Any chance female?

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Any chance female?

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Going for a hat trick of three. Any chance this one is a female as well or could it be a recessive male?
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A male nice fish :)
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Well thats not bad news, as he has just taken a cave for himself away from the dominant male and right away from the agro male who belts everything except the dominant male.
Its not a bad spot and he gets good current there as well. He should settle in and be happy there. :)
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Post by Barbie »

At that size, I'd say female, personally. I've had MUCH more butch looking females at that size. At least it gives you some hope ;).

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I would guess female on this one too, fingers crossed. :wink:
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Post by twinspots_goby »

I would also vote for a female.
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This is a difficult one, but i guess female.
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I lost this one yesterday and I am still trying to figure out why it died.

It could have been from fighting as its sides where always quite scratched.

It may have found a dead spot in the tank beside one of the caves and eaten something off like a dead glass shrimp so I have moved the cave in a bit to allow more flow.

I have a large dw in the tank and I use low ph rainwater so maybe the dw has pulled the ph down too far? I will be using higher ph town water to do wc for a while in the future.
The usually water perams are fine, no ammonia, no nitrites, nitrates 5 to 10.

The other 4 adults and the little 3.5cm juvi are all fine and acted in their usual disgusted manner (flicking their tails and such) when I uncovered they hidey spots to check them.

Just hope this is a one off incident.
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Sorry for your loss :cry:
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Sorry to hear, hope this was an incident :(
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gutted for you its a hard thing to take when they die especially when you do not know what the problem is? :(
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sorry for your loss




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Must have just been a one off as the others are still all fine.

I did take out the biggest dw and replaced it with a couple of slate tiles over the caves as it might have really been pulling the ph down.

I also took the sponge off the canister intake and got rid of the glass shrimp. The high tank temp longterm just doesn't agree with shrimp.
There was a lot of gunk trapped under the sponge so I siphoned it all out and did partial wc.

Frozen food is off the menu for a while and they will just have to get used to Hikari sinking wafers as I can put them very close to the caves and a bit of 1mm Spectrum fussy feeder pellets with the garlic in to improve their digestion.
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