Bristlenose Breeding

[Red]

I just found i had a lot of BN babies in my 35gal.
Stock list-
cherry shrimp
(?) of adult bristlenose
moscow guppies
6-7 cories
Heres the tank-
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/fishpictures/data/500/thumbs/215.jpg (http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/fishpictures/showphoto.php?photo=19717)

[Lab_Rat]

Very cool Red, it's always fun to find babies in the tank.

[Red]

Very cool Red, it's always fun to find babies in the tank.

thanks lab :)

[toddnbecka]

Congrats on the new arrivals. I have so many brown BN I seldom bother with the fry any more. I found some wigglers about a week ago when I was cleaning one of the 75's, and put a dozen or so into an egg tumbler to see what they were. The parents must have been offspring from the old brown trio I moved along after the fire reds started spawning, there were a few albino fry after the yolk sacs were absorbed. The rest of that brood have undoubtedly long since become cichlid snacks, but the handful from the egg tumbler went into the 38 with the other fry growing out just for the sake of the albino's. I also have 2 pairs of oddball Ancistrus in that 75 with the cichlids and regular brown BN, and about 50 or so of the oddball fry growing out with the L-10a and fire red juvies in the 38.

[Red]

I dont even know where the eggs were hiden inside the tank. I did a waterchange around 3 days ago. I am happy there big enough to keep inside the tank.

[Ticklemekevin10]

cool stuff i havnt seen pleco breed before. is it pretty common?

[dbosman]

cool stuff i havnt seen pleco breed before. is it pretty common?

Bristle nose plecos breed more readily in home aquariums than most other plecos. Then there is the size issue. People can breed bristle noses because you can keep a breeding pair, or more, in what most would call hobby size tanks.

Some of the common plecos can get to be quite large.
Up to two feet from tip to tail.

[Red]

Agreed, there fry are still growing feeding on algae and wafers about a 1/4" size

[Ticklemekevin10]

good stuff i might have to get a couple! i can only find albino ones and anything albino freaks me out haha what if you breed an albino with a regular one? get some of both?

[Red]

Yes, you would get some of both.

[Gail]

I was just about to ask if you can breed different ones together?? I have two female peppermint bn but cant find a male so was wondering if it made a difference or not

[MLBfan]

Yes, you can keep different kinds together and they may breed

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