GBA Bristle Question

[Navarre]

catfish are not my thing

I have them in my tank to add a certain ...omph...but have not tried breeding them for years.

I have "normal" BNs where male has bristles and female mostly clean shaven but I also have a "pair" of GBA and both have Bristles. One has more and in a 'doubleish" row with many more bifications. The GBA have not produced where the "common" ones have.

So,,,,,

Do female GBA have Bristles?

Thanks in advance

Navarre

[kiwiplymouth]

I have never seen a female GBA with bristles yet.

I am happy to be proven wrong.

[SamH]

I believe that GBA's are just Golden Bristlenoses, a variation of the regular Bristlenose. I only own the regular brown type so I can't say for sure but I have a library book that shows them as the same species, just with different colouration.

So as far as my knowledge goes, big Bristles = Male, little/no Bristles = Female.

Hope that helps

[phoenix44]

well. you do get the odd hairy female (sorry french women).

not full on bristles, but more like stubble.

[MarkLB]

I'm breeding GBAs at the moment and most of my females have some very short stubble but nothing like the male has.

[kiwiplymouth]

Perhaps I should amend my statement.

Females may have one row of fine stubble across the top lip but nothing like other Ancistrus females.

I have 2 breeding pair of GBA and 1 Breeding pair of red eye GBA, all the females have no facial hair at all