tukituki Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Do you think it would be ok to put a really really big male bristlenose (at least 20cms) in with 6 jewels? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 It would be ok provided - 1. you have a large enough tank, (how large is your tank?) 2. there are plenty of caves & hiding spots to accommodate all the jewels and the BN, 3. you bear in mind that jewels get very very nasty when it comes for time to breed. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 3. you bear in mind that jewels get very very nasty when it comes for time to breed. HTH Which, in my experience, they are very enthusiastic about. The handful I had resulted in something like 10 pairs...And they were ALL FEMALE. Guess they're very open minded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Do you think it would be ok to put a really really big male bristlenose (at least 20cms) in with 6 jewels? Thanks. Have you got a picture? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tukituki Posted October 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Thanks everyone. The tank is our largest of 3 and is about 150L. We just swapped 2 tanks around as we never expected our newly arrived jewels to be so big, and also never expected the bristlenose we got with new (2nd hand) tank to be so big either. The jewels needed the biggest tank. Plenty of hiding spots. Big bn is a lovely fish but dwarfs our other adult bristlenoses, I'd get him out if the jewels breed. 2 female jewels will pair off? My jewels are pretty placid so far, and 2 7-8cm bn that we accidently left during the swap survived the night with the cichlids but literally jumped into the net when i moved them this morning! picture of what rabbit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcculloch Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 I think he was after a picture of the male bristlenose In question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tukituki Posted October 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 i did take photos of him but they look awful. i have never been good at taking photos of fish. dogs and cats and humans fine, fish impossible for me! i'm not sure if all the male bristlenose we've had before are all really small, but this fish is really big, double the size of a normal 3-4year old male. he's cool though. we still can't quite decide whether or not to put him with the cichlids. we don't want him to get hurt but its a bit of a squeeze in the slightly smaller tank now we've done the swap. plus our male bn we've had for years successfully breeds in the tank this big boy is now in. he is bigger than the cichlids, but they, like many others have said, are like bulldogs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-town... Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 is it definatly a bristlenose and not just a pleco? I too would like to see some pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tukituki Posted October 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 I have been wondering but he has the full on bristles, do plecos have them? His bristles do look a little different to our other gba & brown bn males though. I'll try and take a photo later today, i'll take him out of the tank for a few seconds to do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tukituki Posted October 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Here is a photo I didn't realise I had! My other half must have taken this as we were doing the tank swap the other day. You can see the big guy to the left, and an adult male gba just below him, as well as adult female that is about 3-4years old to the right (there are 2 this age in the bucket). Is he a pleco or a seriously big bristlenose?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 That's definitely a bristlenose. Doesn't look unusually large for an adult male. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-town... Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 thats a pretty big looking bristlenose to me! how old is he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tukituki Posted October 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 He's 3 times the size of my other males! i have been told he is 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 thats a pretty big looking bristlenose to me! how old is he? He's big, but he's not freakishly big. I have two that look roughly that size right now. Good conditions and good feeding from birth most should be that kind of size in 3-4 years. Many get stunted, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tukituki Posted October 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 all off my other bn's must be dwarfs then! good to hear the big guy's not a pleco. we can't bring ourselves to put him in with the jewels so he'll stay put for now, he hides in his cave most of the time. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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