I guess the longfin is going to be the only pleco in the tank for the remainder of her life, because I put a male in there, thinking a male would be alright, and I had to move him from another tank, but she was aggressive with him, too.
Hi Karen, unfortunately even when you buy a more peaceful fish species, there will be the odd one who is aggressive. It all comes down to the exact fish and their temperament. Hello, im new to keeping a tank and i have 5 guppies and a little bristlenose catfish hes a baby and bareley 2. When i bought him i asked what we should feed him and the person at the aquarium said fish flakes would be fine.
But whenever i try and feed him all the guppys eat the food before its able to sink to the bottom to him. He never seems to go for food and try and get it and just stays at the bottom. Ive tryed many methods of feeding him like putting him in a big plastic container, filling it with the tank water and putting some flakes in there.
I also tried cucumber but he dosebt eat that either. He may not be eating out of shock from moving to the plastic container but im not sure what to do.
Hi Eamonn, have you tried algae wafers? Hi just wondering could you put a bristlenose in a nursery tank to help keep it clean while guppy and molly fry and growing.
We had unexpected babies after having two plecos in the same tank for 6 months. Its litres so there was no chance of catching them and they all disappeared soon, having large gouramis and mollies in there. A month later 3 started emerging that must have survived because they were about an inch long!
Hi, I have some bristlenoses and they have just started to breed, the male is in a cave with the second clutch of egged. My question is will he come out to eat at all? Hi Amy, they normally stay in the cave with the eggs for days. Thank you so much for you helpful advice. Was given two bristlenose from a friend who had unexpected babies in their tank. This evening we have spotted a few baby places in our tank. We had no intention of breeding them!
One appears to be a bristle nose and is about 4 inches long, the other is what I would call a common plec and is about 10 inches long.
The babies are safely tucked into a corner of the tank, out of the reach of other fish and are between half and three quarters of an inch long.
Is this surprise unusual? I had a tank with 10 green tiger barb fish and two bristlenoses. The two grew really a lot, one is 27cm and the other 24cm long.
Now my tiger barb fish started to disappear over night. I read that the bristlenoses are peaceful fish, but is it possible that they started eating their roomies?
Many thanks, Robert. Hi Ahmad, we only suggest keeping one male per tank, unless you have plenty of hiding spaces. Newbie pleco owner here. I bought one albino bristle nose and one common black pleco with lighter stripes. I never guessed that they could or would breed but alas, I have 2 clutches of fry. First batch produced five.
They are eating tons, I add algae tabs and carnivore tabs as they need. What do I do with all of these mixed breed fish? Hi Judy, your tank is way too small for those fish. They should really be in a 30 or 40 gallon tank. I currently have one half moon male betta fish I want to get a female bristle since I just moved my betta to a bigger tank to keep the tank clean.
Hi Misha, you could try getting another fish in a tank just next to him and watch to see if he flares, however the only true way to tell will be to add another fish. Just make sure you have another tank on standby. I have four tanks three of which breed albino long-finned bushy nose plecos. The mama and papa are in a gallon tank. When my babies are big enough I take them to the pet store to trade for dog food.
My plecos support my dogs. They are the most beautiful things. They remind me of mermaids. My albino has bred with a camo pleco and I get some really interesting variations color-wise.
I feed them wafers and bloodworms and a good quality fish food. When the babies are born, I suck them out with a sucker and put them into the smaller tank to let them grow. Sometimes they get up into my filter but as I clean my tanks regularly I just strain the water through a net and put them back in the aquarium.
They seem to do fine. Not sure how long they breed so I decided to keep one of the most beautiful long-finned plecos and a hearty male in my other tank. For an novice, I have had pretty good luck. They are a very happy and healthy couple, the only issue i have with them is that they wont stop breading, in the 12 months they have been together they have bread on average once every 2 months, i have been struggling to provide homes for the babies.
I have a brown bristlenose pleco and an albino, had them for over 6 months maybe a year, and one day the Male brown was in the middle of the tank on the rocks and I noticed something orange under him. Then I realized it was a clutch of eggs! So I thought, I wonder why she laid them on the rocks? They both have their own separate caves where they hide most of the time. So I tried getting a cave to put them in while he was away I scared him I guess and I carefully moved the egg clutch and some of the rocks underneath, they were so light and airy, kept floating away, but I finally got them settled and I walked away and he was back looking over the place they had been and finally finding them in the cave.
He made a big show of fanning and chasing other visitors then seemed to settle down, but after coming back by in about an hour he had moved them out of the cave! So I thought, what is the problem? I was back a couple of hours later and he had moved them next to his cave! After another couple hours he had them right back where they were to begin with! So I let him alone!
He was taking care of them and I figured I see what happened. I checked on them in the morning and there he was still hovering and fanning but out in the open! That afternoon they started hatching, within 2 hours it seemed they were done and most of them on the glass next to where they hatched! I wondered if they would make it through the night. Next morning they were still there in 2 bunches up in the upper corner of the tank still in the same general area and he was down in the corner fanning away!
