I love how you set up the caves for the ancistrus and a large apple snail moves in immediately. (I'm sure it was just a housewarming gift of vacuuming the new cave home. lol)
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I just started breeding them in July, I have commons and albinos. Though, I think the adult male I have is actually a blue eyed lemon, he is an albino with dark eyes. He was sold to me as an albino, so I'm not totally certain. His babies don't seem to carry the dark eyes so far that I've seen. Anyhow, they are a lot of fun to breed and seem to just keep breeding as often as they have a chance to!
when you have enough equipment and you provide good water and good food, ... well in that case it is easy to breed fish, even very easy. You don't have to change water chemistry like KH GH pH with a lot of fish. Just clean water. I breed a lot of fish from south america in hard water...Take your time, and i mean that in 2 ways : put enough time in it, and be patient, and you will be succesfull.
I'm so glad you posted this video. I've generally liked the golden algae eater simply because they are prettier than most plecos and didn't realize the ancistous bristlenose was so pretty. Thank you!
My Super Red pair is about the same size and they had a hatching about 3 weeks ago, they are so flipping cute....I gifted them to friends with mature tanks and they are thriving. I am lucky my LFS has agreed to take the future baby's and find them homes. Thank you so much for these videos!
v aquatics well as I live on the pacific coast and Rachel is closer and has a site set up for purchasing fish I would redirect you to her store for buying quality stock. As you can see they look phenomenal!
Thanks Rachel lots of really valuable information on these lovely fish. And timely, as I have several that are getting close to breeding size and I want to provide them with the optimal breeding environment! Thanks again!
Very interesting and informative. You present information in an easy to understand - and do - way. I really love getting and listening to you; learn so much
I love when my bristle nose plecos have babies. My female is a plain jane, my male is a beautiful albino sailfin. What they produce is always fun, you never know what you'll get.
this video is very helpful and exciting to watch, I'm thinking about selling some of my fish to make room for a Ancistrus and L397 pleco tank setup similar to yours
Hiya Rachael could you please do a video like this for otocinclus please as I'd love to know what plants and tank mates are best for breeding these little beauties.
I've been trying to breed my BN plecos for almost 2 years now, and just within this past 6 months I've had countless spawns. My males have 2 clutches of eggs as we speak! Other females are all trying to convince said occupied males to fan extra clutches each. 😅
Thanks Rachel! Do you know of any documentation outlining the genetic traits of the bristlenose pleco? Traits such as body color, eye color, fin, etc. and what is dominant, recessive, co-dom. etc?
Hello. I stumbled upon your video. Great information. Just the other day I found some some bristle nose eggs in the cave. I have a 10 gallon tank so I got a sponge filter and a heater. I used the substrate from my 125 gallon (where the eggs were living) the water. Set it up and the added the cave with the pleco who was in the tubes. My water looks cloudy this morning. Should I put a regular filter? I have a aqua clear 30 filter. Also what should I feed the babies once they hatch. I moved them because of the aftican cichlids in my 125 tank. Didn't want them to get eaten. Please any suggestions. Thanks in advance for any information.
I love watching you and your fish room! I heard you mention in a different video that you have turtles. Would you do a video about them? I'd love to see your set up and how you take care of them 🐢❤❤
Great video as always Rachel. I'm also trying to breed 183s. I have two mature pair and one sub adult in a 29gal and actually just discovered my first culch of eggs. They were sitting right outside of his face so I removed the eggs and placed them in a hang on breeder box with some Almond leaves and Java moss in the breeder box with the eggs. Is there anything else that I can do to help increase the chances that the eggs will successfully hatch out?
Dear Rachel, I would like to seek your advice on how to breed boraras species such as boraras maculatus.I'm wondering if you could tell me the plants that they like to spawn on and the water temperatures.....your response is highly appreciated.Thank you...^_^
Rachael: At the end of the video, you mention that the MTS population has soared. I have the same situation. What do you do with them? Do you consider them beneficial or pest? I love my plecos, and find them easy to breed and raise their fry. Thanks for the video.
Next time we make some, I will document it but when my husband built them for me years and years ago, I didn't do youtube, have or even know how to use the video function on my camera. They are pretty great, and extremely functional and i wouold love to share that info with you guys.
