hi i'm just wondering how to get hold of a list of the breeder contacts and what breeds they ......breed. Of course!!

so any help would be appreciative

I think there is a list of breeders from the different fish clubs, but not all people who breed fish are on it. I breed Golden Blackeyed Ancistrus (Bristlenose) but i'm not on any list.

I Breed GBA's aswell and L52(butterfly pleco) and Banded whiptails and hopefully twigs and another sp of pleco soon aswell.Rob who is on this site breeds a lot of plecos

cheers Kyle

I've just started breeding the commen b/n again and I also breed snowflake b/n L059.

thanks everyone. how often do they all spawn? and what kind of prices are they as none of them you ever see in pet shops.

My GBA spawn around every 3 weeks, i sell them for $15 which for the same size (50mm) in LFS are around $34.95, seen them for $24.95 (30mm) at LFS and adults are $64.95

GBA are $145 in Animates, go figure

Just to let everyone know Albino Bristlenose have just come into the country and will be in shops at around $60-$80 each at 4cm

cheers Kyle

what does a snowflake bn look like? It sounds nice.

Cheers

Jude

hey are nice. at a glance they look like a normal brissle but when you look close they have a light brown sptty pattern over them.

I have two mtto grosso brissles which are similar but have a more dominent spot.

just a query GBA = golden briislenose?

anyone able to see if rob can comment on this topic??

don't worry about the query i looked up the page!! silly me

Jammos

We can get GBAs in for you, young or adult. they are very cool, but dont come cheap through Animates. i have three here, am hoping i will have a pair, currently looks like i have one male and two females, which is great!!!

how are the knife fish??

plecs

all good both got a log each! i thought i would post this out of interest to see what is actually being breed in nz.

time will tell....

GBA= Golden Blackeyed Ancistrus, much cheaper in Auckland

Is $145 at Animates an adult?

yes, the 1 in there at the mo is almost full sized female

the small GBAs at Animates are about $80 i think. they can order them in for you.

plecs

I've had some success with plecs - have in the past successfully bred Spotted clown plecos (Peckoltia brevis), Butterfly plecs (L52) - hoping to get them going again, banded whips (Rineloricaria cf eingenmanni), common ancistrus (which the federation lists as Ancistrus lineolatus - haven't looked into it to see if this is correct), Colombian plecos (Loricaria sp "Colombia") - which are kind of cool in that they're lip-brooders.

In the close but no cigar catergory (ie spawned, hatched, died) are Crocodile cats (Rineloricaria lancelota ?), Twig cats (Farlowella sp.), Royal whiptails (Sturisoma panamensis) and Rubber lipped plecos (Chaetostoma cf thomsoni).

had any sucesses lately rob?

Rob ,

do you have the gold nugget pleco, with intentions to breed?

Stu - I don't have any gold nugget plecos.

Jammos - I'm not really attempting much with Plecos at the moment, there's some corys I'd like to get going and also some small rasboras - but finding time is difficult.

ok thankyou for answering

I have a pair of the common brown bristle nose. They have just spawned and much to my amazement some of the young are brown and others are Golden Black eyed, about 20 of them.

I guess this is all good considering what you are saying about the golden ones price wise.

If I was selling them to a shop what price should I expect to get and the same if I sold them through Trademe.

How old are the fry?

As far as i know it's impossible for normal b/nose to have GBA.

If per chance they are they have come down a lot now, a very well known LFS in Mt Eden has small ones for $19.95 which is the cheapest i have seen them in a lfs.

Pricing is up to you really.

the one in Animates Wellington when i went in a couple of weeks ago was a full size male , maybe they sold him now got a female ?

The fry are only two weeks old.

I have enquired at the shop I got the parents from and they tell me when they bred the parents they had a yellow one in the tank and what I have is more than like why I have some brown and some yellow.

It will be interesting to see what they turn out like as they get older.