Hello peoples,
I am new to L pleco's, I have only kept bristle nose in the past in all my tanks, and just recently bred some Albino bristle nose after picking up a nice male from BigJohn. I now want to journey into the pleco hobby and try to breed L201's, L397's and possibly L007's. These are the pleco's I really like the patterns and colours.
I will be building everything from scratch to make sure I have the best possible environment for them and the easiest maintenance for me. So this first post is just some idea's I had on the setup and hopefully get back some suggestions from you guys before I start the building process.
So the idea is that I will have 2 to 4 breeding tanks and then a large grow out tank, I am considering the hamburg matten filter for each tank with a central air pump system to feed the turbo uplifts, possibly a small internal 800lph filter to increase the current if needed, but the turbo uplifts do provide a very good flow rate. I guess my tank sizes is what I am more concerned about as I was thinking that the height of the tank shouldn't play to big a role from bottom dwelling pleco's, So I would like to go with breeding tanks size of 2ftx2ftx1ft which I believe should be enough surface area for a breeding pair or trio, I don't want any more than a trio, Then the bottom tank will be a grow out tank of 4ftx2ftx1.5ft, just a little more height for more water volume for the grow outs, so the breeding tanks would be 108 litres each and the growout tank would be about 325 litres. so the breeding rack it self will be 3 tiers with the grow out on the bottom. What do you guys think about this type of setup and Filtration? will a 1ft high tank be enough? I wanted to keep the height down so it could be a manageable 3 tier rack. Each tank will be drilled half way down drain and fill for water changes by adding L shape pvc into the bulkhead inside the tank so it swivels, and a garden hose fitting on the outside bulkhead to connect a hose for drain and fill
All suggestions are welcome and tips on breeding these L's would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I am new to L pleco's, I have only kept bristle nose in the past in all my tanks, and just recently bred some Albino bristle nose after picking up a nice male from BigJohn. I now want to journey into the pleco hobby and try to breed L201's, L397's and possibly L007's. These are the pleco's I really like the patterns and colours.
I will be building everything from scratch to make sure I have the best possible environment for them and the easiest maintenance for me. So this first post is just some idea's I had on the setup and hopefully get back some suggestions from you guys before I start the building process.
So the idea is that I will have 2 to 4 breeding tanks and then a large grow out tank, I am considering the hamburg matten filter for each tank with a central air pump system to feed the turbo uplifts, possibly a small internal 800lph filter to increase the current if needed, but the turbo uplifts do provide a very good flow rate. I guess my tank sizes is what I am more concerned about as I was thinking that the height of the tank shouldn't play to big a role from bottom dwelling pleco's, So I would like to go with breeding tanks size of 2ftx2ftx1ft which I believe should be enough surface area for a breeding pair or trio, I don't want any more than a trio, Then the bottom tank will be a grow out tank of 4ftx2ftx1.5ft, just a little more height for more water volume for the grow outs, so the breeding tanks would be 108 litres each and the growout tank would be about 325 litres. so the breeding rack it self will be 3 tiers with the grow out on the bottom. What do you guys think about this type of setup and Filtration? will a 1ft high tank be enough? I wanted to keep the height down so it could be a manageable 3 tier rack. Each tank will be drilled half way down drain and fill for water changes by adding L shape pvc into the bulkhead inside the tank so it swivels, and a garden hose fitting on the outside bulkhead to connect a hose for drain and fill
All suggestions are welcome and tips on breeding these L's would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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