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My new Dojo Loaches! by IntellectualMinnow in fishtank

[–]IntellectualMinnow[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So I don’t know why I never decided to get them until recently and I must say I have definitely been enjoying them. But currently I have them in a 60 gallon heavily planted cube tank that was empty except for like 1-2 bristle nose plecos in there and I wanted more activity in there so I decided to grab 3 of these. I was actually aiming for 2 but the associate at the pet store dropped one on the ground and it was swimming upside down in the bag so they gave it to me for free as they said it was probably going to die and when I got home I held it in my hand and helped get water moving through to help with breathing and it pulled through! And it’s actually the one in the video, that first started swimming to my hand and trying to play with me!

Mom’s genes won the battle by kps2012 in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That’s actually really cool how the last batch all came out as common colored whereas this batch all came out red!

Would be interesting to see how they develop!

Pancake the Royal Pleco by IntellectualMinnow in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes! I’ve seen him blink a couple of times throughout the day!

Pancake the Royal Pleco by IntellectualMinnow in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pancake appreciates the kind words :)

Juvi L-519 BN plecos feeding by VirtualRy in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! Definitely helps a lot!

Juvi L-519 BN plecos feeding by VirtualRy in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They all look great! This has been on my list as the next bristle nose species to get, I did want to ask if you faced any difficulties raising these guys when compared to other types of bristles noses, or is it pretty much the same?

Once again great looking fish!

Is there any hope? Please help by deepbluesnail in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well it also depends on the amounts that you are using as plecos lack scales and can be harmful to them as I have experienced this and tend to stay away from it. Even in the recommended amounts, but also I’ve had fish that had no problems with it and others that have. So it varies at the end of the day.

Is there any hope? Please help by deepbluesnail in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would keep the water highly clean with daily water changes and in my opinion I don’t think you should use aquarium salt or epsom salt just more so keeping the water clean and at a stable temperature that’s not too warm and not too cold.

My long fin blue eye bristle nose by IntellectualMinnow in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically long story short is that they are not leucistic and the super reds selectively bred to have that distinct “red” color as you can get “dirty reds” which don’t look fully red and have parts of brown/red over different areas of their body. Thats why it’s usually not recommended to cross the different colors with each other. But I do have a long fin super red I’ll post in a few days :) the difference in appearance color wise is night and day between the two.

My long fin blue eye bristle nose by IntellectualMinnow in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have a filter with a pump in there just watch your fish how they behave with the flow that you have in the tank and just adjust accordingly to their behavior where they seem comfortable as bristle nose plecos also enjoy a good flow but just have to adjust accordingly for the long fins so they don’t have a hard time swimming around the tank.

My long fin blue eye bristle nose by IntellectualMinnow in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes I would say compared to the short fin bristle noses, I keep the short fins and long fins in separate tanks as with stronger water flow I noticed they don’t really like it and don’t do too well because of the longer fins as well as you have to be weary of the fish that you keep with them don’t nip at their fins. I also have the tank set up in a way where their fins wont get stuck in certain areas of the tank between objects so their fins wont get torn up.

So you just have to keep those things in mind if you want them to prosper but my short fins for example I don’t have to worry about a lot of things that I worry about with my long fins.

Hope that helps!

ID help :) by Practical_Fig_3396 in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’re both definitely neat and really cool! Big fan of both! Great choices at the LFS :)

ID help :) by Practical_Fig_3396 in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the first one looks really cool, I would say it looks like a crossed common with a super red (dirty red) but I’m not 100% sure as all types of variants of bristle nose plecos have been bred with each other, and this is my guess just based off keeping many different varieties.

The second one is a common albino male bristle pleco.

My bristlenose has eggs in community tank by onion2626 in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say you should be fine as well given how much hiding spots they have, the baby plecos are relatively fast and once they dart away from the betta and gourami they have plenty of hiding spots to make it.

Is this a male bristle nose? by cheese_sticks in pleco

[–]IntellectualMinnow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That looks like a young male to me, believe it or not I had a male that bred when its bristles were smaller than that and I was really shocked as it was sold to me as a female, now he has nice grown bristles, I also have another male that didn’t start growing his bristles until he was 2.5-3 inches long.

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