We all know how difficult it is to identify the sex of these fish, so please post a picture in here and we'll try to help you (or at least give an educated guess!).
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by blueblue » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:54 pm
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by lrry93 » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:53 pm
i say male
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by Plastic Mac » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:58 pm
I'd agree. Looks like a nice specimen too
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by blueblue » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:12 am
Thanks all. I also tend to say that it is a male from its appearance. However, the alpha male always wants to invite "it" to enter his cave and
"it" seems to be interested... moreover, it loves to hang around the cave of the alpha male very often, too
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by andrewcoxon » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:10 am
looks like a female to me like mate.... the head isnt as shovel like as i would expect.
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by Raul-7 » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:56 pm
But look at that thick pectoral fin.
There's too many variations, some girly-males while others are manly-females. I wish Zebra's were more like Cichlids when it comes to sexing.
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by McEve » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:59 pm
Raul-7 wrote: There's too many variations, some girly-males while others are manly-females. I wish Zebra's were more like Cichlids when it comes to sexing.
Isn't it though, or guppies!
This is one of those tricky ones. It's got female AND male traits. In this case I think I would judge by behaviour and say female
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by blueblue » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:46 am
Thanks andrewcoxon, Rail-7 and McEve ^.^
Let's wait and see what happens.
By the way, will homosexuality appears in Zebra pleco?
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by McEve » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:47 am
Never heard of homosexuality in Zebra
Angels yes, but that's about it I think, if you can call two females laying egg homosexuality
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by Rob » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:11 pm
Must admit I'm swaying towards the slightly butch female side of things. (obviously this is an opinion not a preference...
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by october004 » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:20 am
i say female but who am i .....
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by Dale90g » Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:50 pm
I'd say it looks more like a female - for what's that worth...wider body, not much 'whiskers'. I don't know how to spell odontoeds.
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by blueblue » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:57 am
Thanks all again for the suggestions
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by chanettt » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:09 pm
i would go for a nice male