GOLD NUGGET PLECO , Baryancistrus xanthellus : Collecting and keeping plecos from Rio Xingu
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2020
- Gold nugget plecos collected for the aquarium hobby in the Xingu, basic requirements for keeping Baryancistrus xanthellus , the gold nugget pleco also known as L018, L081, or L177
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I had one 20 years ago. In the evening I'd put paper under the light to make it pretty dim. Then he'd poke his head out the top of the cave and then flip down to the bottom of the cave. Then he'd come out and graze on stuff. He would scrape on the emporer filter outlet at night too. One of my favorites i ever had.
great info thankyou
Love this! Well done. Answered many questions for me.
🐟Thanks for the great video🐟
Dig these guys alot, one of my bucket list plecos.
Fantastic video. Thank you for sharing info and footage on them in the wild.
One of my favorite plecos. Great video!
Speechless, very good video thank you
Great video bro! Keep up the good work.
looking really nice
I was lucky to find an L81 24 years ago here in Israel. I still have him going strong, thank God. The yellow on the dorsal fin is gone though.
That is an old fish! Almost none of the plecos that have the bright edged signal colours on the fin margins as juveniles do keep them as adults.
@@belowwater Another interesting thing I've had with him is the change of color over the whole fish. But that was due to the substrate color. At some point years ago I put in black sand. As a result, the L81 Baryancistrus became dull, its color slightly better than a common pleco. I thought that this was due to age . Three or four years ago I desired a lighter color gravel, due to videos like yours that show lighter river bottoms. Of course immediately the spots popped and the background color of the fish lightened nicely. It started a new honeymoon stage with the fish, long lost because of its dullness along with the hassle of sinking cucumbers all the time for decades.
excellent video!!!
Amazing video! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
ok thanks, great info!!
ignore my comment to add info on how to keep them.
Wow.. I learned alot, always knew it was a sustainable harvest.. this is a great video to share with friends cause the first question I get here in Toronto when I say I have exotic South American cichlids and catfishes, they ask "Is that legal?" Will share, hope to one day go out and catch some myself when Iam done with school :)
You saved me $65. I almost bought one as a birthday gift to myself. But,I don't have a tank for Plecos. I also did not know they get into that 12" range? I'm now wondering how many of those exotic Plecos now seen grow out of those vivid spots and colors and become..subdued?
That spotted Pleco seen in the film..does it too grow out of large spots?
One request..do you ever reach the range of Hypostomus luteus?..That I think is the bucketlist catfish of them all.
many animal species have nicely spotted juveniles, but adult Baryancistrus are also beautiful. H.luteus is from the south of Brazil, not the Amazon, will need much cooler water.
I’m very dedicated to this species
Great video
thank you!
Hi great Video... Can I keep it with my Discus? I have my tank at 82 degrees... How do you feed it because the discus get all the blood worms? Thanks
long term the Baryancistrus may not get enough food, they get very big (14"/35cm) and need food accordingly. You can feed it with cucumber or zucchini that the discus won't eat.
I have a followup question for you: These plecos are regarded as some of the most difficult to breed in captivity. Notwithstanding the good socio-cultural reasons for continuing to source them from the wild, why do you think this species are so hard to breed ex situ?
In nature, Baryancistrus graze on algae all day long. Getting that kind of throughput of food, while maintaining maximum oxygen saturation (they are rheophile), low nitrate/nitrite levels that they like generally can not be achieved with filtration. In a flow through system perhaps we would have better success rates. There is another factor, fish of high value have more people trying to breed them. Today we have lots of people breeding zebra plecos, suggesting that they are easier to breed than any other Hypancistrus species - but it is just a question of how many people are trying. In the case of Baryancistrus xanthellus there is likely less than a handful of aquarists with a group of adults.
@@belowwater brilliant answer! Thanks
can i keep these with my 4 in turtles?
they need really high water quality, it would not be the best choice with turtles.
I cannot keep them alive?
warm and oxygen rich water, with tons of food, but low organic load is a bit tricky to achieve. A lot of light (for algae growth) everyday fresh sweet potato or zucchini and weekly water changes of 50-75% is a good start.
@@belowwater they have 3 different types of gold nugget plecos. Which one is the easier to start?
@@coolwater411 they are all the same, at the bottom (north of the river) they have no spots, and towards the southern range upstream (the headwaters of the Iriri and Xingu rivers) the spots get larger, but no difference at all. For keeping all Baryancistrus are similar, but the Orinoco species (L200/B.subviridis) is a bit hardier.
@@belowwater fresh sweet potato 🍠 like raw with the skin peeled?
@@coolwater411 raw, with skin, slice in half lengthwise, but remove uneaten after 24 hrs. Start with small pieces until they get used to it. Use an old fork to stab it and keep it at the bottom, drill a hole in the handle and attach a string you can remove it easily without getting into the tank.
Do you mean that all these endemic fish are wild-born and captured by humans who can support themselves in no other way than eradicating an endemic species by exporting it to the whole world?
An endemic species that does not reproduce in captivity and that has its small and only habitat destroyed by us humans..?
Shouldn't these beautiful fish already have a rescue project? And only be handled by people who want to see that they feel good and have a long life? And who not only see them as things that just need to be kept alive until they get paid..
B.xanthellus is one of the most common fish in the Xingu, and by no means threatened from overfishing. The biggest threats to the fishes of the XIngu are habitat destruction from the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, and the industrial agriculture in the headwaters of the river, with other threats being the deforestation of the entire region, gold mining and climate change. The problem is that any "rescue project" for fish species would mean protecting the entire water shed, and very few species in the world are so lucky. The much more endangered Hypancistrus zebra is a much greater concern (fishing is banned, but this has not stopped poachers and does not mitigate the threats mentioned above).
@@belowwater Overfishing is not a problem YET. But if it is as you say that their habitat is severely threatened, and that they do not reproduce in captivity, then it is already a problem to think about. If you want to keep the species. Waiting until the disaster is a fact is not the best solution. But.. I understand what you mean, in that particular area, the desire to think sustainably is not so great right now.. Too bad for such a nice fish. Unfortunately, the only way to get rid of poaching is not to buy the fish. But there are always people who are willing to look between the fingers if they can buy cheap..