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Hello I have a 55 gallon breeder tank with 8 adult female albino bristlenose plecos and 2 6 inch male albino bristlenose plecos.
Water quality is 10ppm nitrates, 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite and ph of around 8. I have driftwood in the tank and 10 ceramic caves of varying sizes scattered throughout the tank.
There is no aggression among the males since each sticks to each end of the tank. I feed them algae wafers and blanched zucchini 2 times a week. I do big weekly big water changes with water around 70 degrees.
The other fish in the tank leaves the plecos and caves alone. I have a wave maker in the tank for some current in the tank. Females are 4-5 inches long. They have not spawned though. Sometimes it looks like there are long logs of what looks like eggs that the female dumped but looks brown and rotten like they got overdeveloped and the females dumped them.
Any idea of why they are not breeding?
These males are massive and can block them in, they have a lot of driftwood to graze on. I feed them nutritious foods.
I have a fluval fx2 and a fluval 407 filtering the tank.
They have plenty of caves to choose from I’m at a loss of why no spawning.
If anyone has advice please let me know. I have a male super red bristlenose with 3 females in a different tank and they are cranking out batches of fry. The tank mates are African cichlids but there’s no aggression between them and the plecos.
Please help!
Water quality is 10ppm nitrates, 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite and ph of around 8. I have driftwood in the tank and 10 ceramic caves of varying sizes scattered throughout the tank.
There is no aggression among the males since each sticks to each end of the tank. I feed them algae wafers and blanched zucchini 2 times a week. I do big weekly big water changes with water around 70 degrees.
The other fish in the tank leaves the plecos and caves alone. I have a wave maker in the tank for some current in the tank. Females are 4-5 inches long. They have not spawned though. Sometimes it looks like there are long logs of what looks like eggs that the female dumped but looks brown and rotten like they got overdeveloped and the females dumped them.
Any idea of why they are not breeding?
These males are massive and can block them in, they have a lot of driftwood to graze on. I feed them nutritious foods.
I have a fluval fx2 and a fluval 407 filtering the tank.
They have plenty of caves to choose from I’m at a loss of why no spawning.
If anyone has advice please let me know. I have a male super red bristlenose with 3 females in a different tank and they are cranking out batches of fry. The tank mates are African cichlids but there’s no aggression between them and the plecos.
Please help!
