Sexing Peppermint Bristlenose
#1
Posted 10 March 2011 - 06:46 PM
So I was wondering if anybody had any tips on how to sex them?
Any help would be great!
Thanks
#2
Posted 10 March 2011 - 06:50 PM
#3
Posted 10 March 2011 - 06:54 PM
#4
Posted 10 March 2011 - 06:59 PM
#5
Posted 10 March 2011 - 07:08 PM
Google for pictures
HTH
Edited by Sarahjayne1988, 10 March 2011 - 07:15 PM.
#6
Posted 10 March 2011 - 07:22 PM
#7
Posted 10 March 2011 - 11:50 PM
your giving away my secret......
yep thats the best way!!!!
#8
Posted 11 March 2011 - 10:35 AM
3F 1M he is a lucky man, but he cant tend to all his ladies.lol
#9
Posted 11 March 2011 - 10:39 AM
For more information check out hte link below
http://www.perthcich...?showtopic=2360
#10
Posted 11 March 2011 - 11:39 PM
For more information check out hte link below
http://www.perthcich...?showtopic=2360
dont wanna shoot ya down but thats only partially true.....
some have no bristles (or hairs) at all on their lips....... some have 2.... some 4.... some 6...... havent seen anymore than that... yet
#11
Posted 12 March 2011 - 07:03 AM
johnno taught this me a couple months ago when i picked some fish up off him. All my pepps have bristles. but from memory i have 50 50 ratio i think 4 M and 4 F , i use to to think i had all males till johnno taught me that rubbing trick
Only way, its how i sex all my bristlesnose.
he teaches well bigjohnnofish!!!!
brett
#12
Posted 12 March 2011 - 02:19 PM
Dunno what it is, I have no problems touching anything else, cleaning fish, guts, blood, whatever but bristlenose weird me out
#13
Posted 12 March 2011 - 04:52 PM
i agree with you im all good wth blood n guts and fish etc etc but i always thought handling bristlenose was a tad awkward.....Till i was out johnnos place and he was teaching me bristlenose 101 and was just like "hold this , hold that, thats a female thats a male touch there touch here" and now feeling bristle nose and sexing them , is just as easy if not easyier then venting in my opinion.
Just gotta watch out for the larger sizes little spike!!!!
brett
#14
Posted 13 March 2011 - 12:54 AM
if your scared of it then you'll muck about with it.... and you'll be expecting a spike and not be very confident....
just grab em - you cant hurt them they are amoured plated....
been handling them for years and never got a spike..... even when you try to feel their spikes - they are very blunt.....
sorta like catching marron and crabs... just grab em quick and they dont have time to grab you!!!!
#15
Posted 13 March 2011 - 10:01 AM
I fish alot, and boy a standing on a flathead or cobble isnt the most nice nicest thing in world........and can cause alot of pain, hence why i just respect fish with spikes....
im sure ill be seeing you again in the next couple weeks to grab soem royal whips! thanks for yesterday as well.
brett
#16
Posted 20 April 2012 - 10:07 PM
ps. could high ph determine their sex?? mine grew up in tang condition... else I should never gamble)
#17
Posted 21 April 2012 - 01:19 AM
ps. could high ph determine their sex?? mine grew up in tang condition... else I should never gamble)
yep right on the money higher ph = more males.... lower ph = more females.....
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