Bristlenose Factory

12/26/2025

Moved fish from a 20 long to put 2 batches of green dragon bristlenose fry in it. Pulled these calicos from that tank, they will go to the swap in Schertz on Jan 11. Several nice young pairs in there.

12/25/2025

New spawn of petricola on Christmas day. These eggs were in a freshly cleaned container and just laid, hope to get a great hatch. Had this setup show up on my page. It is a Ziss 2000 Plus brine shrimp hatchery and the guy using it was having great success hatching the catfish. He used the handle to actually hang it in the tank but I chose to free stand it. Added 2 drops of methylene blue to help with fungus. We will see how this goes. The babies from their last spawn are feasting on the eggs that don't wind up in the egg catchment container.

12/25/2025

Quick video of the petricola spawn that were free swimming on 11/24. Put them in a 15 gallon tank and literally couldn't find any of them for about a week, thought they all died from the move. Now a month later they are about 3/8" long and starting to get some black on them. Guessing around 400 or so. Parents gave me a Christmas present and spawned again today. Will post that shortly.

12/25/2025

Thanksgiving cactus has been blooming since then, covered with flowers still. The plant is about 2 feet wide. Took 54 cuttings from it last year to start new plants. It propagates quite easily with cuttings.

12/25/2025

Last weeks haul of bristlenose fry. Browns, green dragon, albino green dragon and calicos. Just pulled more browns and have several males still on eggs.

12/10/2025

Couple of Chindongo saulosi needing new homes. I see a few of the males starting to color up. They are 1.5-2". Males turn blue with vertical baring, females stay yellow. Also have about 50 at 2.5-3" with color. This is the dad and one of the females.

12/10/2025

I prefer not to have gravel in my tanks to make maintenance easier. Unfortunately, I have PH crashes occasionally if I don't. Results in a total tank wipeout. Now keeping it in filter bags and seems to be working fine. Makes it so much easier to keep the tank bottoms clean.

12/10/2025

One of my Synodontis pardalis hanging out in his house. He is about 7 inches long. There are 6 others in the tank, they live in a 110 gallon with some cyprichromis. Like the small on the head, then larges spots on the body with horizontal striping on the tail. Seem pretty peaceful, have had them about a year and a half.

12/08/2025

Sadly, the brown bristlenose doesn't get much love anymore with all the color options. I think they are pretty amazing. Every one is a little different but some are quite stunning. This guy is almost 6 inches long, not sure now old he is. He lives in a 75 gallon tank with all the extra males I have, probably 30 at least in there.

12/06/2025

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12/06/2025

This is a 15 gallon tank with a lot of young breeder bristlenose. There are browns, super reds, albino green dragons, green dragons, and calicos in it. They will be going to new homes at the upcoming swap in Schertz on Jan 11 and in Arlington on March 14. They are 3" or better, there are a few juvenile super reds in here as well.

12/04/2025

Green dragon bristlenose that came from the S. polli tank. looks like 3 males, rest females. Set them up as a new breeding colony for now, I already have 2 other groups going. Possibly will sell some of them at the swap in Shertz on Jan 11.