New BN fry pics

The fry are about 6cm including tail now. There starting to get proper little bristles now.

Hey, thats good to hear. You should be able to sell some now or soon.

Hopefully. Im going to swallow aquatics on sunday. They said i can have £1 each for them so im going to give them a call in the next few days and see how many they want.

What do mean ask how many! You tell them how many they're going to take! lol!

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

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.