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picked these zeb's up on the 14/12/2006, very lucky to get hold off zebra's here in australia. manage to find 3 adults 7 years old 2 males & 1 female? believed to be wild caught.

male 1 didn't want his photo taken ( couldn't get him out of his cave )
male 2 9cm has a cave of his own
female 8cm stays in a hollow log looking through her window.
they have never spawned for the person who had them, he keeped them in water temp 25*c not warm enough i believe.

can you confirm that this is a pair, thankyou.





male 2



female 3



female 3 with a view

looks good to me...

2 nice mature males and a mature female

Is she fat?

P.s. If I emigrate - I want your number - there is no way I could live without my plecs...

I only see 2 males, no girl.
Maybe the one in the cave?

the top pic with 2 zebras in it both look like males to me too...

Would say both are males, no way to tell the third

Got to say i don't see any Females either

looks like our hairy female... - a top view might help.

smithrc


the first photo shows male on the left, female ? on the right. these two are both 7 years old brought up under the same conditions. if you take note of the pectoral fins, the one on the right has very fine fins & much smaller & thinner hairs ( odontodes ). looks like a male in the head but it stays in the log(bottom photo).

thanks for your comments so far, hope to get more, i know your out there McEve & Rob.

hmm... I looked at the 2 in the first pic and said both males...

Time will tell.

smithrc

so did i when i first looked at them, as you say time will tell.

Looks like 2 males to me.. but I've been wrong before

Either way, both need conditioning before they can prove us all wrong!

hi

2 very nice male. seem to be wildcought to me, too. but i can't see any female ?!

The male in picture 1 & 2 looks like it has deformed fins. They seem to turn upwards in the second picture.

McEve wrote:Looks like 2 males to me.. but I've been wrong before

Either way, both need conditioning before they can prove us all wrong!

McEve

i feed new life spectrum,spectrum H2O stable wafers,frozen food 1/4 cube of bloodworm,brine shrimp & some times i replace brine shrimp for daphnia. i feed once a night ( at lights out ).there is some times a little bit of wafer left in the morning, is this enough to condition them up or do i feed them more often.

thanks everyone for your comments so far.

'm not familiar with the Spectrum food, but as long you give them a variety of mainly proteinbased food, supplemented with some greens they should be ok