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[Holmzy]

Hey, I needed to tell my story haha
First of all big shout out to shep for the plecos and big johno and watto for advise

So I decided to try my first L number and was advise to do 397s so I brought 10 and swamped a few around with a mate to change e bloodline around

I had them in the tank for around 2 weeks all males had a cave each waiting for the female to take intrest they were all at the edge of the caves with there tail out

So I thought i would do a massive water change to help them spawn during the water change one of the males decided he didn't want to clean his eggs no more and gave them to me haha

So after advise I made my first tumbler quickly and found around 8-10 eggs couple were not fertilised
This was there first spawn ever

Once the eggs hit wriggler stage I had 6 of them, but once they hit free swimming only had 4 I was so happy that I even saved 4 and I know next time what to do and not to do

Thanks for listening .

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[Michael the fish fanatic]

Did you buy a breeding colony or juvies

[Holmzy]

Ya I brought the colony that shep raised but never breed before so pretty cool .

[shep]

Well done mate,
hopefully you will get a few more next time,
(Told you they were ready)

[Frontosaman]

Must have been the change ov environment that triggered them


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[Holmzy]

Yep they were ready haha hoping more soon .
Ya I think so frontosaman let's hope they don't stop hey .

[Holmzy]

So today I notice fry running around in one of the caves turns out there about one or two days off finishing there egg sack I found out.
Also found more eggs been kicked out not sure why they keep kicking out so let's hope I can save them looks to be about 15 eggs.
I'm so happy .

[malawiman85]

Off to a bloody good start there Holmzy! Nice work.

[Holmzy]

So far I got 8 finishing there sacks plus the 4 I saved before plus these eggs and ones in the caves .
But your right is a good start . Thanks.

[bigjohnnofish]

plecos quite often kick eggs out when they first start spawning... learning process for them too.... plus shining torch in their cave wouldnt be helping....

[Holmzy]

Ahh sweet so not me I don't use touch basically cause the caves are so small the plecos cover all entrance so you really can't see in