Quick tricks to help breed your plecs

Andrew

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I see what you are saying :thumbup:

My high phosphate levels come from my tap water, the water authoritys use it to buffer the soft water in the pipes, to stop the pipes corroding through time.
 

Rabbit

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I see what you are saying :thumbup:
My high phosphate levels come from my tap water, the water authoritys use it to buffer the soft water in the pipes, to stop the pipes corroding through time.
Are you using a phosphate removal product?
 

Andrew

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Used RO Water for a year when i was having fry deaths, but changed to HMA filtered water after the ro water didn't help, and have stuck with it since.
I think whatever the water company uses to buffer the water for the pipes, helps buffer the water in my tanks.
 

DJ-don

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Great article mate!~

btw guys if you plan on using meaty foods for conditioning on fish like panaque or ancistrus (the ones that don't do so well with protein) use brine shrimp or even better spirulina brine shrimp. bloodworms can cause bloat in BNs

spirulina brine shrimp are brine shrimp cultured solely on spirulina. Hikari culture this type of shrimp. this stuff is great because of the fact that spirulina helps digestion in fish (so i've heard) and your feeding them a good source of protein
 
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Nat

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Hey everyone,

I am having trouble triggering my 134's & think the PH is a little high.
What is the easiest way to lower it safely? I have plenty of driftwood etc but PH is about 6.9-7. I do daily water changes.
Cheers,
Nat
 
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Nat

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Thanks for that. I've got peat moss here I used for peps. I put it into the canister filter in a mesh bag. I've also got seachem acid buffer. Would that be ok? I think once they breed once they will keep going ok
 

Bigjohnnofish

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Great article mate!~

btw guys if you plan on using meaty foods for conditioning on fish like panaque or ancistrus (the ones that don't do so well with protein) use brine shrimp or even better spirulina brine shrimp. bloodworms can cause bloat in BNs

spirulina brine shrimp are brine shrimp cultured solely on spirulina. Hikari culture this type of shrimp. this stuff is great because of the fact that spirulina helps digestion in fish (so i've heard) and your feeding them a good source of protein
hikari dont culture the brine shrimp on spirilina at all.....
just before packaging they put the brine in a big vat and throw in a heap of spirilina and mix it up then package them.... how do you think the green colour is obtained... brine shrimp fed on spirilina dont go green.... :whistle::whistle::whistle:

there are a few other companies that actually feed their brine spirilina a few days before harvesting and packaging - but they arent green frozen cubes like hikari.....

i have gone off hikari as my favourite food as of late...
they longer get first harvest of bloodworms.... so the quality is down and the worms are much bigger... they also add colouring to their bloodworms to get them looking red.... once again there are better bloodworms available on the market now....
 

T1000

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great write-up.....does these pointers apply to all types of pleco?

let's say spawning is successful...any advice on how to successfully sustain the fries and preventing death?

thank you
 
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