Ninja Pleco

Ok, this guy came from a tank I got with a bunch of fish.... I didnt even know he existed, sad thing is I did a 100% water change when he was in there, and I had no idea. But, he lived... and a few months later, I noticed him.... lol... thats why I call him ninja pleco.... he is pretty cool looking.... but, what is he? just a albino? any guesses? [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

dont know the size.. but looks to me as a female bristlenose.. Has some interesting white dots on it tho,.. could be a reg albino pleco to i guess..

Looks like a common Albino, However really nice coloring like the albino Bristle nose... This guy was lost in your 55 somewhere?

It does look like a female albino gold bushynose to me.

Trade ya for a couple babies

Lol, I am gonna grow this lil' guy out.... he/she has already been thru allot.... I ouw him a happy life after that.

Kingstature - I picked up a 46gal bowfront with some fish in it already.... cleaned it out, but kept the substrate.... the guy I got it from rarely ever vacummed his sub, so the 100% waterchange and filter change caused an ammonia spike and killed all the lufubu that i put in there ..... anyway.... this lil' guy went thru it all.... survived the 100% water change (cause I didnt know he/she was in there) and the ammonia spike. Popped out like a ninja a month later... lol

TR6 would likely know for sure Sandnuka

me wrote:TR6 would likely know for sure Sandnuka

Gonna have to go visit my ol' friends over there at the fronts.com huh? lol.... k... ive been meanin to drop by and give them a howdy, things have just been crazy with this forum takin off.

You're guys and girls are doing a great job with this forum Sandnuka SERIOUSLY! This is now in my top three favorite forums, just wish I had more free time to read everyones posts.

alright.... the experts have told me this...

"Albino short fin bushynose/bristlenose, Ancistrus sp.

The albino bushynose is a mixture of unknown Ancistrus species, thus it can't have a species name, so it is simply....

Ancistrus sp."

had a couple people agree with it too... so this is what I am thinking! thanks all!

Cool you figured out what this survivor is. Neat to see and learn about what he was. thanks nuke. : )

It's some kind of nuclear submarine for tiny aliens..trust me on this one.

WOW that thing is gorgeous.

I concur, it's a Albino bristlenose pleco, or ABN for short. I breed these at my house also.

Doza wrote:dont know the size.. but looks to me as a female bristlenose.. Has some interesting white dots on it tho,.. could be a reg albino pleco to i guess..

Hmmm.. Wow 3 posts agreeing with me.. albino bristlenose and its probably a female.. I wonder how much longer this post will become...

Alright... so we obviously figured out what it is... well what everyone thinks it is..... What i dont get is why its still so small.... I have had it for probably 4-5 months... and its grew maybe 1/2"..... so maybe 2 1/2" in length now.... Are these just super slow growing plecos? never had anything but a common, and he got big fast.

They only get 5 to 6" average so im sure 1/2" is alot in that amount of time.

jeeeez... that is slow growing.... 1/2 inch in 4-5 months..... cause it was only a baby at 2", think entering juvinile age it should have a bigger spurt than a 1/2 inch in a 1/2 year. But, they could live a 100 years.. I know nothing about these guys.. lol

I guess Im just used to like cichlids that grow 2"-3" every six months unti lthere full grown in a yr and a half..

yea bristlnoses dont grow quick.. they are so slow that you dont notice untill one day it smacks you and you realize and notice how much they have grown.. If it has grown that slowly it is just a albino bristlenose like i first thought and it should be a female.. and that size males already are showing some sign of bristles..

Sandnuka, are you feeding it anything special or does it just eat the algae and whatever leftovers it can scrounge? I find that mine grow faster when they are in tanks that I can feed them without competition from other fish. In tanks with other fish they are slow growers though -- everything I try to sneak in for them gets eaten by the others. (Think I'll post pics of my plecos next...)

Yes, BN are much slower and will never get very big - I believe they only reach 4-5" total length. But the big advantage - they continue to devour algae their entire life, and they don't become poop machines like their bigger cousins.

Well that answers that! lol.... Betty, I throw in a cucumber and some vege flake now and then.... she is in a discus tank, the discus wont touch the alge flake or the cucumber, so she gets what she needs.... plus its a planted tank with really good lightin so there is soooo much alge, I need a few more cause its not puttin a dent in the alge... maybe snails or I will get 3 or 4 more BN

sandnuka wrote:Well that answers that! lol.... Betty, I throw in a cucumber and some vege flake now and then.... she is in a discus tank, the discus wont touch the alge flake or the cucumber, so she gets what she needs.... plus its a planted tank with really good lightin so there is soooo much alge, I need a few more cause its not puttin a dent in the alge... maybe snails or I will get 3 or 4 more BN

More bristlenoses.. yay... i love those guys..

i didnt know they stayed so small or I wouldve gotten them along time ago..... I hated plecos cause they just get soooo big, and create more waste than they clean! I love the albino guys too, something about that bright color on a pleco just looks so cool.... I just asked a breeder if he had any left. Hopefully can pick some up this week.

lol Sandnuka.. do you not know much about plecos. There are MANY different plecos that are beautiful and stay around 6 inches..

