns the whole tank. so i need something a bit bigger to boss her around a bit.

[n03lzz]

They grow up to 14-15cm (5.5 - 6 inch). But you plan will not work. You cannot change the behaviour of a fish this way.

[Joanator80]

Hi n03lzz,

have u any idea of a smaller pleco that does all these things? because my tank isn't very big. and a need a fish that will clean some of my ornaments.

Joanator80, fellow tank keeper.

[n03lzz]

Hi,

there are smaller plecos, but they have challenging requirements, and some of them are very expensive. I also would not to recommend to buy fish cause of a algae problem. No fish is very effective in it... It's more like a nice byeffect.

A small catfish that also eats algae is the Otocinclus, they are also very nice, I keep them, too.

A great secret weapon against algae are great ramshorn snails (only this species). But some fish snap at them.

[pondguru]

Further to n03lzz comments on snails, make sure you go for the pond ramshorn (Planorbis corneus) and not the tropical striped variety as they will demolish the plants.Also beware of great pond snail (Lymneae stagnalis) as they will also eat plants and bred like flies. Tropical Nerite species are good also and are often quite colourful. Avoid loaches and puffers if you want snails to survive. Too many snails? get an Assassin snail or two as they eat other snails. Hope this helps.

[n03lzz]

Yes, I agree to everything

[pauloninja85]

hi no3lzz, i would like to know if those plecos are the only ones or the easy ones to pair in an aquarium and if they are,did that helped you choose bristlenose instead of other pleco?thanks for the video,it´s the first time i see plecos mating :)

[n03lzz]

They are not the only ones that pair in fish tanks. There are several people that breed those L-number plecos/ catfish.

To my knowledge the bristlenose have requirements that are the easiest to accomplish, so they are the easiest to breed. But i dont keep them cause of that. I keep them cause:

they were one of my first fish 20 years ago,

they don't grow that big,

they are very good cleaner,

i love their look and behavior.

Thats also why I accept them in my pure Southeast Asia tank.^^

[Joanator80]

what fish snap at these snails? if u know that is.

thanks.

[n03lzz]

In my case I had problems in the combination with my blue acaras, and i know that clownloaches and pufferfish eat snails. But otherwise I think it also depends on the "character" of each fish and the size of the snail. E.g.: No problems with small tenches and big ramshorn or pond snails.

[Joanator80]

thanks pondguru! that really helped. but are the pond ramshorn snails only or ponds? cause, would they go in my tropical tank?

also how big are they? my tank is only about 23 gallons.

[n03lzz]

Questions ans Answers got mixed up a little bit.^^

I got the pond ramshorn in my tropical tanks with temperatures of 25+ °C and they are doing fine. They reach a diameter of 4 cm.

[Joanator80]

ok. thanks.

[Cheqraise]

Cool vid. I've just put an adult female with my male in a 120 ltr tank.  They've not paired yet. Have heard a weeks starvation and a drop in temp will help them to spawn. What do you think?

[n03lzz]

Water changes with colder water help them cause that simulate the rainy season, but exercise caution and don't use too cold water. The best caves are those clay tubes, with a size that the male just fit in, and with one ending closed. I can agree with that totally.

I've read that it can take about half a year till they acclimatize themselves to a new tank, but then they wil mate often. Another way is to mate them in their "home tank" and move only the male with its cave and eggs to the new tank.