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- A cluster of bristlenose pleco eggs are found at the bottom of the pleco breeding tank. The eggs were being eaten by two female bristlenose plecos. I saved the eggs from certain death, and then incubated them myself. See the eggs hatch and learn about baby bristlenose plecos.
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Your photography is stellar! Someday, maybe you would show your tanks/fish room? Always, like to learn more, from the pros!
Maybe one day! Thanks for watching my videos. :-)
National Geographic has nothing on you Bro. ! 🔥🔥🔥 Your mini documentaries are amazing!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Glad you like them! Thank you so much. 🙂
Awesome video love seeing births of baby fish. Great job
Thanks 👍
More bristlenose pleco vids love them keep it up id love to see more of the bristlenose!
I love them too. I plan on doing more with my albino bristlenose in the future.
By far my favorite video on the internet. Such amazing footage of these spectacular creatures😍❤️
Thank you so much! 🙂
Thank you so much for these high quality videos! Its greatly appreciated 💛
You're very welcome, and thanks for watching them! ♥
As a bn pleco breeder, I can appreciate this saving of the fry! As on rare occasion some of the males will inadvertently kick thr clutch of eggs out of the pleco cave🙂 it’s rare but does happen every now and then. , thanks for your videos🙏 All so very good!💯⭐️
Thanks for watching. Love those bristlenose! :-D
Just awesome footage mate. well done and thank you for your efforts.
Glad you enjoyed it! I have so much fun making these videos.
Very informative and great narration, slow and steady.
Thanks. Slow and steady wins the race. . .
Love the Videos Brother!! the videography is stellar and i love you intellect and format!!!! KEEP IT UP MY DUDE!!!
Thank you so much! I appreciate the love. :-)
Great video. My bristlenose just laid for the 2nd time. 1st time all the babies disappeared. This time as soon as I saw a fry I started splashing the babies out of the cave into a breeder box. they started eating green beans this morning.
That is awesome! Removing them when they're in the cave is the easiest way to catch them too! Best of luck.
@@TheDave333 Thank you and looking forward to your next vid
I've been watching all your videos and really enjoy them. Thanks
Wow! Thank you so much. I really enjoy making them. 😁
Great you saved them and made this wonderful footage.
Today l lost my beloved lady Ancistrus, she was with me over 7 years. Despite professional cure she was too I'll. She was from much inbreed heritage from "aquarist breeder" and live long regarding her genetics.
This video bring a little bit smile to me today.
Always happy to make others smile. Thanks for watching the video. 😃
Thanks for another great documentary
You're very welcome!
Thank you thank you, very easy to understand and care for my pleco eggs. Xx
You're very welcome> Happy to help. :-)
Can't believe you waited a whole year to see the baby develope
Dedication
I love what I do, so it's very easy to be this dedicated. My Assassin snail video took 9 months to film !!! And, I have a video that I've been working on for the last 2 years, and I'm going on a third year of filming now. It's out in a local river, so I can only film when the water is warm enough to swim in. I spend a lot of time filming in the local lakes and rivers. I love the water. Fish tank are so much easier to film. 😃
@@TheDave333 wow good to know I'm watching the best fish TH-camr
I have found eggs kicked out myself but yor videos are just next level 👀👍🏽✌🏽
Thank you so much!
Please continue to film them, I'd love to know how they develop. Great content as always man
Thank you. I have a three part documentary all about these beautiful fish.
I will never tire of watching the wonder of birth. These babies are adorable. Where was their attentive Dad when they were being eaten? Your filming is, as always, spectacular.🖤🇨🇦
The male was still in the tank. However, once the eggs are ejected from the cave where the fish spawn, they're usually abandoned because they're too hard to take care of out in the open. In fact, an exhausted male will sometimes intentionally eject the eggs from his cave. This can happen if he's the only male in a tank with too many females who are constantly laying eggs. Part of the reason is that the male doesn't usually eat while he's tending to his young, so repeated spawning can take its toll, and cause him to abandon the eggs. Self-preservation is usually more important than procreation.
@@TheDave333 Thank you, I didn’t know that. One can hardly blame a poor guy trying to do an endless job all by himself. These are very interesting fish.🖤🇨🇦
👋 One video per day ,we are being spoiled ,thanks for your AMAZING work, it’s just perfect 👍 👌👏👏👏
My pleasure 😊
Plecos are wonderful fish!
They really are! I was filming some of my juvenile albino juvenile bristlenose last night. I recorded them climbing up the side of their tank above the waterline. The tank was half-full. They climbed up the glass following a thin stream of water that was running down the side of the glass. . . Amazing, video coming soon. . . 😁
Can you do a video on the camera equipment you use for your videos? It would be cool!
That doesn't sound like any fun at all! Maybe in the future, when I run out of fish!
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Like a discovery channel, thank you!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for this video. I have bred bristlenose plecos for two years. I am expecting a mated pair of longfin blue eyed lemon plecos in a day or two.
Best of luck beautiful fish
Excellent 👍🏻
Thanks 🐠
Those little plecos should grow into very healthy fish. They survived hard condition, even fungus.
They did grow into strong healthy fish. . .
Fantastic videography! Loved your video! When one of the eggs grew a fungus what did you do with that egg? Try to remove it?
They are very hard to remove without damaging the other eggs around it. The glue that holds them together is incredibly strong!
@@TheDave333 what did you do? Did you remove it
I left the egg with the fungus in place. It didn't spread to the other eggs. These eggs are tough, and seem to handle the fungus quite well. I think the eggs with the fungus were damaged by the females who were chewing at them. The other eggs were fine.
