LauraFrog
Fish Gatherer
Okay, this is just weird. I've got two crowntail pairs, a red/blue and a metallic green. After much deliberation and hair tearing I decided to spawn the red/blue first, because they are the better matched pair and also the female of the other pair is bigger than the male (who is quite young), so I'd like to give him a bit more time to grow.
I just set up the spawning tank. Neither fish is conditioned yet, but I put the female in the chimney to see how he'd respond to her. And yeep! The male started swimming around the chimney flaring, which is exactly what I expected him to do. And then the 'female' started flaring back at him, with a beard, and attacking the glass the way I would expect a male to do. Then 'she' settled down a bit and is now floating away from him, almost sideways, swimming away from him as much as possible in the round chimney.
I was convinced that she was a female and this is why:
- I put her cup next to a male's at the shop and she barred up within seconds (but she isn't doing this now)
- She has horizontal lines on her sides that are there very faintly even when she is perfectly happy and not stressed, I have never seen this in a male.
- She is a crowntail and I've never seen a CTPK in Australia, and besides, the filaments on her fins are far, far too thin to be male.
- Her ventrals are shorter than her anal fin, her anal fin is not pointed, her fins just scream female.
- I've had her for close to three weeks, and if she was a young male she would have become visibly more 'male' in that time; she hasn't changed at all
- She has the white ovi spot
Her name is Nip, it's written on the photos. Raven is the male I want to use, and they match so well seeing them side by side... the pair is class embodied, I'm hoping I can get this to work. Does anybody think there is a chance that Nip could be a male? I just can't see it personally, but the behavior... weird!
I just set up the spawning tank. Neither fish is conditioned yet, but I put the female in the chimney to see how he'd respond to her. And yeep! The male started swimming around the chimney flaring, which is exactly what I expected him to do. And then the 'female' started flaring back at him, with a beard, and attacking the glass the way I would expect a male to do. Then 'she' settled down a bit and is now floating away from him, almost sideways, swimming away from him as much as possible in the round chimney.
I was convinced that she was a female and this is why:
- I put her cup next to a male's at the shop and she barred up within seconds (but she isn't doing this now)
- She has horizontal lines on her sides that are there very faintly even when she is perfectly happy and not stressed, I have never seen this in a male.
- She is a crowntail and I've never seen a CTPK in Australia, and besides, the filaments on her fins are far, far too thin to be male.
- Her ventrals are shorter than her anal fin, her anal fin is not pointed, her fins just scream female.
- I've had her for close to three weeks, and if she was a young male she would have become visibly more 'male' in that time; she hasn't changed at all
- She has the white ovi spot
Her name is Nip, it's written on the photos. Raven is the male I want to use, and they match so well seeing them side by side... the pair is class embodied, I'm hoping I can get this to work. Does anybody think there is a chance that Nip could be a male? I just can't see it personally, but the behavior... weird!