OMG! Baby ABNs!!!

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hollyfish2000 said:
Well, I have about 30 ABN fry in the tank! I got a breeder net and tried peeling them off the glass to put in the net -- and, well, let's just say that didn't work very well.
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Yeah I haven't had much luck with retrieving the fry once they escape the cave either. I have one spawn of about 8 to 10 that I have growing out in their parents tank because I didn't get to them in time.

I have a stone cave from a guy on Planetcatfish that works pretty well for removing the fry before they escape.
 
turfboss

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Holly -

I put my first spawn of ABN's in a breeder net in the same tank and they all got sucked through the net - so lost them. On the next go around I pulled the cave (with the male in it) and put it in a 5 gal tank - once the male left the cave I made sure the cave was empty put he and the cave back in the big tank and left the fry in the 5 gal - I feed them Repashy (spawn and grow and the new super green) - algae wafers will also work - they soften pretty quickly - also since I have some form of ancistris or cory in every tank - I feed all my tanks - at least once a week - zucchini which I steam (or boil) so it will sink - in my bigger, mainly cichlid tanks I often throw in a stalk from a broccoli or cauliflower head which floats around the tank and the fish chase it around eating off it. For the little guys softening it up so it sinks to the bottom seems to work best.
 
hollyfish2000

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Despite me actively feeding the babies zuccini, they are dwindling. Today, while doing tank maintenance, I opened one of my filters to find about 10 babies living in there. It was really hard to seaparte them out from the gunk in the filter, but I think I ended upw ith three back in the main tank and about 7 in a breeder net. So we'll see what happens as an experiment. The rainbow babies are very interested in the BNs in the breeder net, but I don't see how they can harm them or get into the net.
 
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Best way I've had luck raising pleco fry is by catching them and putting them in another tank. If you dont have a tank set up you can do a quick set-up by taking a 10 gallon aquarium, siphoning out the water from the main tank or at least filling the tank 70% full. Then take the filter sponge from the parents tank and ring it out into the new tank so all the bacteria is in the new tank. wait a day and then acclimate the fry in the 10 gallon tank. then it is easy to feed them and watch their health. Also make sure it is a glass bottom and feed 2 times a day and siphon the excess food off the bottom daily. You'll have 1' plecos in no time...Ill try to post figures of my set-ups for you
 
hollyfish2000

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thanks Chris. But I'm not interested in setting up another tank. I have a 20 gallon high that is my "swing/fry" tank. Unfortunately, right now it has some rainbow fry that are growing up and that makes it an apparently inhospitable place for the baby ABNs.
 
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rainforestexp

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hollyfish2000 said:
thanks Chris. But I'm not interested in setting up another tank. I have a 20 gallon high that is my "swing/fry" tank. Unfortunately, right now it has some rainbow fry that are growing up and that makes it an apparently inhospitable place for the baby ABNs.
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Best thing to do then is lots more hiding places and more "plant coverage" is really the best ting you could do. Water lice might help you out too.
 
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Once my ancistrus started spawning, they did so regularly. So I wouldn't worry about how many fry survive each batch. Soon enough you'll go from "Yea!" to "Not again!" when you see dad guarding the cave.

I thought I'd managed to pull most of my fry and unload them at CCA auctions in the spring, only to find I had 48 left when I put the parents in a pond this summer. Mind you, they'd been living in a 30, hiding in every available nook and cranny of the driftwood.

Still got some left, so CCA can expect to see them show up until I'm kicked out for violating the "don't flood the market with fish everyone already has" clause of my membership.

Blaise
 
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