I think there might have been a couple not yet hatched. I took a picture of both corners and counted 60 little wigglers! Later that day they moved down to the corner with dad, although there were a couple of defiant rebels across the tank near the heater! It mostly remained that way for a week, by which time more and more ventured off on their own leaving a couple of siblings to crawl all over dad and clean his bristles, which he flinched a few times!
Today I counted about 25 crawling around the glass and several crawling around the rocks and driftwood, he seems to have joined them in that corner near the heater most of the time but he is really more active now. I still wonder if she laid them in the cave and he moved them out or why she would lay them out in the open? They were both in his cave several times during the time they were here 6 months or more but not really lately, she stays in hers and he in his!
I have just had surprise baby plecs, 4 currently. What size should they get to before they are re-introduced to the main tank.
Holy cats! Yesterday, I woke up to find what appears to be 1 albino baby bristlenose. Today, I find a baby black one. What are the chances of this bit of joy?! They are both in a baby net breeding holder placed in the tank I found them in. Will they survive in there? I also have the 2 BN adults but no clue where they laid their eggs.
Do the eggs typically hatch a few daily or all at once? Are Bristlenose Pleco eggs safe in a 35 gallon tank with 10 Guppies and lots of hideing places?? We recently did a complete water change and clean of our gall aquarium.
Soon after all our bristlenoses started to die. There were 11, some of them up to 5 years old. If the problem remains, use anti-fungal medication. There will be no pineconing. However, there are some signs like loss of coloration and bloating.
Regulating their diet and feeding quality food can also come in handy. Fin rot in Bristlenose Plecos is not that common, but it occurs. You may not notice it at the very beginning, but soon you will notice disappearing Pleco fins. It will look like the fins are slowly melting. It usually occurs due to low water quality, and you can prevent it with proper cleaning.
Using tetracycline can also help with it. Popeye is rare not just in Plecos but in any type of freshwater fish. It occurs due to inferior quality of water and bacterial infection. Sometimes the bacteria will also cause erosion in the head area. It is called the head in the hole infection. Treating these diseases is tricky as you never know the exact cause.
So, if you see it, try using antibiotics and balance nutrition intake. If you have activated carbon in a filter or tank, remove it. Overexposure to carbon contributes to the problem. Basically, a proper diet and clean water parameters are the utmost requirements to ensure the health of your Bristlenose Pleco fish.
The following trick can come in handy for this part. So, if you are planning to keep them, go ahead. Just maintain the water quality, feed them regularly, and you can expect the fish to live a really long life. Of all bottom-dwelling fish kept by hobbyist, bristlenose pleco are some of the smallest species , which makes them ideal for beginners aquarist with tiny starter tanks. But this does not mean they can only be kept by people without much experience or small tanks, definitely not.
Even seasoned aquarists with bigger tanks can maintain them, especially, where they need algae-eaters. Bristlenose pleco make an ideal alternative for big algae-eating fish like Siamese and Chinese algae eaters, particularly in aquariums, stocked almost to the maximum. Overall, bristlenose plecos kept in home aquariums grow to between 3 and 6 inches, with even the biggest fish maxing out at 6'5 inches.
As such, they will go in a tank even as little as 20 gallons, though 30 gallons is recommended. Please read on. Over and above their small size, bristlenose plecos are also easy to maintain and breed in captivity.
You only need to keep a breeding pair together and provide them with a cave and food, and they will do the rest on their own. A lot of plants are highly recommended to replicate their wild environment in the Amazon river basin. Usually, the fry will feed on the egg sac for the first few hours to days of their life, then slowly move on to feeding on soft vegetables like cucumber.
When the bristlenose pleco babies reach to between 2 and 3 inches at 6 months or so, they usually are ready to breed. At this point, males will have developed bristles and also tend to a little bigger as they grow faster than females. They can also become territorial and aggressive during breeding or over food. Look, although there are risks, the vast majority of hobbyists have only had positive experience with their plecos. Bristlenose Plecos are bottom-feeding fish and are mostly vegetarian.
They love plant-based foods that sink to the bottom of their tanks and are used to scooping up foods from the bottoms of riverbeds in the wild.
Anything green, from cucumber to romaine lettuce, will provide your fish with a tasty snack packed full of nutrients. It is key to ensure any leftovers are removed within a day of feeding.
Bristlenoses do require a large amount of fiber in their diets to remain healthy. Driftwood can make for an excellent source of fiber and is useful to keep in your tank as a backup. However, providing that they are consuming a regular supply of vegetables, your fish will be getting enough.
This will comprise a large part of their diets. In between replacing your wafers, it is wise to provide your Bristlenose with a constantly supply of a nutritious fresh vegetable, like zucchini. In order to maximise your chances of a successful breed, you should keep a female to male ratio of Your hiding spots will encourage your Bristlenoses to breed, so long as they are large enough for two fish.
So long as all of their other needs are met, they can focus on mating without becoming preoccupied with anything else. Plecos have got a right to their privacy just like you. Alternatively, pre-made caves can be bought from pet shops. Rocks can also stuck together to make caves if you have a particular stylistic preference. Your cave should be large enough to house two Bristlenoses, but not so large that they feel insecure.
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