Bristlenose Plecos - EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW!
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Bristlenose plecos are one of the first fish I started to keep when I got back into the fish keeping hobby almost 4 years ago. They are a great addition to many tanks, come in a variety of colors, and can even be bred in your aquarium.
I have been asked many questions about keeping and breeding bushy nose plecos over the past few years and I decided to answer the most commons ones in this video for you.
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What Size Tank? - 1:58
Best Temperature? - 2:52
How Big Do They Get? - 3:51
Do They Eat Algae? - 4:33
What Do You Feed Them? - 5:12
Will They Eat My Plants? - 6:05
What Is Their Behavior Like? - 6:24
Are They Aggressive?/What Are Good Tank mates? - 6:52
How Do You Tell Male vs Female and How Old/Large Do They Have to Be? - 7:43
Can You Explain How Breeding Works? - 9:54
Where Can I Find a Pair/Do You Sell Pairs? - 11:36
How Many Eggs Do They Lay? - 14:05
Best Cave For Breeding? - 14:31
Do They Require Wood In Their Diet? - 15:06
Do You Remove The Babies From The Parents? - 15:53
How Do You Grow Them Quickly? - 17:17
Are The Different Colors The Same Fish?/Will They Breed Together? - 17:37
Tips For Keeping Them In a Community Setting? - 19:54
Tips For Keeping and Trying To Breed For Profit? - 20:34
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I included time stamps to the different questions in the description so you can jump to what you need. Please leave your questions about Native Fish collecting below and I will do my best to answer them in the next episode of "Everything You Want To Know". If I didn't cover your question about bristlenose plecos please feel free to leave it in the comments and I will try to answer it. You can check out the bristlenose care guide here; czcams.com/video/YO4kUhGgrho/video.html and a more in depth look at my breeding processes here; czcams.com/video/DkEGdpEmLPs/video.html
Wild Fish Tanks What is your favorite color variation of bristle nose plecos?
Connor Rothandler I think I would have to go with the marble calico. Longfin of the calico with the bright orange would be nice but not sure I’ve seen them. Usually the longfin calicos are kind of more brown and muddy
Cool
Connor Rothandler Do you have a favorite one?
Idk really know I just got my 1 pleco a albino bristle nose pleco for my 20 gal community tank. I’m pretty sure it’s a female. What is your favorite fish?
Easy fish to breed. Bred them when I was 15. I got a big male then 4 smaller females and they became a breeding group. I'm going to be keeping them again in a few months when my tank is mature enough. Cant bloody wait
Thanks for this. I'm refreshing my knowledge on these as I'm back to breeding them for the first time in 12 years.
Welcome back!!
I've been breeding brown, albino and super red plecos for about 3 years now. This video was excellent and hats off to you for sharing your knowledge. They'll keep you busy that's for sure.
I’ve watched a lot of your videos and this format really works. Very informative 👍 Great job
Great presentation of information! I am so glad I found your channel!
Great video. I like the style. Right to the info, no Bs, straight up knowledge.
bro i love this channel, straight to the point no "buy my merch" bullcrap, definetly sub!
Love your straight forwardness.
Great video! Loving this kind of content/series, great job as always Ryan 👍
Thanks for watching AJC, I appreciate your feedback
Love the video and like the Q&A segments. Your always a wealth of information to the Hobby.
Thanks Kevin. I appreciate your support and glad you enjoyed the video.
I've watched this video 10 times and learn something new every time
I wish every learning video was this good! thank you!
Great information Ryan!
Absolutely fantastic video! Was incredibly informative! I've had an albino bristlenose for about 8 months now and now I know he's a male! Thanks for the awesome info! Keep up the good work!
Awesome video ❤
I always love your content. This was a great and very informative video, especially with the tip on canned green beans!
Thank you, I appreciate the support! Your fish will thank you for the green beans! I just drain the can, you can rinse them if you want but I don’t even do that usually. A little goes a long way, start with just a little bit and see how long it takes for them to eat it. Just like any food if it’s still there after a day, take it out. Good luck!
Great video on a great fish. This format was really good.
Thank you Darrell, appreciate the feedback!
Thank you! Your video cleared up alot!! Very helpful 👌
This was an incredible video.
I love your videos you know your stuff ,I'm learning a lot from you getting into the fish breeding life. Thank you ,you are much appreciated
Glad they are helpful!
great video, i learned a lot, thank you for sharing
Thanks! Lots of great info!
