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Finally arrange to take photo of my 14 zebras, but sorry for the photo loading and edited 10 into attached file to reduce the loading; Please feel free to give your opinions. Thanks

my guess

1. poss hairy female
2. m
3. f
4. m
5. m
6. m
7. f
8. poss f
9. m
10. m
11. poss hairy f
12. m dominate
13. m
14. poss f

good luck
Davo

i would say 4 and 14 are females. the rest looks males to me.

Those are some very nice zebras

A quick glance over them I would say....

1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are Females....

Nice zeb collection, imo 7,8 and 11 are fem the rest male.

Hi all,

Thanks for IDing my 14 zebras.
Seems Zebra No. 7 is a big chance to be the female.
I am happy that at least there is a female in the group.

chanett has a very good record of id'ing gender

Using the attachment option greatly reduces the loading time for those with slower connections

Great looking fish btw, they are all in very good condition!

In my opinion you have a good number of females in there.

I'm going out on a limb on a few of them as yes they look hairier that you might expect but the body shape is too female to ignore

There is a sexing thread on here somewhere for our zebs - I agreed with most that the all looked male... we've ended up with 2 spawning pairs!!

I dont suppose you know how each of them behaves / where they live??

(having said that - our "hairy female" hangs out in a cave sometimes)

Hi Smithrc,

Thanks fot the opinions.
Indeed, there are some look hairy but beheave like female.
For example, I have 7-8 caves in my tank but Zeb No. 1,3,4,8,9,11,14 they stay outside or next to the cave.
Zeb No 6 ,12 and 13 have their own prefer cave and stay in all the time.
I have only 2-3 caves that size are around 3-4cm but others around 5-6cm.
I think maybe this is the reason some male may ignore the cave and stay out of the caves.
Anyway, finger across to see what's going on in the future.