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What is my catfish? is it male or female?
Posted: 22 May 2017, 00:18
by Savvas
Hello people! I have 2 plecos that i have no idea what are they. The guy at the shop told me that is a kind that they will not become very big. So i want some help about what kind of catfish are, how to recognise the male and female and if i can breed them as easy as the Bristlenose Plecos.
Re: What is my catfish? is it male or female?
Posted: 22 May 2017, 00:36
by BullFishkeeping
Those look like bristlenose plecos to me.
Re: What is my catfish? is it male or female?
Posted: 22 May 2017, 00:43
by Savvas
Thanks for the reply! is it any dwarf type of bristlenose plecos?
Re: What is my catfish? is it male or female?
Posted: 22 May 2017, 06:06
by jac
Ancistrus can be difficult to ID but I think yours could be
And it's a female ;)
Re: What is my catfish? is it male or female?
Posted: 22 May 2017, 06:47
by bekateen
If the fins are colored an orange red tinge to their spots, then yes,
. If the fins aren't an orange-reddish color in the spots, then there are several other species of
Ancistrus these could be.
Females have small bristles along the upper lip, like young males. You'll first recognize males when their bristles start to split, looking like a capital letter Y.
Cheers, Eric
