Aldric

I just checked my tank and saw something I just had to share. My one albino bristlenose (curly) loves to dig a hole in the sand under the cucumber and she will spend hours upsidedown there only poping up to eat it well it seems she has had a better idea on how to eat and not be disterbed.....

AlyeskaGirl

LOL What a cutie!!! Thanks for sharing!

whisper

How cute is that? She can lay right there and take a nap and then just wake and start eating.

snakestorm526

hahaha...that is so cool... How do you keep the cucumber from floating? Everytime I put cucumber in my tank it always floats

Aldric

well if you look closely you can just see a bit of metal. its called a screwcumber its marine quality stainless steel in the shape of a screw that u can use to keep any typ of veggie from floating away

bolivianbaby

That's so cute! Thanks for sharing.

Aldric

ok got anouther update for you... same bristlenose this time she was determined to do her important job of cleaning a leaf of algo no matter what even tho it was moveing around in a air bubble curtain......

whisper

Boy that little guy just didn't want to give up :. Oh love your fancy guppies too!

Aldric

lol ty
i also posted a vid of my guppies swimming around a week or so ago

**edit here is the link to the guppy vid
guppy vid

Butterfly

Cool vids!!
Carol

callichma

How do you know she's a girl? I have one and would like to know if it's a he or she.

aquarist48

Great videos! Thanks for sharing Aldric!
Ken

Aldric

you can tell by the amount of bristles they have

this is a pic of my boy

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iloveengl

Awww hehehehehe she's so cute working SO hard to get every bit of that leaf clean. what a good little bn! lol She's also pretty clever with her little burrow-and-munchy method she has in that first video.

Butterfly

some species of BN both male and female will have bristles. Male will have bristles as Aldrics male and the female will have a thin line across the upper lip but not all over the snout and up between the eyes
carol

jwokmuba2

just wondering, can the bristles hurt you, are they hard, and what do the plecs use them for.

Mystic54

Aw she's so cute! I love watching pleco's munch away!

Butterfly

The bristles in the end of the nose are very soft and collapse out of water. They are used as sensory organs.
Carol

callichma

Thanks re the bn sexing. I guess mine's a girl. She's a very hard worker. I'm going to have to figure out how to upload pictures.