L200

[Albury]

I have had a trio of L200s for a while now but have had not much progress. Could anyone tell me if they have breed them and if so how they went about it? I have them in a 3x20x20 tank pH 6.4-6.7 plenty of driftwood and different size caves. Normally waterchange once a week, the filter is a 30x18x18 sump.
I have tried allowing the water to evaporate down and then dumping fesh rainwater in. I have placed 2000L/h power head infront of the main cave I have also taken all current out but nothing seems to do a thing.
I have been feeding them on HBH algae wafers along with Sera catfish chips and they are looking quite fat. The male has been infront of the tube for 6 months at least now but with no results.
Any ideas?

 

[Khaifish]

here's some links of the 2 known spawnings of l200

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=29586&hilit=l200

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21699&hilit=l200

In both cases they spawned in a large tank, so i thinnk you should get a bigger tank for them. Then after that there's not much else you can do, but wait. They are a very difficult fish to spawn good luck

 

[Irene0100]

they have been bred, but not easily, there are some articles or thread on the web i have seen. you do not say what type of L200 you have (eg hi-fin or other).

 

[Bigjohnnofish]

what size are your fish??? are they even mature enough to procriate???

 

[Lornek8]

What species are your L200?
I don't think in the spawing records previously mentioned were there are report of which species was spawned. As L128 has also been bred, its my feeling that the Heminascisrus L200 was the one that has been bred. There are few reported spawning of Baryancistrus so the L200 Bary might be a bit harder to spawn.

 

[water changer]

hey lornek8 are you talking about hi fin L200 demiancistrus not baryancistrus or has it been re classified or am i thinking of a totally other pl#c reason bing is i have two L200 hemis and 1 hi fin demi and was going to ask if anyone thought they might cross breed when i came across this thread (apologies if i have hijacked this thread in any way

What species are your L200?
I don't think in the spawing records previously mentioned were there are report of which species was spawned. As L128 has also been bred, its my feeling that the Heminascisrus L200 was the one that has been bred. There are few reported spawning of Baryancistrus so the L200 Bary might be a bit harder to spawn.

 

[Lornek8]

hey lornek8 are you talking about hi fin L200 demiancistrus not baryancistrus or has it been re classified or am i thinking of a totally other pl#c reason bing is i have two L200 hemis and 1 hi fin demi and was going to ask if anyone thought they might cross breed when i came across this thread (apologies if i have hijacked this thread in any way

The two species of L200 are Baryancistrus demantoides & Hemiancistrus subviridis.

They should not be able to cross breed as they are from different families.