Pulling L173 Pleco Babies From a Breeding Cave

In this video I demonstrate how I pull L173 pleco fry from the cave shortly after they hatch, and also talk about my recent breeding successes. If you have any questions at all, feel free to email me at [e-mail] and be sure to subscribe to see more amazing pleco videos!
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[@thecatfishden]

Hey Foisy, Just to clear the taxonomy of L173 up. True L173 is traced back to glaser and very few actually exist. L173B is also only traced back to glaser. What is common now is that any fish that looks like the original L173b is regarded as that, without any consideration of origin. The L173 will line is the same way. We can’t trace these back to glaser. Without this they can’t scientifically be regarded as L173. The will line also throws weird patterns. There are very very few L173 in existence. As the will line and 99% of what’s sold is not traceable and hence has a possibility of hybridization.

[@FoisyAquatics]

Thanks for the great info. Whatever the case, I do really enjoy these due to how much the patterns vary on offspring!

[@markjones3699]

Hi Foisy. My apologies, as my question isn't in regards to this vid specifically. But would you have any experience on keeping two breeding colonies together in the same tank from seperate genus as to not interbreed? Say an ancistrus with an hyancistrus. Purely for the fact of maximising tank space. I know that dietary requirements maybe be a point of concern, but interested to know if this has been achieved? Thanking you ahead of time. Kind regards Mark 👍👍👍

[@FoisyAquatics]

Hi Mark, I can't say that I have tried this! For me, I have never attempted it for the dietary reasons you outlined, and also because I only run 20G longs, I have never had enough excess space in a tank to attempt something like that

[@scottcahala7779]

Congratulations. Thanks for sharing. They look awesome.

[@Hydrahandle7]

No way!! Right on brother!!

[@aarongrace2376]

Hi I believe I’m somewhat local to you based off a few of your videos. If you’d ever sell locally I’d be interested, had two bad shipping experiences in the cold with my UPS guy in Westport and no shops have any hypancistrus locally typically

[@FoisyAquatics]

Hi there! Feel free to send me an email at [e-mail] to further discuss.

[@markfranklin8831]

Very cool good luck with them fry. Thanks for sharing

[@FoisyAquatics]

Thanks for watching!

[@telahcottreau944]

What would my outcomes be for breeding albino bristlenose female short fin. To a super red bristlenose long fun male? I know they will look all wild type. But will they all carry long fin and super red? Thanks

[@telahcottreau944]

When do you pull the fry? I think I waited too long haha they were really hard to pull out of the cave

[@zebraplecofans]

Congratulations 😊

[@FoisyAquatics]

Thank you!! 😊

[@MacJank7]

Very nice!

[@FoisyAquatics]

Thanks!

[@shanebroome403]

Do you have anything available

[@FoisyAquatics]

I do! If you provide me your email, I can add you to my inventory mailing list

[@Platinum_aquat.]

Always good seeing your videos!

[@FoisyAquatics]

Glad you like them!