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Bristle Nose ID Aid.
Posted: 03 Feb 2004, 20:32
by FiSHYBiZNESS
Sup all?! I have been reading here a while and i am finnally a member. that out of the way. one quick question: what would be a good location (online preferably) to help id bristle nose? So far in the threads i have been reading the pictures do not resemble mine at all. My bristle nose is quite secretive so snapping a pic w/ my digital has proven quite difficult, mainly because the lighting where he hides/eats is quite dim. I am sure it is male however due to his large mohawk-like arrangement of bristles. i will just give a quick description and suggestions are welcome.
Approx 4" long very dark brown/green. Large array on a head that is flat and very rounded, the actual front is domed and elongated. he likes to root around in the substrate. No spots on the fish just a very small white tip on dorsal fin, and very small white tip on tail fin.
Suggestions appreciated!
Posted: 03 Feb 2004, 21:16
by Silurus
Did you look in the
Cat-eLog?
Posted: 04 Feb 2004, 22:34
by FiSHYBiZNESS
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 13:58
by FiSHYBiZNESS
any suggestions any one???
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 14:19
by Silurus
The closest I could get was either sp ( 8 ) or sp (9) in the Cat-eLog.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 14:22
by Caol_ila
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 14:26
by Silurus
Is there any white to the fin tips of A. triradiatus? The Cat-eLog pics seem to suggest not.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 19:53
by Barbie
My triradiatus had white tips like that when they were younger. I'd also vote triradiatus. Here's a pic of my big male for comparison.
Keep in mind he lives with my Ilangi tropheus, so his fins are a bit shredded at times.
Barbie
Posted: 06 Feb 2004, 05:46
by FiSHYBiZNESS
see how mine has less defined pattern, than barbie's? that is where i was getting frustrated/lost b/c he shows many traits of one but some of another. for example sp 7 or 8 i cant remember has too elaborate of a bristle array. but at the same time an argument could be presented that my fish is in the adolence stage and darkens himself when he leaves the driftwood cave to feed (when i can coax him out) which would lessen the pattern appearance topically (i guess). i am considering going back to my buddy's store 2morrow and looking through his stock records during the time period in which i puchased my fish and try and get a taxonomy.
keep the suggestions and thoughts flowing i will keep updated.
Posted: 06 Feb 2004, 05:52
by Barbie
Bristle "array" is linked directly to dominance factors. My male is the dominant male in his tank, and a few years old. Two males in the same tank will have very different "plumage", due to one being submissive at times. Depth of coloration also can't be used as identifying factor, since they can literally change that in second. You have to go by patterning, and body shape, where the eyes are positioned, how the fins attach and so on.
Barbie
