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Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:30 pm**

cool..really cool

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:42 pm**

To be honest, it's hard to guesstimate the count in there. I'm calling it 30ish for now. Ask me again in a couple weeks

. Dad tends to do the hippy hippy shake and keep me from really getting a good count every time I've tried so far

. There are LOTS of them though!

Barbie

Posted: **Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:47 pm**

I'm Jealous

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:48 pm**

There were 28 fry from the spawn. I ended up taking them a bit earlier than I planned. One escaped and I got it caught and moved, but the next day the one that escaped was promptly killed by the P. taeniatus "moliwe" in the tank. My fish REALLY should understand that killing plecos gets you grounded! I meanl, I CAN just bag them up and take them to the store at a moments notice :p

Barbie

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:28 pm**

Hi Barbie...................any more pics of the babies?

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:17 am**

Instead of letting your Plevicachromis eat your L-333's send them to me. I would love to have them ;~) Honestly if you get to the point of being able to ship some of your plecos, I would certainly buy some from you. Good luck with them. Very pretty fish indeed, thanks.

~Jeremy

Posted: **Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:41 pm**

Hi Barbie honey ..................any more pics of the L333 babies please?

Posted: **Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:55 am**

Ummm, I'll work on that. I sort of killed all but 3 doing a rainy season water change on the tank for the zebras *sigh*. The 3 left are maturing well and very interestingly patterned. The male is back on a second spawn already, from the same female, so I hope to detail their development this time. I was pretty depressed, but at least now I know that while the L260 and the L46 handle the cold and shift in TDS, the L333 certainly did not.

Barbie

Posted: **Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:12 am**

Sorry to hear about the L333 fry Barbie

. You weren't to know that the fry were less tolerant of changing water parameters. At least the male is on a second spawn, I wish you better luck this time around.

Posted: **Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:32 am**

Well doo doo occurs and all that, but there's nothing like pulling 25 little dead babies out of a tank to make you feel about an inch tall. It was not a bright and shining moment, that's for sure! Right up there with the time I thought the zebra fry had gotten big enough to start on blood worms to discover nope, they weren't big enough *sigh*. It does happen. All you can do is make a note of it and don't do it again!

So everyone make a note, while L46 and L260 have never had problems, L333 that still had a bit of yolk dropped like flies, ok?

Barbie

Posted: **Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:36 am**

Oh that must have been horrible! I'm sorry this happened to you Barbie

All we can do is learn and move on, thanks for sharing your experience!

I was thinking my fry would be large enough for bloodworms, and almost fed it to them yesterday, I think I'll wait now!

Posted: **Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:34 pm**

I agree with what barbie is saying. Recently, had my L66 spawn in the main community tank. Moved the cave, dad and babies into a 10gallon with 100% tank water with old filter material from main tank. Next day the babies were dying left and right. Ended up losing all babies. Only thing different was I rose the temp from 82 to 85. No Amonia, no nitrite, and same pH.

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2005 11:31 pm**

Barbie,

Do you have a picture of one of your Adult L333. There appears to be so many variants!!!!
Have posted some of mine under Photos.

Regards,
Des

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 12:25 am**

I only have pictures of the male in with the fry in his cave, at this point. That male is rarely out unless I've run him out! Mine are very black and white, and HUGE compared to my L260. I'll try to get some more pictures. The pair has spawned AGAIN for the 4th time in less than 3 months. I have lowered the temperature and I'm going to remove the other fish from the tank and let him release them, with minimal water changes this time. Wish me luck!

Barbie

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 4:49 pm**

Good luck sweetheart