lol I paid £12 for a bristlenose that was barely an inch long here.

Nice photography!!

Thanks for the input, how long did yours grow?

Someone on another forum has a 11inch fish which looks like a frontosus from the pictures on the catelog, and neither bastiani or punctifer allegedly grow to that size...so maybe it is not such an impossibility. Either way, I would honestly prefer them to grow to 8 inches.

They look less like bastiani to me than they do punctifer, but Frontosus still seems most similar..does anyone else have any ideas on how to be certain? I suppose adult size will tell, I wouldn't mind them growing 4 or 5 inches shorter lol.

You could well be right, I have a younger one also from the same source for comparison,

Some more pics..

My Synodontis Frontusus. He is too cool!! Super fun to watch.

Howdy all, I hope this is the right section. Thought I would post pics of my new pick up, I am uber pleased with him, DEFINITELY my new fave fish :D:D

Sorry they are in bag pics,

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Thanks. Just a case of waiting

Yeah I was wondering if mine was het albino, but he probably isn't. If mine survives and thrives I'll probably pick up a pair of albinos and see if I can get the three of them breeding. At the moment mine has no bristles whatsoever, but he/she is only probably 2 inches long. Is it too soon to say ...

Cool 25% albino out of the blue isn't bad I only really know corn snake genetics which are pretty simple but it appears catfish are similar

Excellent thanks I might have to take you up on that when mine gets a little bigger

They are really cool, I have never seen albinos for sale, is it possible that mine are maybe het? Is that quite unlikely? What do you keep the hatchlings in when you catch them?

That's awesome! I was wandering on the genetics of bristlenose catfish, is the albino gene simple recessive?

Oh really thanks a bunch the water I use is just aged tap water since until recently I only had goldfish. Thanks very much

That is insane!! What are you going to do with them all?

I have another question also, I tested the water today and discovered that the nitrate level is pretty high, 25ml/l. I read that Bristlenoses don't cope with high nitrates too well, and I was wondering if there was an easy solution to ...

Haha thank you for the quick reply that's what I was expecting. I'll be sure to get them out ASAP when I get round to breeding them

What's up my name is Tom and I am new to this forum, I just got my first catfish a few weeks ago and he/she is a bristlenose pleco. I have been reading up on breeding these guys but I cannot find specific information on what will be a danger to the fry. At the moment the tank has 4 goldfish and my ...