Bristlenose/Bushynose Plecos for sale $4ea or 6 for $20. Willing to trade for plants or shrimp Plus Shipping:
Shipping for1-6 fish, $12
Shipping for 7+ fish, $15
Long-fin and short-fin albino Bristlenose/Bushynose Pleco fry for sale. Beautiful fins, parents are long-fin. Pictures below, dad is the bottom picture. Fry hatched in May. These are ¾ to 1” long. Bristlenose plecos are considered the most “planted-tank friendly” plecostomus, maxing out at 4-5” in size and they reportedly live up to 14 years! Price is $4/fish, or 6/$20, plus shipping, PayPal only please. Please post any general questions here.
Shipping: Fish ship in Kordon bags using a medium shipping box lined with styrofoam insulation. Additional materials inside prevent water leakage and cushion the fish for their trip. Fish are fasted two days prior to shipping. I’ll include instructions for acclimating fish to your tank. Shipment via Priority mail with delivery confirmation. Shipping varies on the number of fish you purchase. Up to 6 fish ship in a USPS priority box ($12 shipping), more than 6 fish ship in a larger box ($13 shipping). Can overnight ship if requested and you are willing to cover the cost (about $35). I’ll send you a tracking number when the box ships (I ship on Mondays). You should make certain someone will be home when the package arrives to prevent the fish being left out in the sun or in the hot mailbox! Unless you indicate that you don’t want any extras, your order may include a few additional BN pleco fry. The larger your order, the more potential for extras!
Picture of parent (still trying to get a better picture of the great fins!) and fry below:
I'm dropping the price to $3/fish or 4 fish/$10 (that's only $2.50 per fish!) for anyone interested in purchasing) since I need to re-home these fry. These are really nice fish, with great fins. I'm just trying to recoup the cost of all the fresh zucchini and algae disks these guys are going through! I'm willing to refund any excess shipping cost if it turns out shipping cost less than $12-$15, but after factoring all the materials and postage rates in, I don't think it could cost much less than that to ship!
Interested in a trade?
I have a few pure endler males, some leftover guppies from a breeding project, and wild-caught Gambusia Affinis. I also have dwarf sag plants...
Redchigh, I'm always interested in trades, but unfortunately, I'm at fish capacity right now on all my tanks (actually a little over-capacity). If I had the space, I'd love some endlers, but no room now :-(.
I'm also pretty over-run with Dwarf Sag, although I do like the plant!
Absolutely still available, for $2.50 per fish! Any quantity you order. Order 4 or more, I'll throw in extra plecos, depending on what I can catch. I have long fin and short fin albinos available.
Got waaaay too many to keep.
I LOVE those plecos, they are so friendly and hard workers! I have 3 pairs and just bought 4 more babiesish from Petco @ $2.99/each. These are great fish at a great price, I know im new but i would reccommend them. I wish I could buy them up from you, especially the fry to put in my 7 tanks, even my very aggressive tank. They are so happy
I LOVE those plecos, they are so friendly and hard workers! I have 3 pairs and just bought 4 more babiesish from Petco @ $2.99/each. These are great fish at a great price, I know im new but i would reccommend them. I wish I could buy them up from you, especially the fry to put in my 7 tanks, even my very aggressive tank. They are so happy
I totally agree. i recently bought one from petco too. Although the long fins are beautiful they are slightly too fragile for my tank at the moment. i'm really hoping to be able to find some of these nearby me that aren't albino. hoping to get a dark brown or black one with white spots
Getting several boxes ready to ship on Tuesday. Anyone else wants some, please post here and PM me by Monday afternoon. Still have a lot left - the parents were very prolific!
Geez, just realized I can't spell "Plecos" in this thread title. Oh, well!
Fish update: Shipping multiple boxes today. I have lots of short-finsavailable, may still have a few long-fins in there as well. All these fish carry the so-called "super" long-fin genes (they can have fins that are greater than 1/2 their body length), so any fry should be a mix of long and short fins, depending on the other parent. These fish should reach breeding age by next June. If you breed these in the future, I strongly recommend getting additional BN breeders from another source to prevent inbreeeding.
Got a SC aquarium association meeting coming up at the end of the month and will be taking any fry left to the swap meet, so if you want some and haven't PM'd me yet, let me know!
I do have some left, but I can't tell you how many I'll have left until after my SCAA club meeting this coming Saturday (9/29) - I've promised some to club members!
Let me know when you have more Albino Bristlenose Plecos. I just saw your posting today, when it came on as new post. I live close as the crow files across the good Ol' USA, but many hundreds of miles across our great state, I live in Surfside Beach SC, just a few miles South of Myrtle Beach. Send me a PM, or email at boscobear@sc.rr.com
They'd make the trip to NJ well, but right now, I'm out of fry and out of breeders! I sold most of my adult males to focus on my L144 BN males and promptly lost the one L144 male that was breeding :-(.
Assuming the other L144 male in the tank "takes up the slack" with the three BN females, I'll have more fry, but right now, it's kind of up to him! I have 18 fry left, but I'm using them to back-cross back to my sole remaining L144 male in a year or so, I hope!
Correct. I'm trying to get some more vigor in the L144 line (the females I'm out-crossing with have really nice fins) and as a side-product, I'd hope to to breed a blue-eyed brown!
Ideally I'd cross with some other L144's from other breeders but I have been totally unable to find a high-quality source of L144 fry.
It would be really cool if you could end up breeding some blue eyed browns. If I still have the space later, and you have fry available, I might just have to buy a pleco (or two) from you
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