Re: Nijenssi Spawning

[IDMiamiBob@aol.com]

Francine writes:

> My Nijenssi just had free swimming fry April 27th.  I had a club member come
>  over on the 7th of May to verify the spawn.  There were so many.  I figured
>  that with only having the five Ottocats, the Zebra Pl*co and a Butterfly
>  Pl*co in this 30 gal, heavily planted tank, I would have a larger survival
>  count.  Now there are maybe 4 or 5 fry.  I was deeply dissapointed.  There
>  went my breeder points.  I was truly thinking of breaking the tank down and
>  starting again with a bare bottom tank.  However, at 9:45 pm tonight I got
>  the pleasure to watch my pair lay and fertilise another clutch of 40 to 50
>  eggs!  I have read the lists and numerous books on the whole affair, but
>  have never witnessed it first hand.  I am reborn.
>  I just had to tell someone.

The zebra pleco is carnivorous, and while I am not familiar with butterfly 
plecos, all of them eat eggs and almost all species will eat fry.  If you 
want to get some PBAP points, you better get these eggs and the mom moved to 
another tank, or remove the catfish.

Bob Dixon


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