Baby Bristlenose Catfish Feeding
by Aquaboy on Friday, May 7th, 2010 | 25 Comments
This is a close up of some of my baby Bristlenose catfish. There are 2 batches that can be seen here. The smallest are 4 weeks old and the biggest are 8 weeks old. Daddy Bristlenose can’t be seen as he is in his hollow log tending more eggs but mummy makes an appearance. They are really good parents, dad never leaves the eggs, he constantly fans them with his tail to keep them from going bad and in this vid you can see mum being protective of babies by chasing away the Clown Loach that gets too near. Thanks for watching. If you like the video, please rate it. Questions or comments are welcome.
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3.30 – haha! goes with the music perfectly!
@polter60
I like to offer my fish a little bit of variety. Wafers make up the main part of the diet but once or twice a week I also give them some of the following … cat fish pellets, pleco tablets, cucumber, courgette, frozen prawns.
Big coincidence with last comment i bought a baby albino today for £4.50 hes only about an inch long.
He’s my newest addition what else do you feed them other than cucumber? i have some algea wafers to feed mine are they sufficient?
they should survive, why do you think they wouldn’t. aslong as your water quality’s fine they will be.
ive just bought 2 bristle noses ones about an inch and the other one is about 2 cm do u think they will survive
okk thnkz
@XAwDAznX … Yup, they love it.
they eat cucumber?
@fulysiktrk4lyf … Not at all. BNs are mostly vegitarian. They will eat a dead fish if the body is not removed but they wont attack a live fish. I have kribs breeding in a tank with 5 adult BNs and the tiny krib babies were not touched.
i currently have 5 young bristlenose catfish in an 8 foot by 2 foot tank living with my guppies… when they grow up will they harm my guppies?
This is about the minimum size I would keep a bn. You might get away with having a pair (male and female) in a 20g long tank. I would just make sure there is plenty of wood for them and maybe some plant cover and also maybe try position a hide out at either end of the tank if you are housing 2 as it gives them their own little bit of territory and can help stop them squabbling.
would a Bristlenose be happy in a 20 gallon long?
I sold/exchanged all of them to fish shops apart from five males, these are now fully grown and are about 4-5 inches long.
how big are the bn now??
your deffinately right. Although i do already have a 90L tank with bristlenose, some leopard corys, neons and some more guppies. the 20L is probably a little to small for anything interesting really, not even for breeding guppies, i’ll find a use for it, maybe a spare aquarium for baby guppies if the ones in the main tank do decide to breed. (putting the baby guppies in another aquarium is so that they dont get eaten by their own parents) Thanks again mate
… good and thus have happier and longer living fish.
I can’t think of any. Seriously, the best advice I can give you is get a bigger tank, the biggest you can afford. A rough rule of thumb is 1in of fish per gallon (2″/g in a 6 month or older tank), you have 5g tank approximately, and probably about 6 inches of fish, so you are at the limits already. With a bigger tank, 40L minimum, preferably 80L or more you can have a much nicer community tank and have maybe 1 or 2 bns and some corys. Plus bigger tanks it is easier to keep the water quality …
I guess, bristlenose are too big and corys are social fish. are there any sort of catfish that are small enough for a 20L tank and 6 guppies (ironicly one of my guppies died this morning) cheers mate
…Spend money on a bigger tank 1st then you would have room for either, I suggest.
Good luck n happy fish keeping. :O)
Sorry to say this but 20L (5g) is a small tank and not big enough to house a bristlenose (bn). It wouldn’t be happy and might not live that long, it might even try to escape as they do sometimes. I recommend a MINIMUM of 40L (10g) per bn. I am also sorry to say I don’t think it is really big enough for corys either. Corys need to be in groups of at least 4 in my opinion to be happy and I wouldn’t put 4 corys in less than a 40L tank. …
Oh yea, ive got around 7 guppies in one of my other aquariums which is 20L, could it house a bristlenose or maybe a couple of cories?
please reply.
My bristlenose is huge, all it does all day is eat the spongey filter in the corner of my fish tank so that it can hide under it. All it does is fucken eat!
ok thanx
Your fish are probably 2 or 3 months old at the size you say. It will take another 2 or 3 months before they start to develop their bristles. Females will either have tiny little bristles around the edge of the mouth or none at all. The male can’t be mistaken when he matures, he will develop bristles all over his face including a ridge of them that should grow from just below his eyes to his mouth.
how you know which is male and which is female? i got two bristles last week and they’re about 4-5cm.