Help sexing please....

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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Help sexing please....

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After a 430 mile round trip down to Exeter today,I'm now the proud owner of another zeb. Any ideas as to which sex...I'm thinking female:

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looks like a boy to me :)
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Oh well....Thanks anyway McEve

I still need to undestand the differences between males and females...I look at mine at sometimes and I see male traits and then other times see female traits. It's really annoying :?
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It might be a little easier to tell if you had some side view shots too.

I'm pretty rubbish a sexing them too so I couldn't really say for sure, sorry. :?
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Plastic Mac wrote:Oh well....Thanks anyway McEve

I still need to undestand the differences between males and females...I look at mine at sometimes and I see male traits and then other times see female traits. It's really annoying :?
That's true, one can see male traits in a female, and vice versa. But what makes me believe this one is a male is the long cheek odontoded and quite a lot of odontodes on the pectoral fins, and the body shape. The body shape alone is nothing to make a sure identification on, but combined with the odontodes I'd say it's a male.

I'm sorry :(

I've written a bit about sexing here: http://www.zebrapleco.com/article2.php
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You can also tell by the pectoral fin cant you McEve?
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Shell231 wrote:You can also tell by the pectoral fin cant you McEve?
You mean the shape of them? I can't, as you might have noticed reading the article. I know Rob can :)
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