My albino bristlenose plecos are breeding!

This is my female. Just look at that plate definition!

This is my male, he is a high orange or red albino bristlenose.

The males develop bristles on and around their cheeks, tentacules as they're called. Tentacles that are developed from odontodes, meaning that they're closer to teeth an bone than actual tentacles.

The female became gravid a few weeks ago, meaning she started to get plump and develop eggs.

This is the 75 gallon tank that houses them, It's an amazonian scape. High flow and filtration, mostly south american inhabitants and a lot of plants and wood. The wood adds tannins to the water simulating the driftwood laden flood plains and tributaries found around the Amazon river system.

The female laid her clutch and after insemination left to recuperate. The male began his duty of guarding and fanning the clutch, he will remain over the clutch for four to ten days until they hatch.

Unfortunately I have some Malaysian Trumpet Snails, while not usually a nuisance they are omnivorous and will eat eggs opportunistically.

I have a lot of snails, this is but the tip of the iceberg, they burrow under the gravel and emerge at night.

I picked up a dozen Assassin Snails. They are extremely effective snail murderers.

Here is one of the little savage cannibals at work.

I decided it was necessary to separate the clutch from the father due to snails and inquisitive tank mates.

As well as setup a 10 gallon fry rearing tank.

The egg clutch was placed in a floating breeder box and placed directly over the flow and aeration.

Development after four days, more updates to come.

The female was extremely skinny and physically drained afterwards and has been eating non-stop.

Bonus night lights on. Very blue.

Crab tax.

FP edit: Thank you all for your kind words and I assure you that I will post more. In addition I am not Swedish.
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