Hi everyone, wanted to share my latest success.
So i got my first pair of adult LF albino BN's sometime ago and although laying eggs once they have never laid again. I decided to get a second common pair of BN's (sub-adult) and try with these in a separate tank, not much happened and due to a few moves they ended up in the same tank as the LF pair.
I basically forgot about them and just let them get on with it. I had a period this weekend where i ended up changing a lot of the water and adding quite a lot of fresh cool water to the tank. I must have done something right as within hours the XL bronze cory's i had in there went crazy and laid eggs for the first time. There were hundreds of them stuck all over the tank! This got me thinking about the BN's and wondered if they had enjoyed the fresh water.
I couldn't find them for sometime but eventually found the common male BN huddled up in a slate cave fanning like crazy. Not wanting to get the torch in there and disturb him too much i left him too it. He fanned and fanned for days and i kept getting more excited thinking he was guarding some eggs.
Just had the torch in there (couldn't resist) and can see a few finger nail sized black replicas of dad. Can't wait for them to be free in the tank.
These are the first plecs i have bred and although probably mundane to most of you guys it's quite exciting. Hopefully the first step to a successful plec breeder.
Any suggestions on first foods or when i might expect them to be out and about in the tank?
Sam
So i got my first pair of adult LF albino BN's sometime ago and although laying eggs once they have never laid again. I decided to get a second common pair of BN's (sub-adult) and try with these in a separate tank, not much happened and due to a few moves they ended up in the same tank as the LF pair.
I basically forgot about them and just let them get on with it. I had a period this weekend where i ended up changing a lot of the water and adding quite a lot of fresh cool water to the tank. I must have done something right as within hours the XL bronze cory's i had in there went crazy and laid eggs for the first time. There were hundreds of them stuck all over the tank! This got me thinking about the BN's and wondered if they had enjoyed the fresh water.
I couldn't find them for sometime but eventually found the common male BN huddled up in a slate cave fanning like crazy. Not wanting to get the torch in there and disturb him too much i left him too it. He fanned and fanned for days and i kept getting more excited thinking he was guarding some eggs.
Just had the torch in there (couldn't resist) and can see a few finger nail sized black replicas of dad. Can't wait for them to be free in the tank.
These are the first plecs i have bred and although probably mundane to most of you guys it's quite exciting. Hopefully the first step to a successful plec breeder.
Any suggestions on first foods or when i might expect them to be out and about in the tank?
Sam
