super red ancistrus

you will be suprised what some people are will to pay for them i had six originally i ended up with 2 males and 4 females so i keeped a sexed trio and passed a trio on colin.

have you had any success with them at al colin any breeding i am really wanting to get some any ideas ? i had some of biker man but they got white spot which was highly odd as i keep nearly every bristenose and never come across this problem once , it wasnt over stocked the water is kept to very accurate parameters . who knows but i was very disappointed none the less

hiya i have had no luck so far with breeding them the male needs a few more bristles and hasnt taken to a cave yet , i did hear that most people that have had them lost them to white spot. thats why they arnt seen for sale colin.

[img][/img] heres some pictures of mine colin

hi colin so people that have got them off steve have had white spot of them do you know and do u have any ideas were i can get some at all , and i cant see you picture colin , dont know if you upoaded it ?

i got some of steve aka bikerman and my fish have all been fine , what i heared was that a few come into the country a few years back . the people who got them then most people lost them then , also jo from rare aquatics got some in awhile back and 2 people snapped them all up . also i trying to figure out how to upload the pictures when i do i will put them up unless someone has an idiots guide colin.

There's a few easy ways.....

here's one............

http://www.bristlenoseworld.com/announcement-s-f3/how-to-post-pix-t606.htm

and here's another.........

http://www.bristlenoseworld.com/announcement-s-f3/easy-way-to-post-pix-t656.htm

hope these help..........

have put pictures oin my personal album just waiting for them to be cleared before they can be see and thaks for the idiots guide colin.

cleared now mate...

cheers curby

well ive just lost my super red male , but still have two females looks like i will have to wait till the prices come down before i replace him colin.

Sorry to hear of your loss ...... you must be devastated

colink wrote:

well ive just lost my super red male , but still have two females looks like i will have to wait till the prices come down before i replace him colin.

i am devistated because i know how hard they are to come by i will now have a think of something else to try and breed colin.

Hi colin,
Sorry to hear about your loss.
Keep hold of your females as the females always seem harder to get hold aswell.Hopefully more reds will get over here soon.

dam shame that colin i'll keep an eye out for a male for you......

thanks people im sure i will manage to get amale from somewhere colin.

Hi, was just reading through this thread, I have contacted Rare Aqutics and was told they will contact me when they get more super reds in, don't think I want to pay 40 quid for one though , at Trimar they are advertising """ ANCISTRUS SP.LONGFIN RED JEWEL BRISTLENOSE 9.99 """
I know these are not super red, on anther forum I was advised they may be a strain of Calico, anyone care to share there knowledge in my direction, I am very tempted.........

i tempted to get a brown male and try an breed with the 2 females i have and see if it true that you can improve the red blood line what peoples thoughts on this colin.

kiriyama wrote:

Hi, was just reading through this thread, I have contacted Rare Aqutics and was told they will contact me when they get more super reds in, don't think I want to pay 40 quid for one though , at Trimar they are advertising """ ANCISTRUS SP.LONGFIN RED JEWEL BRISTLENOSE 9.99 """
I know these are not super red, on anther forum I was advised they may be a strain of Calico, anyone care to share there knowledge in my direction, I am very tempted.........

At this price will be Calico

calico mate

colink wrote:

i tempted to get a brown male and try an breed with the 2 females i have and see if it true that you can improve the red blood line what peoples thoughts on this colin.

im going to do the same colin only im going to let the reds breed first then split the pair to a female brown and male brown then have a play about with the young from the three breedings and see what happens

you will have to let me know how you get on with that deano,and i will post here if i have any luck colin.

i will do colin

I've had loads of S R babies from my males. I can't stop them breeding so I've isolated them for a month in the grow on tanks which are far too small for them really but they are ok when I put them back in the main tank and off they go again.
Just for the record I had one breed with a brown girl and all the offspring were brown. I wonder if the red gene would ever surface but I shan't breed them back myself. They all go to my LFS.

If there are Long Fin Super Red Bushynose we have not yet seen them in North America. For this reason I have been working on developing my own. I crossed a Long Fin Albino female with a Super Red Bushynose male. All the fry were were of the brown goldspot colour half of them long fin and half short fin. I grew up some of the long fins and crossed a long fin female back to a Super Red male. They just recently spawned and only last week did the fry leave the cave. Half of them are brown and half apear to be Super Red judging from the dark eyes and the tiny dark spot at the caudle base that all super red fry have. About half of them show the longer tail so it looks like I am having success. From my past 60 years of fish breeding and past experience with genetics it will not be too much longer before I have my own fixed strain of Long Fin Super Red Bushynose.