View Full Version : Help me sex my vieja.....
robmcd
03-31-2008, 4:01 PM
This is my first vieja and I have no clue how to sex it... It is about 5'' right now and fast becoming one of my favorite fish.... I have a couple more larger ones at my brothers. Thanks in advance for all replys...
ShadowStryder
03-31-2008, 7:09 PM
That is nice looking Syns. Really nice color. Still needs to get larger to get an accurate sex. But my first guess would be male. Not definite though.
I was at a local fish store I'd never been to before, and they had some Viejas. i think it was the same as that one.
Do you know what species it is? i'm no Vieja expert, but it looks most similar to the Fenestratus in the cichlid-forum profiles. I'm probably wrong though.
sabotage
03-31-2008, 7:22 PM
awesome coloring!!! very trippy...
Taz2478
03-31-2008, 9:27 PM
nice Syn but I'd go female.
balton777
03-31-2008, 9:33 PM
I can't tell you the sex but it's a nice lookin' Synpillum. Hope the dorsal heals up nicely, giggedy giggedy.
DarthV
04-01-2008, 7:19 AM
Like to know how anyone sexes young adult viejas from a photo! :P
Conclusive statement: it's male until it lays eggs :)
ciciwan
04-01-2008, 8:26 AM
is it a synspillum or a melanurus
looks more like malanurus
nice fish anyway!
Modest_Man
04-01-2008, 10:31 AM
Like to know how anyone sexes young adult viejas from a photo! :P
Conclusive statement: it's male until it lays eggs :)
I couldn't agree more.
scubasteve06
04-01-2008, 10:48 AM
Nice rob did the festae try taking a chunk outta him or did you get him like that, nice looking fish though I've wanted a vieja since I discovered argentea
MsMassPoly
04-01-2008, 11:02 AM
male or female its a very nice fish with great color.
robmcd
04-01-2008, 3:10 PM
Nice rob did the festae try taking a chunk outta him or did you get him like that, nice looking fish though I've wanted a vieja since I discovered argentea
I know you would think so but its dorsal has been like that as long as I can remember...
Taz2478
04-02-2008, 1:19 AM
people tell sex by guessing or knowing :p
how about pics of the others Rob :popcorn:
ciciwan
04-02-2008, 3:41 AM
yes very special people round here on this forum:D
the real specialists cant see it by this size/age
but people on the forum can see it right away when they see a pic with a vieja without a hump on his head..female:ROFL:
first: how big is your vieja?
how old is he?