well, here we only use methelyne blue. We belive had been fighting among them, our pH is 6.8 and we keep a constant temperature and use salt, keep in 28 C. and must change water 20% all day. keep in place with less clarity
we had get sucess here, but some time, depending on the degree of trauma lose

Welll, we had sucess with breeding zebra pleco in Brazil with a zebra pleco after 3 years older.