New bristlenose

susankat · 03-20-2011, 12:32 AM

Thursday I got my trio of calico longfin bristlenose in the mail. Here's a couple of pics, 2 females and a male.

Just arrived still in the water they were bagged in.

In the 220

tinman · 03-20-2011, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by susankat

Thursday I got my trio of calico longfin bristlenose in the mail. Here's a couple of pics, 2 females and a male.

Just arrived still in the water they were bagged in.

In the 220

WOW

snail · 03-21-2011, 03:00 PM

Do you plan on breeding them? Very interesting looking.

M1ster Stanl3y · 03-21-2011, 03:04 PM

susan do you have any experience with butterfly plecos?

susankat · 03-21-2011, 04:22 PM

Snail; yes I plan on breeding them when they are old enough.

Stanl3y; I have never kept butterfly plecos but a friend of mine has and this is what she says about them.

D. brachyura will thrive in a tank where the landscape is designed to take full advantage of a brisk water current. A shady, lagoon-like set-up with a mysterious structure of overhanging wood, and flat rocks on soft fine sand is ideal. Plants are not required, but the landscape should be intricate and offer many choices for seclusion. D. brachyura loves to have a dark corner to get into. If plants are used, large leafed plants, such as giant Anubias, are ideal. That said about seclusion, D. brachyura is a fairly active fish for a pleco, and may be seen at any time of the day or night. I would characterize my particular specimen as "curious" - as soon as there is a water disturbance of any kind, the brachy assumes this means food and out he comes, no matter where he was or what he was doing. In a very densely planted tank, they seem to appear out of nowhere!

They are omnivores and will eat just about anything.

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