Bristlenose Pleco Breeding Diary

[Sheldon13]

Congrats on the red eggs!

On the mysteries, I’m pretty ignorant. I’ve had mysteries for about 6 years and never had eggs until a month ago. The only change I made was I started feeding them Repashy gel foods, including the high calcium ones. They seemed to think this made it a good situation to breed in.

 

[Jessielee83]

Thanks! Hmmm ya I'm not in a real hurry with winter xoming and all but would be a good growout time but I do feed repashy and green beans and I make snello that has the spirulina powder amd calcium carbonate powder and bunch of other things. I guess time will tell and ill let nature take its course lol

 

[Jessielee83]

Well red kicked the eggs. Looks like infertile. Must still be young. Not sure if bred before but this is first time for me since ive had them. I saved some that were still orange so will see if a few make it. If not will wait until next time. Back to the drawing board

 

[Sheldon13]

Huh. That’s a bummer. Oh well I’m sure it will happen again with time.

 

[Jessielee83]

Ya I'm sure it will too. Ill just be waiting another 4 to 6 weeks lol..you just get so excited when you see them on eggs. Then when it doesn't work out it sucks lol

 

[Jessielee83]

So still nothing going on with the bns. Lemons still growing out nicely. Just upgraded their grow out tank.

And on a side not I was left with 2 surprises tgis week from my ivory mystery snails! My very first clutches. Now time to see if I can hatch these babies!

 

[Sheldon13]

So still nothing going on with the bns. Lemons still growing out nicely. Just upgraded their grow out tank. View attachment 632336
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And on a side not I was left with 2 surprises tgis week from my ivory mystery snails! My very first clutches. Now time to see if I can hatch these babies!View attachment 632338View attachment 632339

The plecos are so cuuuute!

Mystery snail eggs are super easy to incubate and hatch. Let me know if you need any tips.

 

[Jessielee83]

The plecos are so cuuuute!

Mystery snail eggs are super easy to incubate and hatch. Let me know if you need any tips.

Thanks!! I have them floating in incubator now. One was monday and one yesterday morning. So we will see in cpl weeks.

 

[Sheldon13]

Thanks!! I have them floating in incubator now. One was monday and one yesterday morning. So we will see in cpl weeks.

Yep. Takes about 10-11 days and they’re ready.

 

[Jessielee83]

Cool. Well there was another real small one laid friday. On thelid. Looks like a little stalagmite lol. And woke up again this morning to the laying another clutch. This one looks like it will be bigger and longer. So for the last wekk its been every other day getting clutched but not sure if same one. All from ivory tank. Sheldon13 do you know what colors they could be. I had blues with the ivorys for a bit and just seperated them a week earlier. So would it be half half or how do snail genetics work? Thanks for any input

 

[Sheldon13]

Cool. Well there was another real small one laid friday. On thelid. Looks like a little stalagmite lol. And woke up again this morning to the laying another clutch. This one looks like it will be bigger and longer. So for the last wekk its been every other day getting clutched but not sure if same one. All from ivory tank. Sheldon13 do you know what colors they could be. I had blues with the ivorys for a bit and just seperated them a week earlier. So would it be half half or how do snail genetics work? Thanks for any input

I’m not sure how the genetics work. But I have the same combination: ivory and blue. It looks like the babies that came out are going to be about half blue or ivory and half wild type.

 

[Jessielee83]

So just an update. My first 2 snail clutches have hatched!! Cant wait to see the colors they are

 

[Jessielee83]

Also I finally got some short fin super reds to breed and lay fertile eggs!! Yay. and my lemon blue eyes are growing lile weed . and I have a breeding pair of longfin super reds coming this week. Busy busy!!