I need some Help

Jonno · Post by **Jonno** » 27 Oct 2005, 21:25

Hi i'm needing some help i have a male bn that i'm looking to breed i got this female a few weeks ago but they dnt look alike so what species are they and are they the same species? and could they breed with each other sorry if this is a newbie question but i would really like to breed from my male!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/F ... shMale.jpg
My Male

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/F ... ifishf.jpg
My Female

Thanks alot Guys & Gals

- Jonno

Post by **Janne** » 27 Oct 2005, 22:07

Your male are a common bristlenose but your female is not...they are two different species and it's not impossible that they can crossbreed and that we should avoid as much we can.
What kind of species your female are is hard to tell with that pic and even with a good picture but the chances increase a lot

she is probably wild caught and not breed.

Janne

Jonno · Post by **Jonno** » 27 Oct 2005, 23:18

so if the female is wild caught are these rare, and if i get a female common bristlenose will they mix?

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 28 Oct 2005, 09:07

Wild caught bristlenoses do turn up from time to time. I saw some when I went to Scotland a couple of weeks ago, and they were "competetively priced".

Unfortunately, bristlenoses that are similar MAY well cross-breed, creating hybrids, which is not a good thing.

If you get a common female, there is a chance that the male will accept both the common and the "uncommon" female as partners, and you may even get a brood from both at the same time [it's not entirely uncommon to have two females spawn at the same time with the same male].

If you have another tank, it would be a good idea to try to find a male of the same specie as the female, and keep them apart from the commons. If you haven't got the space to separate them, I suggest you try to swap either the male or the female for another one to match up the pair.

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Mats

Jonno · Post by **Jonno** » 28 Oct 2005, 15:07

i have another tank i was going to move the female to there any was going to get a common bn female

Fish Demon · Post by **Fish Demon** » 30 Oct 2005, 22:51

The female is an L182 and should not be mated with your male. I have two of them, both of which I found as contaminants in shipments of Common Bristlenoses. I have not seen them on any of my availability lists at work, so I have come to the conclusion that they are generally not imported intentionally.

Keep scanning the shipments of Common Bristlenoses at your LFS... You might just find another L182 (and hopefully a male).