I liked this videos format :) and learned a lot from it so thanks, i might have to get some and give it a shot
Thanks Sal, hope you’re doing well!
I really enjoyed this video very informative and well presented Thank you
Great video! We learned a lot! Thx!
Thanks brother. Really appreciate your approach, to the point and informative. Good teacher. 🤙
Heard you on a spotify podcast today on plecos. Thanks for all the info,bro. Very helpful.
Very good information!
Good information
Very good and very informative video on plecos. And the beard is looking good.!
Yes, I love your content!!
Thanks Sharron, I appreciate you watching!
Great video! Very informative!
Thank you, I appreciate you check it out
Good stuff. Thank you.
Thank you for your great information. Am soon getting a small group of super red long fins
Absolutely phenomenal video Ryan! Arguably the best fish video I have ever watched...I'd put it alongside the Aquarium Coop breeding for profit series. Your delivery is great and your honesty and overall detail is simply fantastic! Keep it up. Can't wait for the next one!
One question. When you water change on the fry grow out tanks, do you vacuum mulm from the bottom or simple drain water? If you vacuum mulm, how do you avoid sucking up any fry?
Thanks again and have a great day. Hope you are staying healthy.
Quite the compliment there, appreciate it. I vacuum out the mulm every 2 or 3 water changes depending on the levels. I use a siphon cap so no small fish get sucked up (you can also DIY some netting over it but make sure it’s not too fine). I also usually won’t suck out the mulm in a tank where I just put new babies in. Give them a chance to grow a bit and be more resilient. They are very very fragile when tiny
Great Video !!!
I like this style video👍🏼
❤ thank you
Great information.
Thank you James
Awesome video with alot of info perfect for me, got my 6 juveniles eating beans as I watch 😄
Good share...good information 😉👍
Love this fish! I have a brown and an albino male in separate tanks. I bought them when they were so tiny I barely saw them for months. They grew so fast especially the brown. He is now about 5 inches in less than a year and even though the albino is older he past in length and girth. The albino is about 5 inches too just not as thick. Enjoyed this video
Sounds like you got two cool fish, growth rates can depend on lots of factors like competition for food, water changes, and of course genetics. Thanks for checking out the video Brian.
i just jot a couple of bns that have bred for me and this video is very helpfull thank you
You breed some beautiful bristlenose plecos!!!🤩🤩🤩 Also love your videos!!!
Thank you, I appreciate the support!
Thank you. New to your site. Will be back.
Lookin good!
Thanks Jack! Hope you’re doing well
Totally dig the rap
I have the same type of pleoc in my African ciclid tank and they live great together
Thank sr. For the videos hi from Jacksonville Florida José Gómez
the beard looks like mine too much gray, good video man.
great vlideo...thank you
Joanne Cavan I appreciate you checking it out
I subscribed because of your cool cover photo on your channel.
Just had my first spawn👍
I miss you on this channel!!!! Hope you come back sometime!
Great video! I like the q&a format; it makes it very clear what info you are covering and holds you on topic. But don’t stop doing the off-the-cuff type video either. Looking forward to see what other projects your’e working on. I think your calicos are my favorite. Do you have any long fins?
Appreciate the feedback Garrett! I think I’ll do some more of these but will definitely do other style videos also. I’ll have a DIY video out for the first time in a while with the new rack system that will be coming. I’m lucky enough to be currently working with breeding groups of Japanese rice fish, some apsitos and some synodontis. Eggs everywhere, varying degrees of success with the fry however. Been filming it all and will eventually have videos on it. Unfortunately no longfin calicoes. Only super reds and lemon blue eye future breeders that I’m growing out. Most of the longfin calicoes I see out there aren’t the type of calico I like. I may make it a project to try to get some longfins out of my stock of calicoes. Hope all is well in your neck of the woods, are you staying busy with any projects yourself?
What a great video! I just started breeding bristle nose and I saw my male fanning in my community tanks so I moved him the tunnel and babies all into a 10 gallon grow out tank, when should I remove the day and put him back into the community tank
They also like to eat Indian Almond Leaves. Its anti bacterial and easier to eat than driftwood. But of course driftwood also.
Can you please leave the question on the phone screen longer because I am older.
