Found another three

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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Found another three

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After a 16 hours drive I now have another three members of the family.

I believe this to be a female:

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This one I'm unsure of:

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And this one would be the male:

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What do you think?

They're all a minimum of 7cm, nr1 is the smallest at 7, nr 3 is the largest at 9cm.
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Post by Tom Kvitnes »

Congrats with the new members McEve :D

I am unsure regarding gender.
Except for the male on pic 3 of course.

But my best guess is that number 2 is a female



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Post by husky_jim »

IMO number 2 is a female and 3 a male.Now as for number 1 judging by the shape it looks like a male but the absence of long inopercular spines resembles a female.

How big are these fish?
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Post by Des »

McEve,

16 hours is a pretty long drive !!!!!At least it was worth it.

No1 Female (not 100% certain )
No2 Female
No3 Male

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Post by McEve »

Thanks for your opinions guys :D I feel pretty surtain it's two females and one male now. They seem to be settling in fine

It was a long drive Des, we split it over two days and made a weekend trip out of it. A good excuse to get out of the city :D
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Well done McEve, three beautiful specimens there :D . I would say that the top two are female and the bottom one a male. Well worth the 16 hour drive I would say :wink: .
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I think I have a blind spot i honestly cannot see any noticable difference betweeen all 3 - they all look female...argggghhh im never going to get the hang of this....im going to post up some pics of mine shortly so hopefully i can get some of your expert opinions (i think i have all males)
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Post by Rob »

Might as well join the genreal consensus....female, female, male.

oh and tha last one's called george.

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Post by McEve »

What's the other two called then? :wink:

Thanks for looking at them Rob and Adam :D

Jo, look at the cheek odontodes, they're very long on the male, that's why it's easy enough to identify an adult male. It's the younger ones, and the difference between a subdominant male and a female that can be tricky....

Rob Adam and Des is usually spot on though!
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Post by gianniz »

Female,
Male, (check out the size where the face curves. if it starts from the pectorial side fin then its a female but this one comes out a bit then curves in just like the third picture)
Male
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