Baby Pleco Pix

Able to leap tall ramshorns in a single bound...

Yet smaller than the MTS on the left:





About half are albino


Big Daddy hanging out of his love shack:


Mom:


Older sibling:




Uncle lounging in nearby condo:

The lady long fin is looking fine. She's sharing a 29 that's still heavily crusted with algae growth with a male LF just a hair larger, probably very close to the same age. I figure they'll reach breeding size in a couple more months. I'm looking into getting some of the super red BN's, but the fry aren't much more than 1" and $50 apiece.
The uncle (left on bottom pic) was trying to crash the party with Dad and his date last night. I noticed he had a female in his shell, then the other male squeezed in as well. A wiggler got kicked out and the female finally bailed, but no eggs were left behind. I suspect she got stung by the males' spines as they argued for her favors.

I actually measured one of the babies on the front glass, they're 5/8" total length. The single larger juvie is just a hair over 1". Not bad pics for a point-and-shoot autofocus camera. I'm still researching the super reds, want to make sure I have a tank ready for them. I think they're a selectively bred color variant of regular BN pleco's. If so, I'm thinking outcrossing them with longfin albino's may eventually yield amelanistic red longfins.