bristlenose i.d.

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joemc
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bristlenose i.d.

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here are a couple of pictures of a female bristlenose i bought 2 years ago, they came from Colombia, wild caught, have been very slow growing in comparison to other bristlenose cats i have kept, they were bought as Ancistrus brevifilis
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any help would be appreciated, sorry in advance about the poor pictures
regads
joe
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Re: bristlenose i.d.

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just bunping this back up before it gets lost! would anyone like to take a guess as to the i.d.? even to rule out some of the posibilities, tks
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Re: bristlenose i.d.

Post by racoll »

is a common Colombian export. It looks consistent as far as I can see, but there are so many brown !
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Re: bristlenose i.d.

Post by joemc »

thanks, I think you are on the mark with your i.d. i must have looked at every other bristlenosed catfish picture on the cat-elog bar these!
tks again
joe
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