I have eggs!!!!!!!

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Just looked into my 40 litre tank and i spotted a small cluster of eggs. Im super excited. Theres some tiny cpd fry in here and shrimp but this aquarium is home to 3 LDA025.

These plecos cost me a fair bit and i lost 2 quite early. A year later the 3 remaining Pitbulls have bred.
There's about 12 eggs that I can see.

My concern is the shrimp.
 

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Shrimps while waiting for death, will never touches something alive except swallowed by error.

The pleco peppernicle pumpkin seed start like that. It's contagious. If you maintain your conditions...

You need to find someone to buy teenagers muscular plecs under 8 months now.

joyful thing about success in Aquaria is, you are going to be overwhelmed with it.

10 gallons is not holding long and many couples at the same time is impossible.

Just from general plec knowledge. Even the smallest couple. Rids other out a 75 gallons with time. So at the end if you have only a fervent happy couple...

They will have millions of babies. in the next years.

If you bring it to fruition and sell more than 5 hundreds of them, How would that be ?
 
Shrimps while waiting for death, will never touches something alive except swallowed by error.

The pleco peppernicle pumpkin seed start like that. It's contagious. If you maintain your conditions...

You need to find someone to buy teenagers muscular plecs under 8 months now.

joyful thing about success in Aquaria is, you are going to be overwhelmed with it.

10 gallons is not holding long and many couples at the same time is impossible.

Just from general plec knowledge. Even the smallest couple. Rids other out a 75 gallons with time. So at the end if you have only a fervent happy couple...

They will have millions of babies. in the next years.

If you bring it to fruition and sell more than 5 hundreds of them, How would that be ?
Thanks but I sell my livestock on ebay with success. I'm also lucky to have the option of moving them on via an aquatic shop. I have multiple aquariums with 125l being my largest.
I wasn't planning on breed them it just happened.
If I get wrigglers I will post a picture of them
 
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Tried to take pictures but impossible on a cheap phone. Most have hatched now and are chilling out on the glass like tiny sting rays. They are safe from predation in this tank, I observed the eggs closely and they hatched after about a week. I should have recorded the dates. Shrimps left eggs alone.
I have tiny cpd fry in here so no problem.

I will post pictures as soon as I can.
 
I can be of some help here as I have a bit of experience with breeding plecos. Normally, in captivity they are cave spawners. It is easy to buy or even make caves for them. In the wild they find places that will work but in out tanks providing caves is the most effective option. Male claim caves but females will use sometimes use them to shelter in but do not tend to claim one. They like tight spaces for spawning.

One there are fertilized eggs the female is done and she leaves the cave. The dad then takes over. He tends the eggs which hatch out into wigglers. Dad then keeps the water circulating in the cave, and protects the wigglers. At the start there is a huge yolk sac with what looks like a pair of eyes and tiny tail which flaps attached to it. As the yolk is absorbed into the wiggler the yolk shrinks and the wiggler grows. The end point of it all is there comes a time, about 4 weeks after spawning that the yolk is all absorbed and there is a tiny free swimming pleco who has reached the time it should leave the cave and strike out on its own. If there are ovnious threats outside, the dad may try and to hold them in a bit longer.

But until they hit free swimming, they did not need to eat or be fed. But now they do. Sometime a few are reluctant to leave and dad will boot them.

Based on where the eggs were in your pics I am guessing you have no caves, So they made do with the best they could find, Small plecos have small spawns. But they can spawn regularly for extended periods once they start. For those with which I have worked, the females need about two weeks to produce new eggs. However, from spawn to free swimming is about 4 weeks. This makes the ideal spawning ratio as 2m/1fm. My preference was to work with them in groups in species tanks. But they will spawn in community type tanks. However, the fry on the glass can be very tempting food for many fish who can eat them.

It is also important that pleco fry can have foods they can handle. This means that they can rasp off or swallow easily which means tiny size compare ti what they eat when the put on size/bulk.

Clearly you have what it takes to get wigglers, (what is on the glass). At that size they will eat biofilm and anything else that is soft and small enough for them to eat.

My suggestion is to get a few caves and space them in such a way they are spread out. Ideally, place the mouth of the cave facing the front glass so you can see into the cave using a not-too-powerful flashlight. Since they are a small species, a small size pleco cave works.

Look here: https://plecocaves.com/shop/
Any of the 1 or 1.5 inch opening caves would work. You can buy a few (3-4) of different shapes and they will figure it out. The back end must be closed. When you put them onto the tank it helps if you can do so such that the cave tilts slightly toward the back end, This minimizes the chances that a careless dad lets one or more roll out. When this happens to me I have a dedicated baster to suck them up and gently shoot them back into the cave.

edited for a ton of typos
 
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Thanks for taking the time to write that information. I appreciate it.
 
They have lost there yolk sacs and are now scavenging food. Looking good so far.

I counted at least 8 the other day but it's hard to find them in this setup.
 
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I read a little more on them and you have good chance of a having a group that will behave well enough...

To have a very clean tank.

Babies will love boiled spinach.
 
I read a little more on them and you have good chance of a having a group that will behave well enough...

To have a very clean tank.

Babies will love boiled spinach.
I have just put in some boiled dandelion leaves but so far not being touched. I've also added some oak leaves I collected last year. This will get a bio film before breaking down,
I might try spinach 😋
 
I have just put in some boiled dandelion leaves but so far not being touched. I've also added some oak leaves I collected last year. This will get a bio film before breaking down,
I might try spinach 😋

I tried brussels sprouts to gather seed shrimps today and yeah I need cucumbers.
 

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