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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:

looks like a boy to me

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

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.

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

You can also tell by the pectoral fin cant you McEve?

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