What do ya think?

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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From top to bottom not including the little one
MALE
FEMALE
MALE
MALE

What do you guys think?
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I'd tend to agree - though I am not completely sold on the female.
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I am not convinced that is a female.

Does this have anything to do with this?:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0074495178
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looks like 4 rather raggedy, very mature males to me... The bottom one being the alpha
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I am not convinced that is a female.

Does this have anything to do with this?:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0074495178
Yeah i asked to look at some pics from above and this is what he sent
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I think I'd be sceptical to anybody that states that "the fry seem to diseappear", and "they are kept with botia and a turtle" (!)

That would explain why one of the fish are missing chunks from the fins though... I'm amazed they have survived at all :?

good observation John..
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I guess if you got 4 raggedy males and you buy 1 of someones fry you can call it a breeding group and ask topmoney for it.
(or is this just my twisted mind?)
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BTW for your info:

http://www.l46.at/sterben_vergesellschaftung.htm

For all you guys that don't read german it's an article about having botia species as a tankmate for zebra's.
There were a lot of sudden deaths when botia's were introduced to zebra's because some botiaspecies seem to have a poisoned sting on their gillplates.
(hope i did the translation right because it's from german to english and my native language is dutch)
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