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Re: bristle nose sexing
- To: Aquatic Plants Digest <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
- Subject: Re: bristle nose sexing
- From: "H. Hoekstra" <hugo at greed_nl>
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 19:49:46 +0100
- In-Reply-To: <199902262048.PAA00223 at acme_actwin.com>
>Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 17:52:08 +0200 (EET)
>From: Liisa Sarakontu <lsarakon at cc_hut.fi>
>Subject: Re: bristle nose plecos
>There are other ways to sex young bristlenoses too: wait until they are
>sucking the front glass: Males have wider heads and wider mouths.
>Females have bigger bellies, less blunt noses and narrower mouths. Males
>have sturdier and more spiky first rays of pectoral fins. That mouth
>width is often easy to see even when the fish is just 3 cm long. (Tomasz
>Nidecki taught this to me when he visited me few years ago, thanks Tonid!)
Liisa, I have 2 temminckiis and am anxious to know if I have a couple.
They are clearly different in shape but I can't tell the difference yet
because one of 4 cm has a wide mouth, but also a bigger bellie and a big head,
compared to the other one. It's also beginning to develop some very tiny
bristles. Other one is 3 cm and has clearly a slimmer head but a more round
mouth. Pectoral fin rays are about the same, how many rays should be spiky?
Thanks for your advise.
Best regards,
Hugo Hoekstra