Sexes

[fish_r_great]

Anyway to tell on these
http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di...d=21&pCatId=839
http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di...d=21&pCatId=843
and these
http/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di...=21&pCatId=1663

I have something that looks like the last one but its stripes are only 1/2 as long as the one in the pictures is there any other common type of cichlid he could be?

THX

 

[semper fi]

there are ways to guesstimate the sex of africans. eggs spots, color variations, etc... the only effective way to sex them though is through venting the fish in question. venting though is not easy to do and does take some practice to perfect. the fish will have to small holes in the anal region. one is for excretion of body waste and the other is for reproduction. you want to net the fish and keeping your hands wet so as not to remove the slime coat, flip the fish over and examine the two holes. if the two holes are perfectly round it is a male, if one is round and one oval shaped, it is a female.

you can quesstimate on the lab by the black stripe on the top fin. the males is more pronounced. with the zebra the egg spots can be a way. again these are only guesstimation practices.

sounds like you may have a kennyi.

 

[thecichlidaddict]

Sexing Yellow Labs:

There is no sure way to visibly sex them... at least no sure way, as semper already said. Unfortunately the black markings is not reliable either, I've had females with just as much in the way of black markings, though if the anal and pelvic fins have no black at all the chances are best it is female. In general you need to observe the behavior. Males will be more aggressive, show more nesting behavior, and in general play attraction games with the females. When the fish are juveniles there is no accurate way to sex them, and even venting is extremely hard at that age. The good news is that sexing these fish is not to important, males can co-exist together with only minor aggression.

Red Zebra:

Once again as juveniles it is pretty much impossible. As they grow the males will develope blue coloring. How much blue depends on the fish, but it ranges from a blue tint to the caudal fin to quite blue all over.


I agree, the chances are good that the last one may Maylandia Lombardoi. If so then the males eventually go yellow. Body shape is a better way of determining species, as the vertical stripes are shared by a number of species.