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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!).

Male or Female?

Male
12
63%
Female
7
37%
 
Total votes: 19

sierraaquarium
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Post by sierraaquarium »

I almost never see the pleco. He/she is always under the driftwood. Very mellow and shy, I've only seen it raise its dorsal when extremely stressed (during moves)
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Post by jerms55555 »

Is there any caves in the tank? If there is and she still stays under the drift wood I would say its a female.
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Post by sierraaquarium »

there's a few pot caves but those are occupied by a couple of rams, but even when there were no other fish in the tank (almost a year alone) it always stayed under the driftwood.

Thanks for helping. Now I have a couple of decisions to make.
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Post by Tariq »

female! :D
- 10Xadult L-46(4males, 6females)+fry
- 10Xyoung L-46(4-5 cm)
- 5Xyoung L-46(3,5 cm)
-22XDiscus(7breedingpairs)
-1xl260
-20Xcorysterbai
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Post by gemjunkie »

Well, I got the fish today and HE'S great!
Wasn't too thrilled with the trip but eating already, so none the worse for wear~
Thanks Amanda.... :D


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Post by jerms55555 »

You mean SHE!!!! :wink:
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Post by Barbie »

LOL, that's what I said! At least Pam has the 4 other adults so female or male it will have friends ;). It's going to make the widening the gene pool thing much easier in a few years to just have to swap males 6 blocks away!

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