Bristle Nose Pleco Sexing

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Evobe

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Hey can you tell me if my bristle nose plecos are male and female?
BN 1:
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By evobe at 2010-06-19

BN 2:
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By evobe at 2010-06-19

BN 2 is smaller and has no bristles, BN 1 ahs a full beard of them :D
 
From the pics, they both look like females but you say that BN 1 has a full beard of them?
If it has got lots of bristles and they are slightly upturned, then it is defintely a male.
 
How big are they? they both look female to me but if number one is small then it could be a young male.
 
This is my male if it helps

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And my female. Not great pics but you can see the difference. No bristles at all on the female.

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This is BN 2, about 1 and a half inches, no bristles:
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By evobe at 2010-06-20

This is BN 1, about 2 inches and wider, afew bristles on the nose:
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By evobe at 2010-06-20

sorry about the pic size guys :p
 

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