Help Sexing giant albino suckered!

[Its_my_puppys_tank]

I bought this tank off a friend just over a month ago because her brother did not want it anymore (yay for me)!

Anyways part of the tank was a couple fish and one of them is this giant albino sucker... I think it is 5 years old or something. Anyways today I would like your help figuring out what kind of fish it is egzactly and what sex it is! The fish I am referring to in down in the bottom right of the above picture

 

[myswtsins]

lol I answered all these questions in your other thread without you even asking and without me knowing this thread was here! But again it is an albino bristlenose pleco and the lack of bristles on her nose would indicate it is a female, that is not a 100% way of sexing but pretty darn accurate in most cases.

 

[Its_my_puppys_tank]

Haha thank you

lol I answered all these questions in your other thread without you even asking and without me knowing this thread was here! But again it is an albino bristlenose pleco and the lack of bristles on her nose would indicate it is a female, that is not a 100% way of sexing but pretty darn accurate in most cases.

 

[myswtsins]

Do you have any real wood in there? They need that for their digestion.

 

[Its_my_puppys_tank]

No I do not... what kind of wood should I be looking to get?

 

[myswtsins]

Safest bet look for something that is specific for aquarium use, usually called driftwood. Your Local fish store (LFS) should have some. Their are plenty of online places to order from too though.

 

[dougall]

I would likely go with female too...
But..

How giant is giant? Compared to the trim in the tank it could just be juvenile too.

You can try getting a picture from above, a d can maybe tell a little better, females appear a little wider than the boys do.

 

[Its_my_puppys_tank]

this is as good as I can do for an above picture because 'she' is very stubrun

 

[Its_my_puppys_tank]

How giant is giant? Compared to the trim in the tank it could just be juvenile too.

She is giant as in 3.5 4 inches long

 

[slayer5590]

That is not a bristlenose. It is a Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps and it still could grow to a very large size.