Thanks for the info!

Has any other male breed besides your alpha?

It's odd in my tank. One of my sub males cave all the time and the biggest male only caves once in a while.

Sweet looking scape dude!

Did you notice a hierarchy change or increased levels of aggression after the rescape?

For reference..6cm = 2.4"

Nautrally older and bigger is always better.


I recently got a bunch in at 2.25". It was very hard to tell male from female.


If I had to guess they start to show signs as 2.25-2.5".

Have you seen your fish fighting?

+1 on tank size.

What type of foods do y'all feed to get the fish in breeding condition?

Lol, so how did you get them out?

For what its worth....IMHO two males.

Where they shipped in blue or green water?

Is the selling doing anything for y'all?

Depends on how many plecos you want to keep.

Nice tank hardscape!

How did you cut the rocks?

How many do you have in this tank?

I feed mine every day at 10pm, 12am, 2am, 4am, 6am and 10am via eheim auto feeder.

I also hand feed them 1-2 times a day when in home on the weekends.

Nahhhhh, he should be able to eat once in a while even with eggs so I think he is fine.

Now, I just wish my colony was breeding!

I seen this more common with new fishes. But I have also seen it done once in a while by older fishes. From my exp. there wasn't anything wrong. It seems like the fish just wanted to keep swimming (perhaps due to high aggression levels at the current place). The fishes all went back to normal after ...

Thank you for your insight.

I have read stories of males fighting and killing each other so I was concerned.

I only recently got the five that I have so I figured it was a good time roads new zebras to the colony.