Would anyone like to play sex the cichlid AGAIN!

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• Sep 11, 2005

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Well here are the pictures of the baby fish I have now...

This is a photo of the 1st one, who is thinner than the other.

 

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• Sep 11, 2005

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Here he/she is again- note I snapped an adult neon in shot for scale- I'm estimating them at between 3-4 months old but if anyone knows different I'd be interested to hear.

 

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See the colour change? The fish will show this darker pattern when they are feeding or seeing eachother at times.

 

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Here is the other fish- this is his/her threat posture.
When the two disagree they erect dorsal fin, tip head down and sort of drift AT each other.

 

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Ok here's the second fish again

 

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More of the second fish

 

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Here we are again

 

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Here are two pics of a female I used to own, the first is her under stress, note the incredible mottling! Never saw that in my males- second is her swimming not under stress.

 

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Finally a shot or two of some males I used to own also to possibly help?

 

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Ok everyone, begin guessing! Thanks for looking either way..!

 

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• Sep 11, 2005

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Going on my paranoral ability to sex fish from just looking at them i would say two females (its worked on more than a few occasions for me when choosing "unsexable" fish) but i'm no Cichlid expert so really i havent got a clue.

 

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• Sep 11, 2005

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The second fish is a female nannacara and the other looks to be a female apistogramma or young male nannacara who hasn't gotten his coloration yet