How big is your BN pleco??

How big is your Bristlenose?? I am planning on getting one and this is a curiosity post. Let me see your BN plecos! I would love to see some large ones. Ive never seen an adult before!

 

My young adult bristlenose (Caveman) is about 4 inches and still growing! I can't post a pic right now, but I will when I'm at his tank again.
Edit: sorry, fat fingers clicked five.

 

My young adult bristlenose (Caveman) is about 5 inches and still growing! I can't post a pic right now, but I will when I'm at his tank again.

I can't wait to see!

 

My full grown (6 1/2") male






HI'm compared to my 4" female

 

My full grown (6 1/2") male






HI'm compared to my 4" female

Hat is awesome! Beautiful fish!! I love his coloration!

 

Thank you He's awesome!

 

My albino bristlenose male, Lucky is 5 1/2 inches from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. There is a picture of him in the pleco forum entiled Introducing Lucky my male ABN. I don't know how to move to here. I also have two females, An L144 blue eyed lemon pleco , Buttercup, who is about 3 inches long and over a year and a half, and a blue eyed yellow ancistrus, Bella, who is the youngest one at about a year and she is about 4 inches. They are my favorite fish. Alison

 

My albino bristlenose male, Lucky is 5 1/2 inches from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. There is a picture of him in the pleco forum entiled Introducing Lucky my male ABN. I don't know how to move to here. I also have two females, An L144 blue eyed lemon pleco , Buttercup, who is about 3 inches long and over a year and a half, and a blue eyed yellow ancistrus, Bella, who is the youngest one at about a year and she is about 4 inches. They are my favorite fish. Alison

Go to that forum and hit the "share" option and paste the url in a post here and everyone can go see it in your thread!

 

My male. How long do they generally take to get full size? My boy seems no where near as big as yours!

 

Hat is awesome! Beautiful fish!! I love his coloration!

Roughly how old was he when he hit that size? (He's awesome btw)

 

I am planning in getting one and my LFS says 4-6inches. And they take in a bunch (its a mom and pop location)

 

Roughly how old was he when he hit that size? (He's awesome btw)

ThAts flowingfins fish

 

ThAts flowingfins fish

Apologies, replied to wrong post! Flowingfins

 

How long do they generally take to get full size? My boy seems no where near as big as yours!

Roughly how old was he when he hit that size? (He's awesome btw)

Thank you
I'm really not sure, we bought him at this size. He's in a tank with aggressive cichlids so we figured a larger one would be better. I do know that he was raised in an outdoor pond. aliray can probably answer better than me.

 

Mishka is about 6 inches and he turned 13 this year. From personal experience I found that Mishka grew like crazy until he was about 4 inches and then his growth really slowed after that.

 

My oldest and largest is about 5 + years old and about 5 inches long but big as a small childs hands....

Here is a picture of him with a 5 month baby

 

My oldest and largest is about 5 + years old and about 5 inches long but big as a small childs hands....

Here is a picture of him with a 5 month baby

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How fast did he reach 5 inches? And anyone know if the sex determines size?

 

How fast did he reach 5 inches? And anyone know if the sex determines size?

I don't know if the sex determines the size. I had 2 females that were really small at 7 months old ( I think ) and they were in my QT tank with a male ( also around the same age as I bought all 3 together ) Well after being in the QT tank, the male mated with BOTH the females and I ended up with 60+ babies ( I have since rehomed the 2 females and I have 3 babies left that are 5 months old now )
The male that I kept is only about 3 inches long and is relatively "skinny" at being a year old now.........

As for my pleco that's 5 + inches, I think he's been like that since 4 + years old????? I don't exactly remember

 

Here's Amy-

She's probably around 4-5 inches and around 4-5 years old.

 

Just picked twig up the other day. He/she is about an inch to an inch and a half right now

 

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Just picked twig up the other day. He/she is about an inch to an inch and a half right now

it is so small! Cant wait to see it grow up!

 

Love the Albinos, I have 2 standard BN catfish. So tempted to add a other albino or sailfin!

 

Love the Albinos, I have 2 standard BN catfish. So tempted to add a other albino or sailfin!

Me too, I'm thinking. About acquiring a male sailfin to breed with amy.

 

Love the Albinos, I have 2 standard BN catfish. So tempted to add a other albino or sailfin!

I'm the other way. I prefer no -albinos. When I was raising commons amd selling them to the lfs, some guy wanted an albino. He wasn't my fav pleco but I got him to 5inches and then gave him his new home. Guy loved it.

 

Saifins get up to 18 inches long, Too big for the average tank. Males are usually an inch longer than the females 6 inches and 5 inches for the standard colors. The albino BN's usually are an inch shorter than the standard colors but can get as big. sometimes. Alison

 

Saifins get up to 18 inches long, Too big for the average tank. Males are usually an inch longer than the females 6 inches and 5 inches for the standard colors. The albino BN's usually are an inch shorter than the standard colors but can get as big. sometimes. Alison

A sailfin bn gets 18?

 

Go to that forum and hit the "share" option and paste the url in a post here and everyone can go see it in your thread!

I will have to wait to enlist hubbys help. I am computer challenged to say the least. I will have him look at it tomorrow. Alison...Thanks

 

What kind of BN is this?

 

Standard. They look mottled when they come out in the day, it's to camouflage them.

 

This Pete pretending to be a Cory!


I've had him for about 8 months and he's now probably about 3 inches long and was about half that when I got him.

 

This Pete pretending to be a Cory!


I've had him for about 8 months and he's now probably about 3 inches long and was about half that when I got him.

Looks healthy! Love it!

 

I'm starting my BN baby on cucumber I got it in there any suggestions on how to get him to eat it?

 

Let's see I have 1 that's 4inches(male), one that's 3inches(female), 2 inches(don't know yet), 6 inches(female)

 

Let's see I have 1 that's 4inches(male), one that's 3inches(female), 2 inches(don't know yet), 6 inches(female)

Pics? I would love to see the big one compared to the little one (mines the size of your little one)

 

Male female female and big female