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domestic-ancistrus / breedingpersonal-anecdote

Male territorial pushing and odontode encounters intensified around breeding.

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Mikey P — The Quick Catch: The Super Red Bristlenose Pleco (Ancistrus sp.)

www.pickfishpets.com · Behavior paragraphs
· published 2025-02-01 · accessed 2026-10-03
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domestic-ancistrus / breedingpersonal-anecdote

Diet included algae wafers, vegetables and occasional worms.

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Male territorial pushing and odontode encounters intensified around breeding.

Diet included algae wafers, vegetables and occasional worms.

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Keeper began with six juvenile Super Reds.

Article gives about 1.5 inches at three months.

Reported pH range was 6.6–7.2.

Keeper aimed to separate fry after two to three weeks.

Breeding setup used a 40-gallon tank with caves and wood.

Reported temperature range was 78–82°F.

First successful group had two males and three females.

Daily RO changes preceded spawning; chemistry and temperature changed together.

Artemia/shrimp mix fed; smaller fry separated; no losses by four-week update.

Both groups spawned after conductivity decline despite different circulation; author infers strong flow unnecessary.

Two earlier fish died after rich feeding; dietary causation remains author's inference.

Four clutches developed in lightly circulating planted community.

Approximately 75% lost across first three cohorts; separate 25 L rearing with daily 50% changes improved outcome.

Author later attributes losses to inadequate breeder-box exchange, correcting original stress/shock explanation.

Three years restarting in March/April suggested internal seasonality to keeper.

Four fish kept in partitioned aquarium; rainwater changes preceded spawning.

At least twenty juveniles counted day 22; some remained inside paternal cave after yolk absorption.

Father might fan food into cave; nocturnal feeding excursions also possible.

First success March 2002 after nearly two years; later male replacements affected brood survival.

First breeder-box cohort lost two of twenty-nine; later unexplained losses. Parent-tank cohort also grew well.

Adults refused offered foods; wood/biofilm feeding inferred. Wood digestion and a no-feed regimen are not established.

First fry almost eight years after import; later three-year pause ended after adding fish.

Sixteen expelled eggs failed in May; four expelled eggs in September preceded fry observed five days later.

Lost breeding male and juvenile egg predation proposed, not demonstrated.

Seven eggs in May produced no survivors; five eggs in October disappeared.

Abandoned clutch artificially incubated; twenty young survived from approximately twenty-five–thirty eggs.

Magnesium and CO2/pH changes proposed as triggers; concurrent interventions confound causation.

Five-fish group repeatedly spawned; typical output twenty-five, sometimes thirty fry.