Maybe one day! Thanks for watching my videos. :-)

Glad you like them! Thank you so much. 🙂

You're very welcome, and thanks for watching them! ♥

I love them too. I plan on doing more with my albino bristlenose in the future.

Thank you so much! 🙂

Thanks 👍

Thank you so much! I appreciate the love. :-)

Glad you enjoyed it! I have so much fun making these videos.

Wow! Thank you so much. I really enjoy making them. 😁

You're very welcome!

Thanks for watching. Love those bristlenose! :-D

Thanks. Slow and steady wins the race. . .

You're very welcome> Happy to help. :-)

Always happy to make others smile. Thanks for watching the video. 😃

That is awesome! Removing them when they're in the cave is the easiest way to catch them too! Best of luck.

@@TheDave333 Thank you and looking forward to your next vid

Thank you so much!

Thank you. I have a three part documentary all about these beautiful fish.

Thank you so much!

My pleasure 😊

The male was still in the tank. However, once the eggs are ejected from the cave where the fish spawn, they're usually abandoned because they're too hard to take care of out in the open. In fact, an exhausted male will sometimes intentionally eject the eggs from his cave. This can happen if he's the only male in a tank with too many females who are constantly laying eggs. Part of the reason is that the male doesn't usually eat while he's tending to his young, so repeated spawning can take its toll, and cause him to abandon the eggs. Self-preservation is usually more important than procreation.

@@TheDave333 Thank you, I didn’t know that. One can hardly blame a poor guy trying to do an endless job all by himself. These are very interesting fish.🖤🇨🇦

I love what I do, so it's very easy to be this dedicated. My Assassin snail video took 9 months to film !!! And, I have a video that I've been working on for the last 2 years, and I'm going on a third year of filming now. It's out in a local river, so I can only film when the water is warm enough to swim in. I spend a lot of time filming in the local lakes and rivers. I love the water. Fish tank are so much easier to film. 😃

@@TheDave333 wow good to know I'm watching the best fish KZfaqr

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They really are! I was filming some of my juvenile albino juvenile bristlenose last night. I recorded them climbing up the side of their tank above the waterline. The tank was half-full. They climbed up the glass following a thin stream of water that was running down the side of the glass. . . Amazing, video coming soon. . . 😁

Thank you! Cheers!

That doesn't sound like any fun at all! Maybe in the future, when I run out of fish! 😃

Best of luck beautiful fish

They are very hard to remove without damaging the other eggs around it. The glue that holds them together is incredibly strong!

@@TheDave333 what did you do? Did you remove it

I left the egg with the fungus in place. It didn't spread to the other eggs. These eggs are tough, and seem to handle the fungus quite well. I think the eggs with the fungus were damaged by the females who were chewing at them. The other eggs were fine.

@@TheDave333 gotcha, thank you!

They did grow into strong healthy fish. . .

The fry need to leave the cave first. Then, if the male has the strength, he'll spawn again. It's fine if the fry have left the cave and are moving around the tank, he'll still spawn.

Thanks for watching the video. In this case, it's only the male who cares for the eggs. So, I guess the females are less attached to their young. It's good thing we don't usually eat our young! lol :-)

@@TheDave333 ayo usually? What you mean by that

I was just kidding, we should never eat our young. :-)

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They don't make the camera that I used in this video anymore. I've placed a link to the camera that I'm currently using in the video description section beneath this video. I clean the inside of the glass with a standard magnetic glass scraper/cleaner. For the outside of the glass, I use white vinegar and a lens cleaning cloth.

Yes, you can. However, If any of the offspring from a brother sister match come out defective, they should be removed from the gene pool.

Thanks for watching the video, and your offer to help. I understand how SEO works, and I use it to some extent, but it often seems too contrived and forced when I try to cram a lot of keywords in the narration. Some videos use more keywords than others, but I don't usually bother with short videos like this one.

Many fish are born without a mouth, pectoral fins, and ventral fins. Bristlenose plecos rule. . .

zucchini and green beans are good food just be sure to wash the zucchini very well and use something to make it sink

I use a lot of frozen green beans. They float at first, but they eventually sink and land on the substrate. The pleco will eventually sit on the substrate and eat them. Be sure to provide it with hiding places, and driftwood that it can chew on.

The male pleco should keep them safe from harm while they're still in the cave.

I do still have these plecos! In the beginning, I started with 4 brown / natural colored ones, and those brown adults had some albino babies. I then bred those albino babies with each other to make more albinos. I removed all of the brown ones, and now I just keep albino Ancistrus. My current generation of albino adults produce 100% albino babies, and their great great grand parents were completely brown. . . They breed like crazy. 😁

Sounds great! Albinism is determined by recessive genes, albinos will produce albino offspring, no chance to return. Dark plecos may carry albino genes and smaller part of their young may be albino. Or another combination - one albino parent, second dark - offspring depend of presence of albino gene in dark parent. Example of my Gustav - he is very dark , normal short tailed. His mother was like him but father was long fins albino.

In my case, since all of the adults now carry the recessive gene, I haven't seen dark covered fry in over a year. I'm sure one or two will show up in the future. . .

@@TheDave333 you will not see dark plecos in your population. Except case when you add some fresh blood who are dark. Second case would be self induced mutations toward dark colour but chance is extremely rare. Your albinos don't only carry this feature, their genes set is washed from those responsible for dark pigments. Albino or dark, this feature is heritate in simple way, like in Mendel's peas.

Thank you for the explanation. Good to know. 😁

Awesome, they're great fish.

If there are too many females and only one male, the males can get worn out and eject the eggs from the cave. Part of the reason is that the males don't eat when they're caring for their young, so if they haven't been fed enough, or they're really hungry they give up and quit tending to the eggs.

@@TheDave333 makes sense I keep one female to one male , so I need to remove the adult female and give him a break , so keep a female sorority tank and only add female to male when he is rested , maybe week or two after fry have left the cave , thank you for your help

One male and one female shouldn't cause a problem.

Not a single thing other than what I can learn from its name. 😁

@@TheDave333 They are the only vertebrates with white blood.

what carries the oxygen with no hemoglobin ?

@@TheDave333 Their physical blood solutions.

The cold water carries more oxygen so that probably helps.

Yes, the wriggling keeps the water around them moving, so they can get more oxygen. All fry wriggle/ wiggle, some more than others. Newborn cichlids wriggle a lot, but the BNP babies wriggle much less, probably because they're way more mobile than newborn cichlids. It's all about oxygen . . .

If they have several females to spawn with, sometimes a single male can get overwhelmed by all of the egg production and give them the boot because he's too worn out to raise more babies, and sometimes they just fallout of the cave accidentally. Which is probably more often the cause.

Don't give up . . .

Thanks!