1st bn pleco spawn questions

when mine bred, the female was albino and the male was brown, and the fry were about half brown and the other half albino. good luck with them they look good!!

sounds like yuor doing the right thing. just more w/c, i guess

Dope looking plec's, you are officially the fish whisperer Nguyen.

I like to raise my bristlenose fry in a 10 gallon with a sponge filter, shrimp and lots of java moss and wood. Feed them in one corner and they will congregate there. I leave them in the 10 gallon until they are 1" size then move them to other tanks. If there are no other fish in the adult tank you could raise them there to the 1" size. I normally raise 2-3 spawns together and then future spawns into another tank. Very small fry don't compete well with 1" size fry but do fine with the parents.

Both albino will of course give you all albino. One albino, one normal should give you all het for albino but a small percentage of albino isn't unusual. Most of the fry you have now should be het for albino with 25% or so being normal. Breed them to each other and you should get half albino/ half normal spawns. I bred a trio of browns a few years ago. One female would throw half albino half normal. The other would throw mostly normal with about 10% long fin thrown in. It is fairly unpredictable though as generation after generation has been inbred.

Good luck on the spawn.

Great pics! They do love zucchini. I had a pair that were both brown but one mustve had albino parent because they threw off about 40% albino in each spawn which was quite a surprise to me.

Hey congrats on the babies!! They look to be about a week old. So the first 4-5 days they didn't eat at all because of the egg sac. You're feeding yours what I feed my babies. After the first couple of weeks I try to add other dry foods. Right now mine like Kens veggie sticks.