Removing the eggs of my bristle nose pleco's?

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  1. Rob

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    My Bristle nose pleco male is guarding the second batch of eggs, the first batch was devoured by my loaches, can a person remove eggs into another tank? Do I transfer daddy and log with eggs? Please help!
     
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    I would personally move the lot if you can!!!
     
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    Cool!Thanks. Just as well I have a small tank running,water parameters almost identical to big tank.
     
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    Move dad and eggs
     
    Laracroft, Oct 21, 2011
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    I would rather move the loaches if that is an option.
    Catching the father and moving eggs etc risks stressing the father.

    What else do you have in the tank?
    If there are no other bottom dwellers, the eggs should be ok with the father. As soon as they hatch though and start swimming about, I would then move them on to a tank of their own to grow on a bit.
     
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    Thanks guys. Unfortunately I was to late,could not move them the same evening,would have run the risk of waking up my wife and 6 month old daughter that is busy teething!

    My tank has a lot of bottom dwellers! 7x clown loaches(size 12-almost 20 cm) 3x small clowns, 3x zebra loaches,2x scavenger loaches, 2x kuli loaches, 1x high-fin loach,16xcory's,3x spotted doradrid's,3x L201,1x vitata pleco,BN pair and 2x fire eel's!

    Moving daddy and eggs would have been easier.

    Thanks for every ones input.
     
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    I reckon you need to post some pics of your tank..I like your selection of fish..if you have a close up shot of your L201 please post..I want to compare to my group I have..there is a lot of confusion regarding the mixing up of hyp contradens,hyp inspector and L201
     
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    Yup, it does seem that you have a lot of bottom dwellers in your tank. :captain:
    Are you not able to set up another small tank and dedicate it to breeding the Plecs?
     
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    Will be setting up tank for pleco's towards the end of the year,been trying to upload pics,but cant seem to get it right. Will try again tomorrow.
    Got my L201's from Altum.

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    some more pics

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    I love your spotted Plec. Which one is it? I see that in the previous set of pics you have a pic of a pleco, what is it? In the last 2 pics it's a little hard to make this dude out... What is he? Thanks.

    Love the styling of the tank, please post a fts I'd love to see the whole thing.
     
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    The small pleco is the L201 Inspector,the other is my female Bristle nose pleco.Here are some pics of tank.139.jpg157.jpg158.jpg

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