Venting your plecos

Zebrapl3co · Post by **Zebrapl3co** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:54 pm

Hi, I am not sure if this ever came up, but I see all these pictures and stuff the give you hint of a male or female. But not all are so easy to pin point.
I've known that in the fish hobby, some people vent their fish to determine the sexes. How come this is not done or ever documented here?

zebra046 · Post by **zebra046** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:29 pm

smithrc · Post by **smithrc** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:55 pm

Anyone got any actual comments on this method??

I've looked at ours but never been able to compare....

Zebrapl3co · Post by **Zebrapl3co** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:28 pm

Wow, zebra046. Your picture says everything. These should be posted on the Sex ID web page. They go a long way for makeing positive ID of sexing zebra pleco.

Thank you.

Frontyking · Post by **Frontyking** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:57 am

At what age are you able to vent sex them from? Does the male always have that high concentration of black dots?

Nick.

alga · Post by **alga** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:29 am

zebra046, I must say, well, I'm

. First off what a great set of photos. Were those fish isolated? or in the tank with photo from the bottom? What size were they?

Finally, do you also work at a "mansion" taking photo's in a grotto?

thanks-

PanaqueL27 · Post by **PanaqueL27** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:15 pm

Great pics i will be needing these i a few years lol.

onemisterchristian · Post by **onemisterchristian** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:52 am

I'm with smithrc on this one. Why isn't this method far more widespread, it seems to be quite definite, judging by the pictures. Sorry if I sound completely naive, but how is a fish vent sexed? Is it dangerous for the fish at all?

smithrc · Post by **smithrc** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:42 pm

from what I've read in the past - its believed that males are pointy, females rounded