Anybody know about super white 236 morphs?

[TwoTankAmin]

It is important to make the distinction between cross breeding species vs line breeding a species in an attempt to fix a specific trait. many of the most popular fish in the hobby of line bred strains. Think discus, angels, bettas, bristlenose etc. I am proud to say that I have always followed a policy of not mixing species in breeding tanks. I may grow some out together, but in such cases I am mixing a striped Hypan and a spotted hypan so there is no doubt I will accidentally get them mixed up when its time to separate them.

As is clear from Brian's pics above is that there is a great deal of variability involved with the l236- regular or super white. If one wishes to play in this area, one should be prepared for disappointment. You have to willing to pay a bunch of money only to discover what you got is not what you had hoped. Super white 236 is a very risky investment. I look at it like a trip to the casino. If one is not able and prepared to lose their money, then do not risk it.

@Brian2014
I do my set-ups differently than a lot of folks. I do the tank layout in a way I feel is most fish friendly which means it is very fish keeper unfriendly. The basis of how I set up tanks comes from what I read on zebrapleco.com many years ago in the section on habitat. Specifically this sentence "The floor of the Xingu is primarily made up of rounded rocks, crevices and a sandy substrate, allowing Hypancistrus zebra to travel throughout its territory under cover from predators."

The result is I give my fish a ton of cover. The downside of this is it makes it harder to see things. The hardest part is when I need to move around fish or to pull offspring. Doing this is a lot of work. Basically, it means I have to remove all of the contents of the tanks except the fish. The upside of that is when I do this (about 2 or 3 times a year on average) I am able to clean the tank really well. With bare bottom tanks one of the things I do before putting the tank back together is to scrub the bottom class with an algae pad. This helps reduce any bio-film issues relating to fry.

I can do things this way because I am a hobby breeder and do not make a living from my fish. This method is OK on a smaller scale, but it is not great for those with many tanks full of breeding plecos or corys where more efficiency is needed. Look at the tanks the really serious breeders on this site have. they are bigger than mine and are usually much easier to work in. but then they also have the space to use bigger tanks. It is a lot easier to catch fish under a large piece of wood than needing to take apart a pile of rocks and wood to get at them.

I will end this long winded post by saying that there are very few methods in this hobby (or the more professional side of fish keeping) which are universal. As the old saying goes "There's more than one way to skin a cat." What works for me may not work for you. The challenge most of us have is finding out what works best for us.

[Brian2014]

When i started out i always went down the root of tons of cover as i remember reading that a hiding plec is a happy plec, but like you said it is not very easy when you need to get to the fry. Then recently i have been browsing some of the Japanese forums where they go to the other extreme of bare minimum in the tank! bare bottom with a few breeding caves just in the open no slate or rock over them! and maybe 1 piece of bog wood in the corner. ( as can be seen in the photo) i now go somewhere in between the two

[Jobro]

I would only go for the minimalisitc approach like that, If I knew, that the light's will be almost always off. I don't think this is a suitable pleco home.