My name is Robbert
I live in groningen (the netherlands)and together with a good friend of mine we started on breeding several south american cichlids and also zebrapleco's.
I already had some zebra's more than almost two years ago. the funny thing was that they started breeding within a week after i bought them(me first reaction was: oh no.. one died :S because there were two in one cave
but then I realized what was going on... After soime months, I told a friend of me that I was having litters roughly every month from this group.. so we decided to really try to get things roling..
to make a long story short.. we managed to get our hands on.. about 65 animals (smallets around 5 cm).
but ofcourse if you want to do it in a big way.. things go wrong.. we were having filtration problems... to much nitrate in the water and of course no breeding.. at a certain point we switched from tanks and filters and now everything starts going again... and last month we had three nests...
we group housed the animals for now.. divided over 4 tanks with a lot op caves, rocks some wood and.. good filtration...
The animals seem to be happy are eating very well. the idea is that when the animals are settled.. that we make the groups smaller and divide them over more tanks...
oh for the rest we breed, geo's, heros, tahuantosuyoa, caquetaya, and dicrossus sp. tapajos..
so that's enough for now i think
best wishes
Robbert
We currently have between 40-50 animals which are divided over 4 tanks.. we started with housing pairs.. but we got some filtration problems in this we so we switched to group housing