Thanks for this very enjoyable, R.J.
the D shape cave thing is true for me, never had them breed in those water spikes, its very rare
I have a friend who has multiple pairs breeding in the water spike’s constantly
!00% absolutely loved the video. Anwered a lot of my questions and concerns with breeding the beautiful fish,
except one question, how often should the veggies be given to the babies and adults(if the frequency is different)
I have been breeding Mollys for years. Once I saw an Albino, I wanted all my 12 tanks to have one or two. Although, fish stores dont get them too often, or they do not live long after purhasing. One day, I saw a few babies. Not even knowing I had a male and female, how they bred, where the babies were laid, I was so excited, I pain stakenly, over 5 hours, removed 72, 1cm size babies, from a 55 gallon tank, with four 6" albino Rainbow Sharks. I was hooked. I watched a lot of videos on CZcams, talked to the fish stores I sell my Mollys, anyone n anywhere i could get more information on breeding them.
I must admit, after seeing this video of yours, I got more info than all the others combined. You are great, interesting, to the point, clear n concise.
Unfortunately, I have not had anymore eggs laid since then( 3 months ago). Ironically, I do nothing n have babies. Then I educate myself, purchased caves, incubator tanks, fed them veggies, did the freequent water changes, put in tanks with just 2 or 3 mollys, and no babies. Of the 72, 50 were sold recently. 6 died, 1 fell down the drain(I actually took the pipes part looking for him) I have the remaining 15. They are 3 to a 29gal tank, with a breeding pair of mollys and an adult female albino. I still only have the one male.
Any advice onwhat could be the reason no more have been spawned?
Lastly: Do you have any mature male Albino Bristle nose Plecos?
Swimmingly, Mary Pearson from Marys Mollys
nice tanks there :D
World Aquarium Singapore thank you!
Excellent video! Enjoyed it and tons of useful information. Where can we order juvenile fish from you?
Thanks for the info. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to put into a new aquarium I just planted. It is a 15 gallon extra high!! I have it planted with easy plants... Two different kinds of anubias, a little hair grass, and Amazon swords.I just wondered if a bristlenose would get too big for such a small surface area I also have driftwood, fluval stratum in the new set up. Right now the only thing that's in the tank is 3 albino Cory catfish until I can find some more and decide what else I'm going to put in there! Thanks for a great video. Stay Well.. much love from Portsmouth Virginia ✌️🙏👍
Thanks for checking out the video Mary. Sounds like a cool tank you have going. Bristlenose and albino Cory cats are compatible however they both are going to compete for valuable bottom space in your tank. Three is good but I would add three more albino cory cats to make a group of six and forgo the pleco since that would be a lot of fish on the bottom. If you really want a pleco I think you could get away with one in addition to the 3 cory cats. Especially since plecos don’t grow super fast. Then add some top and/or mid swimmers. Stay safe up there!
@@WildFishTanks thanks, that's what I thought too because there's not a lot of floor space.. the bristlenose are just really cool fish!!!❤️🐟🌿🌱 Thanks for your help!
Just about a week ago I got a surprise. I noticed a baby albino bn on the glass of my 40 gallon. I have a pair of them in the tank that I bought over a year ago as juveniles. I had kind given up on any breeding activity. I did not put a cave in the tank, but the male dug out a burrow under a large rock. There looks to be about 35 babies. The tank also has cories and Khuli loaches.
Great video man! Awesome plecos. Quick question, though. I've just had my first spawn but had a difficult time getting my male out of his cave. I successfully retrieved most of the 70+ fry but was unable to get him out plus several wigglers inside. Any tips or tricks with this? I'd like to get him out so he can start eating again but he's still hiding in his cave and I don't want to risk significant trauma in shaking him out more than I have already. Thanks in advance!
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Thanks for another great video
After many mistakes and moving disruptions, I finally had my first successful Bristlenose fry, and my male was sitting on 4 clutches so I have a pretty full and busy tank now, and very proud of my fish. He only gave himself 2 days off before he was back on eggs and there will be more free swimmers in the next couple of weeks- luckily I feed very well and clean up the debris and do a 20-25’/. water change every 2 days to keep up with the load
When do you think I should move the fry into a grow out? I recently moved and haven’t set up all my tanks yet so bio film is going to be really important
Do you think new wood is a good source for biofilm with its abundance of white Bristlenose candy floss? I also use bio starter, old media, O/W, and spirilina powder to help speed up a good bio film on all the surfaces
Thanks again-Tommy
Thank you so much for all the information. In Australia I never seen any Super Red longfin bristlenose & I would love it if you can advice me how to achieve that.
Thank you so much in advance!
Great video .What substrate , if any , do you place in your breeding tanks ?