Hey, loved the video! Since your focusing on different catfish this month, any chance on doing a video on Rineloricaria fallax? (Hope thats the right name? only really familiar with the common german name hexenwels) They seem to sell them everywhere but I can only find very limited information on these guys, and I think they are absolutely beautiful fish.
I`ve got two, they seem perfectly happy, active and eating all the food they get. but am a little uncomfortable without knowing more about them. Also sexing them seems a bit difficult, though one seems wider than the other and also has some fine bristles.
I want to set up a long fin bristlenose breeding tank but locally cannot find any ceramic caves. Would they breed in PVC pipes? Would I need to block off one end of the pipe? I'm considering gluing a couple of pipes to the bottom of a slab of slate so they have the gaps between as well. Thank you!
I did a big tank cleaning like you did in this video and my bristle nose somehow ended up with what looks like a hemmorage spot on her tail. Is there anything I can do to help her?
I am starting a breeding project with some normal albinos. I can't wait to see some babies. I wish I could find some specialty colors here in Tennessee but have been unlucky. Let me know if you know of any places close to Knoxville where I could get my hands on some. Also I am a prof tattoo artist so if you have any you would like to trade for some tats I can come to you. Much love......
Hi Rachel, I know this is an old video so hoping you'll see this! I have a pair of peppermint bristle nose plecos housed with ember tetras, one spotted blue eye, cherry shrimp & pest (pond) snails which have been spawning & I've had several batches of fry. Unfortunately the fry never seem to survive. Can you suggest any reasons why this might be? They are in a shallow 90 litre tank with lots of plants & wood. Many thanks
Where can I buy those apple snails ? Do you sell them ? And I'm interested in the ancistrus fish also ? Just direct me to your online store please ? And perhaps ?
I have the albinos. One large male and 4 other juvenile possibly one other male. Will they utilize PVC as caves? It's what I have on hand, just wanted to know if it be worth my wild to use it for them or just buy the more textured caves?
pvc is fine, but for breeding plecos it should have a cap, as the male traps the female in the cave to deposit her eggs. If she can swim through, it may delay the breeding process
They were designed by me and custom fabricated by my husband, who is a gifted welder. They are in 4' modular sections, with stepped design holding 75g on the bottom, 55g in the middle and 20 longs on top. they have leveling feet as well.
I don’t get sponge filters. I get that they stop fry/small stuff from getting killed but doesn’t that also stop stuff that needs to be filtered, filtered?
They slowly suck water through the sponge. It will pull out small debris, but primarily the sponges work best for the biological filtration and fine polishing of the water. They will not filter out large debris. You can remove large debris via siphoning. Sponge filters work great but they do not produce a lot of water flow.
Do you ship fish too or just local purchasing? For example I live in Minnesota and I badly want some of these super red bns but I can never find them! :(
Hi Rachel, how many males can yo keep in one tank I at the moment only have a pair of bristlenose but I find that they are so shy I never see them unless I go looking for them, is this normal, I've only had them for about 3 weeks . Any help would be much appreciated thank you 😊
Totally normal. As long as you have at least as many caves/hides for each pleco, you can add more. With a pair, they WILL likely start breeding. Plecos are inherently less visible then midwater swimmers.
I found that having a single pair in a tank, they did nothing. So I bought a few more and kinda overcrowded it. Now everyone is in constant "breeding" mode. I had my first batch of babies within maybe 3 weeks of putting them all together.
Just subscribe to your Channel Ms. Rachel O'Leary love you Channel you're very smart person now do you sell those I wasn't paying attention very much if we do I got a albino bristlenose pleco how can you tell from a female or male but if you don't have time to answer the question I understand keep up the good work
Maybe you'd know.... Recently... my BN plecos have started dying. They're in a 125g tank. Used to have 9 and I'm now down to just 2. They got super bloated and then either died from stress? or some of their anus's actually burst which killed them obviously. I thought maybe it was the higher protein food I was giving the tank (not realizing that algae wafers are high protein), so thought that maybe they were getting super constipated, but then one after the other after the other died even after changing their food and giving them more veggies. The 2 remaining ones act totally normal, but so did most of the others until they suddenly got sick and died. I can't think of any other fish in the tank developing similar symptoms and dying like that so... /shrugs. I dunno. I haven't noticed signs of parasites like clear poop or anything and when they were first starting to get sick, I did do a parasite food treatment which obviously did nothing since more died anyway. Ever experience something like that? If so, clues on what caused it and what you did to prevent it?
