[The Guy]

So I'm proud say on May 26th I took ownership of Algaebeater "Kevin's" beloved "Confirmed by Brittany L066" Tiger pleco complete set up, I hope I can give them as good a home as Kevin did. Thanks to Reckon "Lawson" for the smooth pickup.
I plan on re-creating a new environment in as natural living conditions as possible in a now going to be 33 gallon long tank in the near future. Pictures will follow once the fish have a few days to settle in. This will be my first attempt at breeding pleco's, I think it's going to be fun. picture of the 33 long added
A few pictures taken May31, these guys are very shy





This will be the new home for my 6 - L66 king tiger pleco's out of a 15 long and into this 33 long habitat tank

 

[The Guy]

Hey Laurie. Good luck on your new venture. What are you starting with ? A pair, trio, or breeding colony of the L333's ? We have a good "supply" of the L-066 King Tigers available in the lower mainland as several local aquarists are breeding them, but I am not aware of anyone breeding the L333 "yellow tigers" around here

As far as we can tell these are L333 and do differ slightly from the L066 apparently the tail tells the tale as the L066 has a deeper tail fork than the L333 as far as I read.
It would be nice if anyone out there that breed L066 could chime in and give some input. Reckon, myself and a few others believe the ones I have to be L333.
I'll try and take some pictures of these 6 in the next few days of and post. I really want to know 100% what I have.

 

[The Guy]

Congrats. I'll watch for it.
Yes thanks Lawson for all the organizing .

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Hey April didn't get much chance to talk to you last night as we were all busy getting things ready to go. I'll give you a call later today.

 

[The Guy]

pictures added

 

[The Guy]

another picture June 5th
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[The Guy]

Look at those stripes![/QUOTE

Ya! they are awesome fish, still working on there new tank, but with other summer stuff going on I don't have as much time as to work on it.

 

[The Guy]

So Charles from what you see in the pictures what's your expert opinion are they L333 or L66?

 

[The Guy]

looking good Laurie

I hope you are sucessful in breeding them.

Thanks Mike, should have fun with it I think.

 

[The Guy]

Once I get their new tank ready with some new caves along with the Amazon river habitat re-creation I hope they will get back to a comfort zone they like . I believe the move stressed them out a bit. I've been doing a lot of research on Planetcatfish and got a lot of great info to help with the tank build.

 

[The Guy]

Ok thanks Charles for the input.

 

[The Guy]

I believe Kevin was selling them at the Spring Auction as L066.

Best regards,

Stuart

Tankful in Vancouver!

devonb a friend of Kevin's was over today for some plants and he seems to recall L066 mentioned by Kevin as well. Everything I've read about tigers it's always mentioned that the L333 is more yellowish-white & black and the L066 is white & black. Devon and I had a close look at these guys and agree they are white & black.

 

[The Guy]

I have some L333 which are whitish in appearance from Apistomaster in Washington which are his F1's but I also have yellowish F1 L333 from Ontario. I have breed both the L333 and the L066 (from Pat) and they are not that difficult to breed if you have bred other plecos. Just a step up from breeding BNP's. The keys are:

1. Temp. - you need the temp up around 28 or better. Discus temps are perfect.
2. Flow - direct a powerhead in front of the cave mouths.
3. Oxygen - powerhead with venturi, lots of surface agitation or an airstone.

As a matter of face 2 and 3 are the keys to breeding any plecos. The temps will vary a bit depending on the species and where they are from.

Hypancistrus more meaty food eaters but still enjoy a bit of vegetable matter. I have great success keeping and breeding them feeding mainly Ken's earthworm sticks and NLS Thera A. They love both. I will occasionally throw a chunk of zucchini in there too.

Good luck with the breeding.

Thanks Gary for the tips.

 

[The Guy]

Well I finally got confirmation from Brittany " Brisch on BCA" who was a good friend of Kevin's, she tells me that my king tigers are indeed L66's and that Kevin special ordered them. Now time to move forward and get their tank ready, I just received some new cave I ordered from Angel fins.
These are considered medium size so I got 4 1"x 1" x 5" & 4 1 1/2" x 1" x 5" seem to be great quality.

 

[The Guy]

Picture of 33 Gallon long tank. Going to be using an Eheim 2236 Echo pro series canister for lots of filtration turn over and a sponge filter for water oxygenation. slowly getting there. Read that these L66 tigers like low lighting so I'm using Home Depot $29 single LED T-8 light stick mounted 20" above the tank. I can spin the fixture in the mounting brackets to change intensity. Very cool light.

 

[The Guy]

My 33 long, not quite finished yet but the fish are in now and out of the cramped 15 long.

 

[The Guy]

Thanks Gary gotta give those pleco's a nice home.