2010年8月9日 · Took out the L397 and put it back into the tank. Took the cave out of the net saver and opened it to put any fry gently into a container and then to pour them into the new fry saver. Whoa there! There is a hairy male in the cave with the fry. The other L397 must have been a female in the cave with the male and the fry and getting ready to lay.

2023年11月24日 · L397 Pleco fry are simpler to feed than some other Pleco fry. As the fry consume their yolk sacs they should be provided blanched cucumber, wood, algae wafers, and veggie flake foods. It can be easier to manage feeding by moving fry to a breeder box attached to the larger nursery aquarium.

2022年11月15日 · On the bottom side of the log were a couple juvenile L397s who quickly scurried off into a big patch of java fern! No idea how many are actually in there. So . . . . . . . . excitement (and long story) over, I now have a question or two!

2022年7月22日 · L397 Plecos will lay about 30 – 50 eggs each time they breed. The majority of the eggs will hatch and the fry survival rate is high. Once eggs are laid, the male will let the female leave the cave, and then it’s the male job to guard the eggs until they hatch.

2014年2月17日 · There are no other fish in there, but a good population of Malaysian trumpet snails as CUC. They get a 30% water change and substrate clean weekly. A few weeks after I first put them in this tank together, one fry appeared. I had previously had a breeding pair of.

2022年2月19日 · Taking out of cave L397 alenguer tiger pleco fry, move them to a breeder box and selecting some older fry to them move from breeding box in a grow out tank#b...

2022年11月15日 · @anewbie Funny, my adult L397s seem to prefer zucchini and cucumber flesh over the skin. I usually keep Igapo Explorer on hand (have some in the mail coming to me as we speak), but never thought of mixing it with Soilent Green nor feeding it …

2023年11月27日 · I've been keeping L397s for about three years now and last year, when they finally came of breeding age, they spawned over a 100 fry. Unfortunately, I really don't have much new advice that can't already be found on the www, but I …

catfish species profile for Panaqolus sp(l397) including natural history, classification and how to keep in an aquarium.

2012年8月17日 · L397 fry can be very prone to bloat and need more wood and green sorts of foods than meaty stuff so if both the L397 and the L134 were to breed in the same tank, the L397 fry might all bloat on you when you feed varied foods to the main tank.