I typically have no substrate in my breeding tanks, sometimes I’ll use gravel but haven’t noticed a difference
Thank you, I learned a lot. I underfed mine, lost one of four( Is 3x 3 inch too many for 110litres?
in min. 7:03 we can see those like "worms" . what is that .... Pretty cool !!
Great information, had a question I can’t find an answer for: do two long fins only produce long fins ? Not sure whether long fins is dominant or recessive. Thanks !
Just a note about the wood in your tanks. The Plecos need the lignin in the wood for digestion.
Very informative!
I have a fair range of plants in my aquarium and have just added 2 bristle nose in there.
Will they likely eat the plants or can I do anything to stop them eating them?
Thanks
Aaron
Sorry bud I must have blanked out when you answer this haha
Great vid man, spot on advice! I've over 20 in a 55 gallon, they all know the lemon is the daddy!!!! I am selling some, but wanted to grow them on to pick the best for breeding! I have no real aggressive behavior! Just abit of shoving now and then!
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I have a long fin Bristlenose and really wanted him to breed. I put a Pleco cave in but his fins got injured! BADLY. Just ordered a bigger cave. Just saying "the smaller the better" isn't always best. He's healing now but it's a slow process.
we have one that's over a footlong at least and we've had him for ten years
Hi
Extremely new to the world of fish keeping so I have a question for my friend, I have a aquarium with a few( SIX) Malawi in could I maybe put one/two bristlenose plecos in with them,
Thanks, Great video by the way,
I wish there was was a dwarf/miniature variety small enough for a 10 gallon tank.
If we can breed poodles from wolves, it should be possible.
Are there any 90/110 or bigger fish tanks within the length of 48inches long🤔my plecos are getting gigantic in my 75 gallon with all the other Ciclids. Preferably I need a bigger tank but within 48inches long height doesn't matter
Thanks for sharing. I’m new to this as had babies unexpectedly so trying to gain as much knowledge as possible. The daddy pleco is underneath a wooden log even though I have bought cave and he hasn’t come out since yesterday. I’m wondering now if there are more eggs under there although not much space. Is this safe?
Regarding native fish collecting: What would you consider a good example of laws that allow collecting as well as preventing undue harm to the native fish populations.
Great question Michael! Thank you, I will definitely put it in the next episode
Do you recommend a water change after the 7 day treatment for ick or parasite treatment im doing on my bristlenose
I lost most of my babies and don't know why they started dying about a month old I had snail's in the tank with them could that be the problem? Thank you love your channel
Do you have any lonfin red calicos?..
I spotted a baby pleco in one of my community tanks. I had no idea that I had a pair to breed.
Congrats, Where there’s a will, there’s a way! They can breed in community tanks but typically there is a high survival rate
can a pleco become non nocturnal? i dont exactly know the definition of a normal night sleeper but my new pleco has recently started to come out during the day and sometimes at night, is this normal or do I have some sort of problem?
I own a ten gallon tank and I really want just one pleco but I don't know what kind to get. What would you suggest?
What kind of frozen foods or what is the best food for them to eat as babies?
Hi. we have a breading pair of Plecos. one brown female with an albino.male they are in a 300liter tank with 5 mollys 4 shrimp and a Guppie and a Beta. the male pleco is guarding some eggs and i don't know if i should take them out and put them in a separate tank in order to protect the babies from the other fishes are in the tank. would they eat them? your advice would be much appreciated . Thanks
Can you show what velvet or ich looks like on a Pleco? My Bristlenose has strange discoloration on its body. Can’t find any specific information online.
Hi. İ keep them with discus. My discus tank’s temp is 30 degree. İ want to know is it normal temp breeding them on this temprature?
Will shrimp help with the amount of waist that builds up? Like will it slow down the build up even a little? I want to get a small shrimp tank and maybe add 1 or 2 plecos would these two species benefit each other?
Was wondering how do you make sure the native fish you collect don't have any diseases or parasites? What's the quarantining process?
Will they re grow a pectoral fin? My red devil took a bite out of my super red and he lost whole fin from it? They were fine for 3 months then he bit fin and with in 2 days it was completely gone. Just wondering if it will grow back, seems healthy other than that
Can l put baby plecs into a fry pen to stop other tank fish from eating them?
Will other types of plexus bully bristlenoses? My tank is 150 gallon. I have two baby golden bristle noses ( male and female it seems) about 3” and recently I purchased two albino long fins about 2”. They were in a totally bare tank and very thin. I have lots of driftwood and have only seen one of them since the purchase. My daughter wants to give me a marble horn sailfin about 5”. Should I set up a 55 for that guy?