what do you think/know this is? It's a 5" male bristlenose, the common kind... of bristlenose. I moved my fishtank upstairs and this guy started getting a puffy nose, later I noticed it was also a puffy, well love handles for lack of a better term, and a ridge of "bubbles" parallel his dorsal fin on ...

feed them frozen bloodworms. My not albinos would breed every month (one female, 3 males in a regular 30 gallon). When I stopped feeding them bloodworms they stopped breeding. The only other food they got was Hikari algae wafers. Also I had like an emporer 400, a 400gph powerhead and a 125gph ...

I apologize for bumping this old thread.

If you have a planted tank with CO2 injection your plecos will do this when the CO2 starts "dumping"