I snapped a few shots of the plecs in my 55gal tank in my bedroom....and before anyone gets excited, I know that there are WAY too many in there...which of course keeps me cleaning my tanks all the time...

My question is...in the photos are two big spotted guys. They are each about 7-8" long. How ...

I didn't find the pic on that site, but I would guess you got a flathead, not a bullhead. Here (Iowa) it's not unusual for people to pull HUGE flatheads out of the river. While fishing one night, I watched a guy for about 3 hours drag in a big flathead....67 pounder! We all took pictures of it and ...

I have 2 of these - both males (I think) and they get to be a nice size and they are very cool to watch - mine swim all over the tank, top to bottom.

But when do fry start to get their bristles? I posted some time ago that I had my first batch of longfin BN fry....which soon followed with another group. Unfortunately, I had some death, but I have 36 little guys - all in various sizes - would never have guessed it was two batches - looks more like ...

I have been feeding mine kelp discs, veggie discs, fresh zuchini, and a few frozen peas in there from time to time (if I happen to be given them to the other fish in my tanks).

They are all thriving quite well - so far!

I don't know what this guy is. He doesn't grow very fast whatever he is. He's about 4" long now.

Any ideas?

Here one of the Columbian Sailfins that is in the same tank and the mommy veil tail bristlenose.

Here are a bunch of pictures of my guy....

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As promised - here are pictures!

First...the new guys....this is in a bucket (used to transport them to the isolation tank) with the cave thing they were in. There were only 12 fry....and they are little wigglers - so that means the other fish obviously ate them....

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thanks for the tips butterfly.

When I get home tonight I'm going to set up a 10 gallon tank (which I know I can't put anyone in it for a bit) to have on "stand by" because it seems I have a very active mating pair - so this whole fry thing will be ongoing unless I separate them.

I have only 16 or ...

If they are still with yolk sacks - should I wait to move them?

My guy's head is more like this one:
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The picture in the second row, first picture on the left - a close up of a head - that shows what my guy's head is like with that "scale" look on the back of his head.

But he is black ...

The last time I moved the fry (my first group) they were already starting to wander around inside the cave. These little guys are still in a little pile way in the top of the cave where they were hatched. I'll get a picture of them tonight....maybe they aren't even all hatched? I just saw one little ...

I don't need to take the male with? Last time I loved the others, I moved the babies in the rock with the male still in it. Put everyone in the isolation tank and then got babies all out and put the rock back in the big tank and the male in the big tank and put the rock right back where it was ...

When I get home from work then I'll go move them....should I leave the male with them until they start coming out of the cave on their own?

THose pictures don't quite look like my guy....I'll take pictures of him tonight and post them. My guy is quite different than those in the pictures. He does have the spiney things all over his body though, but his head very different looking......

If he really is an Adontis.....once we get him ...

THat new guy that I'm trying to identify is in there (what was told to me was an adontis). Also a chocolate albino plec, albino plec, and 2 columbian sailfin plecs. Other fishies are various rainbows (turquoise, red, bosnia, etc), few blue tetras, and a few cardinal tetras. There are 3 corys still ...

I had posted a while back that my longfin bristlenose had their first fry! Out of the 36 - 17 are still alive and doing well. They are about 1 1/4" long now. When do they no longer need to be in an isolation tank and go back in the big tanks?

AND THEN....last night my longfin male bristlenose was ...

I bought a plec the other day at my local LFS. He was just too cool to leave there...so I bought him.

He's black with little white spots all over, LONG lyre tail. They had him marked as an Adontis - but I can't find anything in the cat-elog under that name.

He has a very strang head - there is an ...

Thanks for that Mats - I was actually more hoping for LFS credit. :-) Not like they won't get my money anyway! LOL

I have another LFS that has a WONDERFUL selection of "odd" and not so common plecs and they always sell really fast. I am going to that store tonight - so I was going to talk to the ...

I was in my LFS and I mentioned to them that my longfin bristlenose bred and I now have 34 fry (from what I can count - little guys move fast!). They are interested in buying them from me, as obviously I don't need 34 more plecs. LOL

I know in my area, the longfine bristlenose adults sell for ...

I was at my local LFS yesterday - buying kelp pellets for my new longfin bristlenose fry...and he had gotten some new plecs in.

One he had advertised as a Peppermint. I have one Peppermint and he's black with bigger white spots. But this guy was more dark grey, not quite black (I realize they can ...

Thanks!

The female is about 8 months old or so and I have had the male maybe 6 months. I would say she is young. She was only about 2.5" in body length (not counting those long fins) when I got her, but the male appears to be a mature adult. Maybe more next time!

All the little guys are out of the ...

I have two long fin plecos. One is CLEARLY a bristlenose, and I thought was a male. The other nas no bristles whatsoever, so I thought at first it was a female (it was young when I got it but as it got older it never developed bristles, so I assumed it was just a long fin).

Anyhow - while cleaning ...

I had an albino longfin BN female and a "normal" BN male (normal brown/grey color). They did breed and there were fry, but unfortunately, not knowing I had a male/female at the time, the other fish ate the fry. :-(

I do have a "normal" colored BN longfin - actually 2. One is a male and one is a ...

Yes Mats - that's the ones! I have 2. If I take good pictures of them, can you tell? I suspect I have 2 males, but not sure.

I have 2 beautiful and larger Para Plecos (one is about 6" and the other about 7.5"). Does anyone know how to sex them?

Most of my tanks are tetra tanks. And I have a HUGE variety of plecos in all my tanks. None of my plecs seem to bother any of my fish. I do have problems from time to time with my clown loaches chasing my rainbows, but other than that, they all live well together.

I have pictures of my plecs on my ...

I'll get you guys pictures for sure - I think the ones I took last night are pretty good as far as color goes (especially for the black guy with spots).

For the white guy with spots - he is more of a cream - not grey at all. He's a weirdo. I have never seen anything like him.

I was at my local fishy store (I found a new one that has HUNDREDS of tanks of nifty fishies). Anyway....I bought these two plecos, which they idenified one as a "Flat Head White Spot Pleco" and the other as a "White Spot Pleco".

I'll get pictures posted tonight...but....the "flathead" one doesn't ...