Well obviously I dont know hardly anything! lol... Ive had 1 pleco my whole life, before this lil albino bristlenose girl.... and the stupid thing got flippin HUGE! looked pretty cool, was just too big and pooped too much..... I like the green phantom guys, and Ive seen a couple I really like, but all the more exotic ones are SOOOO much money.

sandnuka wrote:Well obviously I dont know hardly anything! lol... Ive had 1 pleco my whole life, before this lil albino bristlenose girl.... and the stupid thing got flippin HUGE! looked pretty cool, was just too big and pooped too much..... I like the green phantom guys, and Ive seen a couple I really like, but all the more exotic ones are SOOOO much money.

yep true that is soo true.. i hate standard plecos for all the reasons you mentioned.. to big, hate their look and they are messy and dont clean algae much at all once bigger... Plecos arent cheep..

Saw her out today, so took a few shots... She is lonely.... needs some friends.... just let me know if anyone got those albino bristle/bushy nose guys around the north side.

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This isn't the north end, but I was in Blue Sierra in Renton the other day and they have a few of the long finned mutation AB's left.

I have 4 of the long finned guys, two red eyed and two blue eyed, still too young to sex though.

I just purchased a long finned albino bristlenose male for 12.99 at the LFS up here... there is a bunch of them there... around 6.99 for regular fin.... I was hoping to find a breeder willin to give me a deal... like 3 for 10 or something....

You need a male and I need a female. Too bad you're so far away or I could loan you mine for stud service.

Lol.... like I said there is a grip of them available at the LFS near me.... tons of females too.... I think I got the only male left... but he was small, just startin to show bristles....

Wouldnt mind have a bunch more in the tank... didnt know they stayed so small.... They look really cool with my discus

lol Just a side note on he/she living through the 100% water change. My boyfriend recently aquired a LARGE pleco from our local fish store. Approx. 8-9" long. The first night he was home in the tank we left for about 5 hours and when he came home he had just the tank light on not the living room lights and couldn't find the pleco anywhere. He walked all around the tank and couldn't find the pleco (how can a pleco that big just disappear!) Well even more curious he turned on the living room lights and starts looking further and finds Mr. Pleco laying on the floor. Somehow he managed to get himself out of the tank. (no one has access to his apartment and no other animals are in the house) He had managed to move the light that sits on top and got out the back. When he was found he was breathing VERY slowly and was dry and stiff. We didn't have much faith in him making it through the night. My boyfriend picked him up put him in the tank and swished him a little bit and let go, sure enough belly up, but still alive. So he grabbed him again and pushed him deeper in the water swishing him yet again and Mr. Pleco swam out of his hand and low and behold. About a month later Mr. Pleco is doing JUST fine. We put filler pieces in the back section of the tank and actually have to put a pellet can (which is all metal including the pellets for a gun) on top of the glass tops where they open because he will quite often turn and swipe his tail across the lids and open them. He is a very strong fish!! Definitely shocked the hell out of us going through all that! Tank is spotless definitely a good purchase! And some entertainment as well

I will have a whole bunch of little albino long finned bristle noses for sale soon.

Give her zucchini, yellow squash, blood worms, cantaloupe, algae wafers. A good varied diet increases growth rate a bunch. They are only slow growers if not well fed.

Fern! your in florida! how is tellin us all these great fish you have available gonna help!!??!? lol....

Shippin is always expensive... actually thats why I put together the group buy thread.... If you see in there we group together and buy from a sponsor/shop online that way we can split shipping.... I dont think you have enough fish for sale to cover a large group buy though..

If you did, you could make some money... I just paid our sponsor 800 something for this group buy going on now... check out all the cool fish we ordered... "reserve stock cichlids II" in the group buy section under market.

I'm in the midst of getting set up with sw air cargo, $60ish will ship a big box of fish within 24hrs. In a couple of months I am going to be selling a BUNCH of fry for pretty cheap, just because I'm running out of tank space If they keep breeding the way they are I may have to move my bed out just to make fry room

I got 7 alb plecos...want to buy them