It's going to depend on your water change regime. If your able to keep food and fresh incoming water regularly replenished, the growing fish fry can be kept in those breeder boxes longer - similar to cage culturing food fish in rivers. What are your plans for all the fish? I wouldn't recommend thos...

Thanks Eric good to hear from you! I'll get some more pics of the others this weekend!

Just curious on my colony of
5" L204 emperor plecos would these 2 be females or males!
I was thinking males this large would have more odontodes
Thanks in advance for the advice friends!

I been lining up Ziss breeder boxes on my tanks now with 2 batches of fry in each basket so about 100 babies in each breeder box.
I have a few grow out tanks now with 6-8 month olds I wondering how long 100 can stay in the box
Any advice moving forward I'm feeling overwhelmed with babies

Does everyone have better luck raising the fry in ziss breeder boxes or letting loose in a smaller growout tank?
My plan was to have a 50 gallon grow out tank and divide it into 3 by fry size with matala pads!

Thanks for your message and the insights that makes sense!
I been lining up ziss breeder boxes across my tanks to separate the stages of the growouts!

Hi friends thanks in advance for any advice.
When shipping baby & sub adult L397 plecos how long do you fast them before shipping?

Thanks for the message that's excellent information!

Hi Jeanne!
The winglers are in an egg tumbler and the 1 month old fry are in a breeder box!

Hope everyone is doing well!
Can I mix new wigglers with 1 month old fry? I got a double spawn here with my L306

That's awesome news excited to see more updates friend!

That would be a female Apteronotus bonapartii.

Wow thanks so much!
So the male has the much larger snout but not as large of a snout as a male hasenami?

Anyone know anything about knifes. It's from Peru and 10"+.
Wondering if this is the bonaparti or Hasemi?
Or something else.
Thanks in advance...

So nice to get your message!
It's been a month and I just still don't trust the bamboo

Hi everyone wanted some advice in these bamboo caves I bought on ebay. The seller said they were boiled. When I received them they stunk. After soaking in a bucket changing water twice a day for a month they still stink. Any tricks to use them. All my caves are from Erics pleco shop first time tryin...

That's so nice and excellent channel!

Hi Eric I also use the fluval E series in all my tanks.
I was just thinking the slots in the guard seem big enough for babies to get thru
I been letting babies grow up in tanks after about 1" but sometimes very small babies escape. Non seem to get burned by the E fluvals!

Thanks so much for your message! I added a matala pad to the corner of the tank to hide the heater behind!

I was wondering if anyone had any issues with baby l306 plecos and heaters?

Excellent so exciting!

Nice one good luck!
Do you run a powerhead in front of your caves?

Hi friends hope everyone is doing well! I have two questions on pleco babies... Can we mix 1 day old hatchlings with 2 week old baby plecos? Can we mix new eggs with 2 week old babies? Thanks so much for the advice and thanks for everything I learned the most from this forum! https://youtube.com/sho...

Hi everyone anybody ever seen a chubby with stripes like these? Reminds me of the orange jurenese cats
I have some new L306 hatchling along with l397!

Anyone know if L306 are on the Lacey Act in the USA? Thanks team!

Thanks for your message!
I been following you for years and really appreciate your insights
I seem to be on a roll with eggs and have quote a few batches. I had to put winglers with 1 week Olds and so far looks good

Hope everyone is doing well.
Can I add newly hatched baby l397 plecos to 2-3 week old l397 babies.
Just wondering if the larger ones would see the yolk sac as a source of food

Thanks for that clarification!

I was wondering can I add newly hatched fry to the same container as fry that are 2 weeks old.
So far so good just wonder if the 2 week fry would try and eat the yolk sac from the babies.

Was reading the Lacey Act and was wondering if it passed how it would effect my L397 pleco breeding project.
I was under the impression they are still banned from import to the USA

Hi Eric on feeding the babies I been keeping wood and moss and almond leaves in there because I heard they eat before the yolk is dissolved?
I add bacter a also.
Any advice you once mentioned you don't feed every night do you feed every other night?