Bristle nose catfish

**Brookfish** · 01-09-2009, 07:48 PM

A few pics of the Bristle noses ...

**Northernguy** · 01-09-2009, 08:06 PM

Nice shots Mike! They sure are cool.
It kinda makes me want to go get mine.
What do you feed it?
I have one at the lfs but I was waiting for a bit of algae to grow.
I over cleaned it when I switched to sand but I was trying to get rid of the pond snail infestation.

**Brookfish** · 01-09-2009, 08:14 PM

Well as you know they are herbivorous so I try and feed them some
veggies, peas, cucumber, etc. I also drop the odd algae wafer in with
them and I leave the algae on the back glass for them to forage on.
They are not slow at clearing up left over flake food as well, lol

**btate617** · 01-09-2009, 08:21 PM

Can you get the albino one's over there Mike? Seems to be more albino's around here than the "regular" one's. I myself like the regulars

Brian

**Brookfish** · 01-09-2009, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by btate617

Can you get the albino one's over there Mike? Seems to be more albino's around here than the "regular" one's. I myself like the regulars

Brian

We can get them mate, but to be honest i'm not keen on them,
I prefer the regular type myself.

**Northernguy** · 01-09-2009, 08:30 PM

Thanks for the info!

I knew what I was going to feed mine.I am always curious as to what others feed theirs,Thats all!

**Sharon** · 01-09-2009, 10:23 PM

Pictures are stunning!

What camera do you use?

**Brookfish** · 01-09-2009, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by Sharon

Pictures are stunning!

What camera do you use?

Thanks Sharon, I took those with a Nikon D70s.

**Ghostknife** · 01-09-2009, 10:36 PM

Very nice Mike! They look good. Looks a lighter colour than my ones!
What age/ how long have you had them?

**Brookfish** · 01-09-2009, 10:45 PM

These particular ones are about a year old Danny, funny you should
mention their light colour, that's what attracted me to them in the
first place, all other strains I have kept have been darker.