Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Bristol Nose Pleco Fry
Agree with everything John said.
Bristlenose fry are at that size are quite well developed and capable of hiding away so most likely some will survive, saying that the angel and discus will hunt them. If you want to maximize fry survival in the future it’s better to move them (or the dad with the eggs before hatching) as otherwise quite a few will succumb to predation. Doing that leads to other problems though as raising large numbers of Ancistrus takes space, it’s also allot less work to leave them as they are.
If I were you I would leave them in the tank and see how it goes, and if they spawned once they will do it again so you could always plan something for the next one if you want.
Melander
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I had 20 fry and most of them was got eaten so i saved only 8 in different tank, now my female was fat again and i setup a new tank for them but male wasn't going in the cave and female got more fat and finally today she died
so was wondering what i did wrong i saw video on youtube and male goes into cave str8 away so now i only left one male and one female and if anyone have any extra female bristolnose pleco then i would like to take thatplease advice me what i did wrong and yes my tank size was almost 40L and water was getting dirty every day so was chaning water 70% every day with cholorine remover drops in it, there was heater and bubble maker for water conditioning was running in my breeding tank please advice me
thx
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40 litre for three adult Ancistrus seem very small to me, and you should not have to do 70% water changes daily if the filtration is working. What is your water parameters, could you have had an ammonia crash?
Were the filter seeded in your main tank?
I sometimes use a 70 litre for two bns with a 600 litre/h power head plus a very large sponge and still have to keep up the water changes.
Would be interesting to hear from someone else but I have a feeling it was the water rather than that the female could not release the reggs that killed her.
An other option that i often do is to keep them in the main tank and only move the male, cave & eggs once the spawn has taken place or even only the eggs (don't do this myself).
Best of luck, Andreas
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When it comes to filter for this purpose I prefer power heads with a sponge as they provide flow and a large surface for bacteria to grow on which also provides extra food for new born fish.
40 litres is even with over filtration too small for the adults i.m.o..
Andreas
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