Thanks for the feedback guys,

It all depends on whether you want to be overrun with fry again
At the moment I'm happy that they're not spawning as I'm running out of tanks I can keep the babies in, but once the majority have grown and been moved on, I'd like them to start again!

some believe ...

I have a 2' x 1' x 15" high aquarium which contained four large bristlenose, 2 males & 2 females, despite the fairly cramped quarters all 4 seemed to co-exist quite happily. Every 4-6 weeks the smaller female would lay eggs in the larger male's cave. This was the only time when I saw any aggression ...

Further Update:
I now have in excess of 100 babies from this male, here are some better photos of both the male, and the female he has sucessfully bred with, as noted earlier, I believe both to be wild caught fish from Paraguay, and I'd be really grateful for any pointers as to a likely species ID ...

Little bit of an update.....

1. Checked with my supplier, and the fish was wild caught in Paraguay
2. We got another shipment from the same supplier, these were slightly smaller, and there are several males which look similar, but with less pronounced branching. This makes me think that it's not an ...

Hi Richard,
Thank you for the reply, I note
i'm not saying this is the one
but the fish you link to has very different bristles, on my fish each individual bristle has several distinct branches, and each of those branches has several further branches some of those evene seem to be branching.
By ...

Hello everyone,
As you can probably tell from my user name, my main interest is Angelfish, although I have been keeping all sorts of fish for over 40 years now, oh yes, and for a living I own an aquatic store!
In all that time I've never seen a bristlenose quite like this one...
http://i1213 ...