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Found another three
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:09 am
by McEve
After a 16 hours drive I now have another three members of the family.
I believe this to be a female:
This one I'm unsure of:
And this one would be the male:
What do you think?
They're all a minimum of 7cm, nr1 is the smallest at 7, nr 3 is the largest at 9cm.
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:37 am
by Tom Kvitnes
Congrats with the new members McEve
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
Regards
Tom
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:10 am
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?
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:17 am
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
Regards,
Des.
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:47 am
by McEve
Thanks for your opinions guys
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
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 3:16 am
by Adam
Well done McEve, three beautiful specimens there
. I would say that the top two are female and the bottom one a male. Well worth the 16 hour drive I would say
.
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 3:36 am
by Jo
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)
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:40 am
by Rob
Might as well join the genreal consensus....female, female, male.
oh and tha last one's called george.
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:55 pm
by McEve
What's the other two called then?
Thanks for looking at them Rob and Adam
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!
Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 3:31 am
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