Ancestrus

[Liquid skills]

Hi a quick question are all ancestrus (bristle nose things) speices able to breed together?

 

[xingumike]

do you mean hybridise across species but within genus?

theoretically yes, likely no.

 

[Liquid skills]

Yeh thanks mate just another question i have a female

Light brwn base colour with darker spots she was suppose to be a long finn bristlenose but shes different colours any ideas

I would get a pic but i dont seem able to upload mine are always to beig even with my my 1mp camera

 

[xingumike]

Upload it to photobucket then post here, alternatively email it to me mikerobson79 at hotmail.com and I'll do it for you

 

[Liquid skills]

Kul thank will do one

 

[xingumike]

It is not an Ancistrus, this is a common pleco, Pterygoplichthys pardalis.

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/_species.php?species_id=88

 

[helterskelter]

Most BN's you buy are the same species, so it should breed fine.
My parents longfin's have just started breeding and got their first fry at the weekend.

 

[xingumike]

Except it isn't a bristlenose.

I'd be having serious words with whoever sold it as one!

 

[helterskelter]

Oh did not know that pic was yours as posted by someone else.

Defo a common pleco, reaches 18" plus

 

[Liquid skills]

I took ur advise n had a word with swallow aquatics in essex they said to me its not our problem i should have known what it was even tho they told me it was an ancestrus GOD it angers me

 

[xingumike]

Retailer in it for the money shock horror

What size is your tank?

 

[Liquid skills]

Hi i unfort found out after taking it to my lfs in kesgrave that it was a leoperd print comon plec the biggest one of the commons so considering id have no room for it gave it to them it ket attackin my other fish i just wont to find a long finned bristle nose anyone no anywhere

Oh yeh to your question on tank size 3ft long by 1ft by 1ft

 

[helterskelter]

My parents long finned bristle nose has just breed for the first time, but you can find them quite easily for around £15 for 2" fish.

 

[Liquid skills]

Do you know anywhere in suffolk?

 

[helterskelter]

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