Male Bristlenose

[dazza2123]

Are male bristlenoses harder to come by than females.

I have had 4 females now. In 3 different tanks. & not one male.

Or is it just luck of the draw.

Been wanting a male for ages

Thanks

 

[xingumike]

Just bad luck

 

[toddnbecka]

I had the opposite problem for quite a while. BN's are few and far between at the LFS, and whenever I got a decent-sized one it turned out to be a male. I also bought several small ones on several occaisons, but they died off for unknown reasons (even in 3 different tanks!) I finally got a group of fry that lived, sold them off when they grew a bit, then got a second group to raise. I now have a young male guarding eggs; only took about 4-5 years to get there.

 

[TigerIssey]

They can die for a couple of reasons 1- insufficient types of food and 2- committing suicide by sleeping on the heater, I have lost a small bn and a beautiful snowball plec to heater suicides, you need a heater guard or at the very minimum put your heater vertical instead of horizontal or diagonal.

 

[matchstickman47]

They can die for a couple of reasons 1- insufficient types of food and 2- committing suicide by sleeping on the heater, I have lost a small bn and a beautiful snowball plec to heater suicides, you need a heater guard or at the very minimum put your heater vertical instead of horizontal or diagonal.

wierd my heater is in my filter but that dont stop em the little uns jumped into it so when i cleaned it i got a suprise but dont worry there fine lol

They can die for a couple of reasons 1- insufficient types of food and 2- committing suicide by sleeping on the heater, I have lost a small bn and a beautiful snowball plec to heater suicides, you need a heater guard or at the very minimum put your heater vertical instead of horizontal or diagonal.

wierd my heater is in my filter but that dont stop em the little uns jumped into it so when i cleaned it i got a suprise but dont worry there fine lol

 

[rocknurworld2006]

pm'd

 

[matchstickman47]

pmd?

 

[xingumike]

what happened to this sub forum?!?!?

tigerissey, what are you on about?

the other threads are populated with illiterate and ridiculous postings, its becoming a joke

 

[matchstickman47]

dont swear its not nice and there not pointles they just spin out n it interest more people
if you had studied genetics in school you would know that most organisms have a fifty fifty chance of male of female to promote survival duh!

 

[xingumike]

So what does that have to do with the original question? DF

 

[matchstickman47]

So what does that have to do with the original question? DF

why do you care

 

[calsonic]

dont swear its not nice and there not pointles they just spin out n it interest more people
if you had studied genetics in school you would know that most organisms have a fifty fifty chance of male of female to promote survival duh!

im confused how did you go from mysterious bn suicide/death to genetics?

 

[matchstickman47]

the guy at the top is talking about wich is more likely males of females im merly stcking to his or hers question duh n i didnt bring up suicidle fish, they dont have a death wish they are merly stupid

 

[xingumike]

how did we go from 'are males harder to come by than females?' to this

answer - TROLL

 

[rocknurworld2006]

what happened to this sub forum?!?!?

tigerissey, what are you on about?

the other threads are populated with illiterate and ridiculous postings, its becoming a joke

please do not swear , this is a family forum!

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