The Best Freshwater Algae Eaters for Planted Tank: Longfinned Bristlenose Pleco
The BestFreshwater Algae Eaters for Planted Tank: Longfinned Bristlenose Pleco – Ancistrus have for ages been popular aquarium fish, mainly for his or her world-famous reputation have been present in the aquarium hobby since at least the early 1900s, and as champ algae eaters. Photo copyright from imperialtropicals.com The Best Freshwater Algae Eaters for Planted Tank: Longfinned Bristlenose Pleco Of interest, Axelrod states that commercial reproduction of the fish tried but was not able to raise the fry into a size that is saleable. The next post I could locate was a 1979 article by the famous Hans-Joachim Franke of the then East Germany. Franke's photos, in "Breeding Aquarium Fishes: Novel 6," reveal photographs of what we today call Ancistrus sp. 3 in the avocation. Franke failed to offer a specific identity because of his fish nor state where they were imported from. Perhaps of historical interest, Franke's article was also the very first ref...