mmmm, at a guess both male, but I am no expert in Rainbow cichlids. Just looking at the fins both of them (apart from fin damage) have pointy fins...does the yellow rainbow seem more dominant? I ask that because it might explain the yellow tint, whilst the other is not so happy with a lack of colour and fin damage maybe?
Maybe this I found somewhere else hints at this too?: "Sexing when they are more mature is pretty easy. The males are noticeably bigger (almost twice as large) as the females and in breeding colors are magnificent. Their finnage also seems much longer than the females, who, while they will color up for breeding, too, are not nearly as vibrant. My males gets a brilliant orange color with bluish fins while the female gets a mustard yellow color with much more black. "
Also how come the more silver of the two has so much fin damage, is he being pushed around by the other one or is it the oscar?
Hopefully I am wrong and they are a male and female, I did initially think the yellow one would be a female as it was smaller and in the first pick the fins seemed more rounded....but I am not so sure.
Like you said, "bring on the experts!"
edit: whats a wild acara? Could it be a port acara as in my sig pics (second from right)? Have I found someone else with one of them at long last?
oh well, im sure i'll find out soon enough. experts.......
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Looks like a Royal Acara to me, lucky if it is! Look at the 8th pic down on the first post here: http
Star4 (the OP of the topic from the link) had/has (can't remember) one she called "Bailey"
Maybe it's the photos but I think that some of your fish have sunken bellies (this one and the yellow rainbow). If it is the case one particular fish is eating all the food and the others aren't getting enough....one guess which one is the most aggressive and the greediest!
yeah mine headbutts and flicks, its just that he's a very big common plec.....so he could do damage!