I love how you set up the caves for the ancistrus and a large apple snail moves in immediately. (I'm sure it was just a housewarming gift of vacuuming the new cave home. lol)
they are the quality control inspectors
#bristlenose roll call! Who is breeding these guys? What color forms?
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My husband really wants to breed these guys, we're looking for some super red longfins, but no luck so far.
+Jacey Darling check with Kenneth wong in texas
Thanks for the lead
I just started breeding them in July, I have commons and albinos. Though, I think the adult male I have is actually a blue eyed lemon, he is an albino with dark eyes. He was sold to me as an albino, so I'm not totally certain. His babies don't seem to carry the dark eyes so far that I've seen.
Anyhow, they are a lot of fun to breed and seem to just keep breeding as often as they have a chance to!
Racqeal will you be getting any ASPIDORAS (six ray) catfish soon?? I wanted to buy a dozen, please let me know, thanx
This was a really good video. It's also really nice that you take the time to answer questions in the comments
I just got my first Ancistrus! A tiny baby albino. I love him/her! Great video Rachel.
You make everything look so easy 😊
And i really LOVE your T-Shirt
when you have enough equipment and you provide good water and good food, ... well in that case it is easy to breed fish, even very easy. You don't have to change water chemistry like KH GH pH with a lot of fish. Just clean water. I breed a lot of fish from south america in hard water...Take your time, and i mean that in 2 ways : put enough time in it, and be patient, and you will be succesfull.
Thank you for sharing this with us, for us to still find years later! - Little Bobby
Hi Rachel, WoW Excellent information you come with one topic and end up teaching loads more i just love watching your videos
I'm so glad you posted this video. I've generally liked the golden algae eater simply because they are prettier than most plecos and didn't realize the ancistous bristlenose was so pretty. Thank you!
Could you do a video on raising the fry?
My Super Red pair is about the same size and they had a hatching about 3 weeks ago, they are so flipping cute....I gifted them to friends with mature tanks and they are thriving. I am lucky my LFS has agreed to take the future baby's and find them homes. Thank you so much for these videos!
Janice Stp could I buy some super reds from you? I live in Florida and it's super hard to get my hands on them.
v aquatics well as I live on the pacific coast and Rachel is closer and has a site set up for purchasing fish I would redirect you to her store for buying quality stock. As you can see they look phenomenal!
Thanks Rachel lots of really valuable information on these lovely fish. And timely, as I have several that are getting close to breeding size and I want to provide them with the optimal breeding environment! Thanks again!
Awesome video. If I did what you just did, I'd have 25 gallons of water on the floor. You're a pro!
Very interesting and informative. You present information in an easy to understand - and do - way. I really love getting and listening to you; learn so much
+Taggie912 glad to hear it
I love when my bristle nose plecos have babies. My female is a plain jane, my male is a beautiful albino sailfin. What they produce is always fun, you never know what you'll get.
those are beautiful!?..... great job!...always interesting to see what your gonna do next!...
this video is very helpful and exciting to watch, I'm thinking about selling some of my fish to make room for a Ancistrus and L397 pleco tank setup similar to yours
Looks great to me 👍😊. I like the snail in one of the caves...lol😁
Great video, thanks for the tips. I will try some of them. Do you ever have a problem with the snails going in the caves?
Hiya Rachael could you please do a video like this for otocinclus please as I'd love to know what plants and tank mates are best for breeding these little beauties.
I've been trying to breed my BN plecos for almost 2 years now, and just within this past 6 months I've had countless spawns. My males have 2 clutches of eggs as we speak! Other females are all trying to convince said occupied males to fan extra clutches each. 😅
Thanks Rachel! Do you know of any documentation outlining the genetic traits of the bristlenose pleco? Traits such as body color, eye color, fin, etc. and what is dominant, recessive, co-dom. etc?
I would check planetcatfish.com
Hello. I stumbled upon your video. Great information. Just the other day I found some some bristle nose eggs in the cave. I have a 10 gallon tank so I got a sponge filter and a heater. I used the substrate from my 125 gallon (where the eggs were living) the water. Set it up and the added the cave with the pleco who was in the tubes. My water looks cloudy this morning. Should I put a regular filter? I have a aqua clear 30 filter. Also what should I feed the babies once they hatch. I moved them because of the aftican cichlids in my 125 tank. Didn't want them to get eaten.