@@TheDave333 gotcha, thank you!
Excellent!
Thank you! Cheers!
What?! Cichlids don't have a mouth when they're born?! That's strange.
Many fish are born without a mouth, pectoral fins, and ventral fins. Bristlenose plecos rule. . .
Hi again. I had some advice before from you which I appreciated. Can you tell me if the Bristlenose Plecos will still lay eggs even though fry/current young are still in tank with Plecos present please. Thank you 😊
The fry need to leave the cave first. Then, if the male has the strength, he'll spawn again. It's fine if the fry have left the cave and are moving around the tank, he'll still spawn.
Ik that fish are sorta dumb and eat their own eggs but you would think they would've been hard wired to know better and not eat their eggs. Great video Dave
Thanks for watching the video. In this case, it's only the male who cares for the eggs. So, I guess the females are less attached to their young. It's good thing we don't usually eat our young! lol :-)
@@TheDave333 ayo usually? What you mean by that
I was just kidding, we should never eat our young. :-)
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The Dave , Can you get a breeding pair/trio from the same egg clutch, i.e. siblings, is this
healthy ? Top, Top Vid.
Yes, you can. However, If any of the offspring from a brother sister match come out defective, they should be removed from the gene pool.
What camera do you use and how do clean you glass to get these shots?
They don't make the camera that I used in this video anymore. I've placed a link to the camera that I'm currently using in the video description section beneath this video. I clean the inside of the glass with a standard magnetic glass scraper/cleaner. For the outside of the glass, I use white vinegar and a lens cleaning cloth.
Hello Dave, I'm a big fan of your channel, but I notice your views are increadibly low because you don't put keywords onto your videos and optimize it. Is there anyway I can reach out to you to help you with this matter?
Thanks for watching the video, and your offer to help. I understand how SEO works, and I use it to some extent, but it often seems too contrived and forced when I try to cram a lot of keywords in the narration. Some videos use more keywords than others, but I don't usually bother with short videos like this one.
How do I feed my bristlenose pleco? He likes to be in the plant and glass but not the substrate. He been in the tank for a week.
zucchini and green beans are good food just be sure to wash the zucchini very well and use something to make it sink
I use a lot of frozen green beans. They float at first, but they eventually sink and land on the substrate. The pleco will eventually sit on the substrate and eat them. Be sure to provide it with hiding places, and driftwood that it can chew on.
If I put my corydoras with my plecos, will they eat the pleco eggs
The male pleco should keep them safe from harm while they're still in the cave.
Is there a reason why the fry do all of that wiggling? Is it to keep their muscles engaged? Burn off excess energy? Or maybe even to move fresher water closer to their gills?
It'd seem like a waste of precious energy otherwise...
Yes, the wriggling keeps the water around them moving, so they can get more oxygen. All fry wriggle/ wiggle, some more than others. Newborn cichlids wriggle a lot, but the BNP babies wriggle much less, probably because they're way more mobile than newborn cichlids. It's all about oxygen . . .
I can't help but wonder why the male who should of been raising them decided not to ?
If they have several females to spawn with, sometimes a single male can get overwhelmed by all of the egg production and give them the boot because he's too worn out to raise more babies, and sometimes they just fallout of the cave accidentally. Which is probably more often the cause.
question i find eggs kicked out , is it because the females in the tank are competing for the male ? i had no idea the females would go into the cave and eat the eggs . Awesome video
If there are too many females and only one male, the males can get worn out and eject the eggs from the cave. Part of the reason is that the males don't eat when they're caring for their young, so if they haven't been fed enough, or they're really hungry they give up and quit tending to the eggs.
@@TheDave333 makes sense I keep one female to one male , so I need to remove the adult female and give him a break , so keep a female sorority tank and only add female to male when he is rested , maybe week or two after fry have left the cave , thank you for your help
One male and one female shouldn't cause a problem.
Dave, do you have those plecos today? If yes, how are they?
I do still have these plecos! In the beginning, I started with 4 brown / natural colored ones, and those brown adults had some albino babies. I then bred those albino babies with each other to make more albinos. I removed all of the brown ones, and now I just keep albino Ancistrus. My current generation of albino adults produce 100% albino babies, and their great great grand parents were completely brown. . . They breed like crazy. 😁
Sounds great!
Albinism is determined by recessive genes, albinos will produce albino offspring, no chance to return. Dark plecos may carry albino genes and smaller part of their young may be albino. Or another combination - one albino parent, second dark - offspring depend of presence of albino gene in dark parent. Example of my Gustav - he is very dark , normal short tailed. His mother was like him but father was long fins albino.
In my case, since all of the adults now carry the recessive gene, I haven't seen dark covered fry in over a year. I'm sure one or two will show up in the future. . .
@@TheDave333 you will not see dark plecos in your population. Except case when you add some fresh blood who are dark. Second case would be self induced mutations toward dark colour but chance is extremely rare. Your albinos don't only carry this feature, their genes set is washed from those responsible for dark pigments. Albino or dark, this feature is heritate in simple way, like in Mendel's peas.
Thank you for the explanation. Good to know. 😁
Do you know anything about antarctic icefish?
Not a single thing other than what I can learn from its name. 😁
@@TheDave333 They are the only vertebrates with white blood.
what carries the oxygen with no hemoglobin ?
@@TheDave333 Their physical blood solutions.
The cold water carries more oxygen so that probably helps.
I have four
Awesome, they're great fish.
I….I can’t…it’s too….it’s too much 🤧
Don't give up . . .
Bery good
Thanks!