L338 Ancistrus spawning

[Gem400]

My L338 Ancistrus have spawned for the first time :woohoo:

The eggs were kicked out but are doing well and is a large spawn.

These are some pics of the deleloping eggs with the first fry to hatch out

Cheers
Gem

 

[Jimmy]

Congratulations and

 

[222Cam222]

Wow that's alot of eggs:clap:

 

[bigbird]

wow congrats and well done. cant wait for them when they are swimming. cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[jimmywr]

:clap::thumbup:

 

[mr benga]

l338

well done gem i have wild pair but cant get them to breed what sort of setup are they in,kev.

 

[Joby]

Congratulations, thats a lovley big spawn :clap:

 

[Gem400]

Unfortunately there was a good few losses at the last minute :cry: an egg fungussed right in the centre of the cluster and did some damage as it couldn't be safely removed but we still have at least 100 little bubs :woohoo:

Kev, this is a pic of the set up, temp is 28 degrees, ph 7.2, not sure on hardness. It has a large air driven sponge filter and a powerhead driven sponge filter so there is a good flow. They share the tank with some 'Rio Ucayali' ancistrus which also spawned a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't expecting them to spawn just yet.

Newly hatched wrigglers

Pic from underneith

Cheers
Gem

 

[Stan]

Wow! even with the losses that's a lot of babies!:clap:

 

[mr benga]

l338

thanks gem for info just hope get mine to breed do you just have the pair,good pics aswell,kev.:thumbup:

 

[Gem400]

I have 2 males and 1 female. I bought the male that spawned Feb 2010, the lfs didn't have an ID and it wasn't quite sexable.
It's taken a good while to get hold of the other 2 and wasn't 100% sure on their sexes at the time either as my female has bristles on the edge of the snout and the male only had small bristles on the edge too.

 

[Hypanaddict]

Congrats on the spawning Gem,that is one big spawning :thumbup:

 

[Gem400]

What a difference a week makes

 

[Joby]

They are looking really good :clap:

 

[Stan]

Very nice looking babies, growing well!!:clap::thumbup:

 

[jimmywr]

nice:clap:

 

[Irene0100]

tremendous, well done.

 

[mr benga]

l338 wild pair.

l338 spawned about time tryed alsorts then left them alone and done the deed about 100 young.

 

[jumon]

do you think that removing the eggs from the male will, remove from the fish the ability to take care of the eggs? i mean the natural instinct?

I'm always uncomfortable when i remove the eggs from the male, is it without any repercussion?

 

[Brengun]

Great photos. Congraties...again!