Please any suggestions. Thanks in advance for any information.
Thank you! that was very helpful.
I love watching you and your fish room! I heard you mention in a different video that you have turtles. Would you do a video about them? I'd love to see your set up and how you take care of them 🐢❤❤
Thank you Rachel.
thank you for all the info. i was successful in breeding my albino bristle nose. however all the offspring are dark in color. is this normal?
Great video as always Rachel. I'm also trying to breed 183s. I have two mature pair and one sub adult in a 29gal and actually just discovered my first culch of eggs. They were sitting right outside of his face so I removed the eggs and placed them in a hang on breeder box with some Almond leaves and Java moss in the breeder box with the eggs. Is there anything else that I can do to help increase the chances that the eggs will successfully hatch out?
Super cool tank love jour vid's
Dear Rachel, I would like to seek your advice on how to breed boraras species such as boraras maculatus.I'm wondering if you could tell me the plants that they like to spawn on and the water temperatures.....your response is highly appreciated.Thank you...^_^
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Very Nice. I like the setup
Rachael:
At the end of the video, you mention that the MTS population has soared. I have the same situation. What do you do with them? Do you consider them beneficial or pest? I love my plecos, and find them easy to breed and raise their fry. Thanks for the video.
You said you are feeding them several times a day. What are you feeding them with? As always, very useful information
sera catfish pellets, repashy soilent green, and onip.
Hi Rachel how can you tell the difference between male and female in Golden Gouramis? thanks!
Hi do the snails not cause a problem when breeding
I'd love a video on your rack system
Next time we make some, I will document it but when my husband built them for me years and years ago, I didn't do youtube, have or even know how to use the video function on my camera. They are pretty great, and extremely functional and i wouold love to share that info with you guys.
Hello Rachel! Love your vids! What size Breeding Cave and Rapashy would you recommend for Super Red Bristle nose breeding tank? TIA
Rachel, can I set up a pair or trio of bristlenose in a ten gallon with some livebearers and snails?
Thanks Rachel, got a pair of long fin super reds I'm going to try to spawn!
very nice!
I've get some caves, and more plecos too!
gotta get some caves
what temp for breeding? Cool video
Hello do u still sell the super red Bristlenose
Hey, loved the video! Since your focusing on different catfish this month, any chance on doing a video on Rineloricaria fallax? (Hope thats the right name? only really familiar with the common german name hexenwels) They seem to sell them everywhere but I can only find very limited information on these guys, and I think they are absolutely beautiful fish.
I`ve got two, they seem perfectly happy, active and eating all the food they get. but am a little uncomfortable without knowing more about them. Also sexing them seems a bit difficult, though one seems wider than the other and also has some fine bristles.
I can! I have some here :) Neat fish!!
I want to set up a long fin bristlenose breeding tank but locally cannot find any ceramic caves. Would they breed in PVC pipes? Would I need to block off one end of the pipe? I'm considering gluing a couple of pipes to the bottom of a slab of slate so they have the gaps between as well. Thank you!
PVC can work, and yes, you would need to cap one side.
Rachel, what are all those plants that were just floating ?
I did a big tank cleaning like you did in this video and my bristle nose somehow ended up with what looks like a hemmorage spot on her tail. Is there anything I can do to help her?
I am starting a breeding project with some normal albinos. I can't wait to see some babies. I wish I could find some specialty colors here in Tennessee but have been unlucky. Let me know if you know of any places close to Knoxville where I could get my hands on some. Also I am a prof tattoo artist so if you have any you would like to trade for some tats I can come to you. Much love......
Great information keep it up.
This video rocks!
Arent any babies going to be sucked into the gravel bac when you were cleaning???
I watch and they move
Hi Rachel,
I know this is an old video so hoping you'll see this!
I have a pair of peppermint bristle nose plecos housed with ember tetras, one spotted blue eye, cherry shrimp & pest (pond) snails which have been spawning & I've had several batches of fry. Unfortunately the fry never seem to survive. Can you suggest any reasons why this might be?
They are in a shallow 90 litre tank with lots of plants & wood.
Many thanks
Where can I buy those apple snails ? Do you sell them ? And I'm interested in the ancistrus fish also ? Just direct me to your online store please ? And perhaps ?
