Breeding Ancistrus L144

If you've got a breeding project on at the moment, (preferably fish related), let us know and you might even get added to the spawn list..whe....hey!

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Breeding Ancistrus L144

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I have 1 male and 3 female Ancistrus Temminckii L144.
They are very beautiful fishes!

During the 2 last months they gave birth 4 times… :!:
At this moment they exist more than 100 babies that grow in the aquarium. :D

(Unnecessary I say to you that in this aquarium it does not exist by no means algae..!)
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Those are very nice L144 and fantastic photos!

They are not, however, Ancistrus temminckii, as those should look like This. Ancistrus seem to have just as much "naming" confusion as Hypancistrus anymore :).

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Nice pics dinos :)
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Great pics and congrats on the spawns :)
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Thnks..! :)
Barbie wrote:...They are not, however, Ancistrus temminckii, as those should look like This. Ancistrus seem to have just as much "naming" confusion as Hypancistrus anymore...
I am not absolutely sure... see also this , but it is not much of a problem because the important thing for me is that they reproduced and now I have more than 100 beautiful babies in this aquarium... This means that this fish will now be more spread in Greece (because I will offer them via my greek fish forum).

I feel so lucky getting this fish in the first place, thanks to a friend here in Athens and to Caesars who sent those fish (her babies) to him. :)
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Ancistrus temminckii tends to be one of the general "catch alls" for a name to call these fish. There have been many discussions on the subject at planet catfish, and for awhile, the consensus was that most of them were A. triradiatus, but it's now more generally accepted that they be lumped into Ancistrus sp. 3. L144 at least has a number to describe the xanthic characteristics, but there's no way to know for sure that even those are the same species. I know it's confusing, but I feel it's important to not just assign a name that can't be verified for convenience. That's just my own little issue though ;).

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Barbie wrote:...I know it's confusing, but I feel it's important to not just assign a name that can't be verified for convenience...
You are right, i am also changing the title from "Ancistrus Temminckii - L144" to "Breeding Ancistrus L144" :)

Can you tell me how common L144 is in Europe? And what is their usual price? :?:
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I'm not in Europe, so I think someone else will need to answer that question ;). For prices in the US, you can always check on aquabid.com.

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Youngsters 3-5 cm. are between 3 and 5 euro.
Adults around 10 euro.
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