New BN fry pics

F.Banks wrote:What do mean ask how many! You tell them how many they're going to take! lol!

Haha im nice like that.

Nataliey wrote:You got any photos of them kiz now they are bigger?

Ill try and get some later

Cant wait

Ive got a few pics. None of them are very good they look alot better in person and you cant see the bristles at all in the pics there only about 1/2 mm long,

Thats okay, just like to see

Ok uploading them now might take a few mins.

The biggest one at the front of this pic seems to be the dominate one hes the biggest and has the biggest bristles and keeps fighting with the other males. Its quite funny because they just slap each other with there tails.
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Sorry about the poor pics

They are fab, they've grown well...so when fully grown how big does a bristlenose grow to in length...the biggest they can get?

The common bristlenose/ancistrus cirrhosus will get to about 5". Females tend to be a bit bigger and chunkier. ancistrus cirrhosus come in a few different colors brown, albino, red, piebald and you can also get them in longfin.

I took a little video of them feeding

Oh they are soooo cute

Yeah. I just cant wait till i get some albino fry. The albino female is getting huge but she just wont lay them lol

I looked at the albino bristlenoses and they look a bit creepy, i may try and get one for my 95 litre tank if i decide to turn into a community...how can i tell between male and female other than size. The long finned ones are very nice too.

The males will get huge bristles hence the name bristlenose. The male will get long ones that cover the hole nose where and the females will have no bristles or they will have small little ones just around the tip of the nose.

the male is the one up at the top and the one at the bottom is a young female
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Heres a old pic of my fully grown brown female that had all the babies
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And the male guarding the eggs
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The albino longfin ones do look stunning but im not sure how the female bettas would take to them. The red ones are amazing aswell but they cost £20-30 each . In a 90L if the only other bottom dwellers where corys i think you could get away with a pair (1male 1female). Ive got a care sheet that i write on them on the comp around my nan and grandads next time im around there ill PM you it.

I see thats pretty easy to tell thedifference, so obvious in your photos, thanks glad i asked (feel silly sometimes,lol!)

Haha. theres nothing to feel silly about there one of the only types that you can sex other than females will be chunkier. Remember my male is an almost fully grown adult. The ones you get a LFS are normally 1-2" and impossible to definitely sex because at that age ones with out bristles could be female or less developed males so you can tell. Its best to get 4-5 and grow them out and wait for 2 to pair up. Ones they get 2-3" its fairly easy. If they have bristles going from up near there eyes down to the lip there defiantly male where as in theres just a few around the lip then they could be young males or just bristley female haha.

Going to take a proper look next time i go to my lfs now i know, hehe!!

Sounds good. If your ever in thetford your welcome to have some of my fry .

Just wished i was in travelling distance i would've happily took one off your hands but 4hours is a little bit too far, lol!!!

You could make a day of it and go site seeing around Thetford. Thats wouldnt go to well though theres nothing here. Haha.

Well the albino male and brown female should have spawned a week or 2 ago now but the male seems to have turned his interests to the albino female whos getting huge. The last week hes been half cleaning out one of the coconut caves and he is spending alot of time with the albino female and ive seen then in the cave together a few times so hopefully ill get some albino fry soon.

There about 2 1/2" now and starting to bulk out a little. The male have about 4-5 1mm long bristles and a few of the fry are starting to loose there spots and turning a little piebald like there mum.

Well almost over night quite a few of the fry seem to have turned pie bald. Theres one male that must be about 3" including tail that had about 10 little bristles and amazing pie bald.