I have the albinos. One large male and 4 other juvenile possibly one other male. Will they utilize PVC as caves? It's what I have on hand, just wanted to know if it be worth my wild to use it for them or just buy the more textured caves?
yes pvc is ok, it just has to have a closed end for the male to trap the female
Thanks Rachel. I just had my first batch hatch. What about PVC for caves?
pvc is fine, but for breeding plecos it should have a cap, as the male traps the female in the cave to deposit her eggs. If she can swim through, it may delay the breeding process
Thanks. wasnt sure if it needed to be a rough surface. I was going to pinch the end like you have in your caves.
Will these guys eat and destroy the plants in my aquarium or can I keep them full with zuchini and stuff?
tell me about your racking system. I dont want to use 2x4s again
They were designed by me and custom fabricated by my husband, who is a gifted welder. They are in 4' modular sections, with stepped design holding 75g on the bottom, 55g in the middle and 20 longs on top. they have leveling feet as well.
I don’t get sponge filters. I get that they stop fry/small stuff from getting killed but doesn’t that also stop stuff that needs to be filtered, filtered?
They slowly suck water through the sponge. It will pull out small debris, but primarily the sponges work best for the biological filtration and fine polishing of the water. They will not filter out large debris. You can remove large debris via siphoning. Sponge filters work great but they do not produce a lot of water flow.
I personnaly still want my video on Chilodus punctatus :D
Do you ship fish too or just local purchasing? For example I live in Minnesota and I badly want some of these super red bns but I can never find them! :(
I ship almost all year- right now its a bit too cold here, hopefully again soon
Rachel O'leary thank you! I can wait patiently! You are a huge encouragment to a future fish room just can't be Dustin's fish tanks hahaha!
Hi Rachel, how many males can yo keep in one tank I at the moment only have a pair of bristlenose but I find that they are so shy I never see them unless I go looking for them, is this normal, I've only had them for about 3 weeks . Any help would be much appreciated thank you 😊
Totally normal. As long as you have at least as many caves/hides for each pleco, you can add more. With a pair, they WILL likely start breeding. Plecos are inherently less visible then midwater swimmers.
Rachel O'leary thank you ever so much for your support and help you've got some amazing tanks 👍🏻😀
I found that having a single pair in a tank, they did nothing. So I bought a few more and kinda overcrowded it. Now everyone is in constant "breeding" mode. I had my first batch of babies within maybe 3 weeks of putting them all together.
What all do you feed the plecos? adults and babys? Just curious... and whats up with that snail taking over the pleco housing? LOL
+Nomad feeding video will be out hopefully next week
Just subscribe to your Channel Ms. Rachel O'Leary love you Channel you're very smart person now do you sell those I wasn't paying attention very much if we do I got a albino bristlenose pleco how can you tell from a female or male but if you don't have time to answer the question I understand keep up the good work
So beautiful 😍
Do you sell these super reds?
I think your great!!! ☺
My babies keep disappearing. Thanks Rachel, hope you and yours are doing fine.
They could be getting eaten or sucked through the filter
Do you remove the mom when eggs are in the tank
For ancistrus? Nope
How does ur wood float mine sinks
How can you tell the sex of Ancistrus ? I was given one and don't know if its a male or female.
By about 2 inches the males develop bristles all over their nose
OK now I know mine is a male. Thanks for the help
Maybe you'd know....
Recently... my BN plecos have started dying. They're in a 125g tank. Used to have 9 and I'm now down to just 2.
They got super bloated and then either died from stress? or some of their anus's actually burst which killed them obviously. I thought maybe it was the higher protein food I was giving the tank (not realizing that algae wafers are high protein), so thought that maybe they were getting super constipated, but then one after the other after the other died even after changing their food and giving them more veggies.
The 2 remaining ones act totally normal, but so did most of the others until they suddenly got sick and died.
I can't think of any other fish in the tank developing similar symptoms and dying like that so... /shrugs. I dunno. I haven't noticed signs of parasites like clear poop or anything and when they were first starting to get sick, I did do a parasite food treatment which obviously did nothing since more died anyway.
Ever experience something like that? If so, clues on what caused it and what you did to prevent it?
yours is big, round and beautiful!!
I mean the caves..
No matter what I do I cant get my water clear it makes me want to quit
ALL THOSE CAVES AND SHE DIDN'T INTEND TO BREED PLECOS??
It was a video on breeding plecos...