Gender bender.

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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Gender bender.

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Just when I thought I had finally got my head around the sexing thing this zebra comes along.

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Pregnant female or extremely fat male, you decide. By the way the fish is very active, alert and obviously feeding well. (S)he is usually first at the dinner table.
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Hi Adam

I don't want to worry you but the fish (could be either sex as you have said, I'm totally 50:50 with this one) but I have seen fat zebras but your fish doesn't look right to me. You can even see the vent! I would say either this fish is severely egg bound or it has an internal problem. Obviously it otherwise looks and acts healthy so I wouldn't worry too much. Maybe others can suggest something?

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Tom2600 wrote:Hi Adam

I have seen fat zebras but your fish doesn't look right to me. You can even see the vent! I would say either this fish is severely egg bound or it has an internal problem.
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i seriously doubt this fish has any health problems. most of my fish looks like that after feeding, all their vents are visible.

in my opinion, i think its a male??
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Looks like a male to me...
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My dominant male always have a huge belly like that!I don't see anything wrong about.


p.s.I also believe of a male...
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WOW!! You guys really must feed your fish!! :shock:

I'd personally not want my fish getting that full of food, IMO not good health wise. Little and often etc BUT they do look otherwise healthy so as they say, if it isn't broken for you don't fix it. :D

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It's justa beer belly!;)
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Post by Adam »

Ed_R, more like shrimp belly. :lol:

I've never seen him trying to woo the ladies like the other males, he just seems to be interested in food. I hope he doesn't turn out to be a fat poof.
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IF he does he'll be one lonely boy George won't he?;)
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Adam wrote:I hope he doesn't turn out to be a fat poof.
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I'm still at work, but when I get home I'll post the pictures of bubba that I took last spring. He looked very similar. It's just a good sign he's in condition for spawning, IMO. Mine showed the same vent and what not.

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Post by Adam »

Cheers guys at least I know it's a male now and that it doesn't have any health problems. I was starting to get a bit worried as I have never seen such a plump zebra .

Barbie, it would be nice to see some pictures of Bubba.
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Definately at fat one,male at that!! I'm not sureprised he can't be bothered "wooing" the luvely ladies. He's probably scared he will miss out on a feed. :lol:

Going with the general consensus here, I would agree that he is just fine? Is it frozen or fresh shrimp?

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I'm having gallery difficulties, basically swahili for I pissed off the script gods, so I'm stuck not uploading too many, and these aren't directly linkable because of their format. Grrrr, some days I hate computers. They seem to hate me back, so I guess it's all fair ;)

http://www.fishaholics.org/phpBB2/album ... user_id=52

Is the addy of the gallery. I also uploaded the picture of the first female that spawned. That was within a month or a bit less of the day they spawned.

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Think this female is in condition enough? Now if I can just figure out what I'm missing in trying to get them triggered! Here are the rest of the pictures I took of them last night.

http://www.plecos.net/images/L134female2.jpg
http://www.plecos.net/images/L134female4.jpg
http://www.plecos.net/images/L134female5.jpg
http://www.plecos.net/images/L134female8.jpg
http://www.plecos.net/images/L134female9.jpg
http://www.plecos.net/images/L134females.jpg
http://www.plecos.net/images/L134females2.jpg
http://www.plecos.net/images/L134females3.jpg

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very nice and fat fishes you got there. they are in good hands
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