Has anybody ever had success breeding plecostamus?

The standard plecostomus has an adult size of around 2 feet. Not many are spawned in home aquariums.

The bristlenose pleco reaches adult size at around 5-6 inches. They spawn in home aquariums all the time. I have a pair of albino BN plecos that produce a batch of fry about once a month. I sell them at fish club auctions and populate my other tanks with them.

They have a flower pot that I prepared as a home for them and they love it. It is a 4" pot that I siliconed a bottom on so it would be dark inside all the time. I then enlarged the drip hole to about 1 3/4". This allows the male to block it when the female goes in so he can entice her to lay her eggs.

Once she does, he lets her leave and then takes care of the eggs until they hatch. Neither the male nor the female will bother the young fish. They have anywhere from 50-100 per batch depending on how old the parents are and how well they are conditioned.

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In the right conditions, they aren't hard to breed. I've only owned bristlenose plecos though.