How to ID / Sex Convict Male and Female

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Ransom

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Hay all lots of people saying about convicts etc are they male or female etc,

Normally you can not sex them untill they are aprox 1inch in size

There are various strains of Convcits (albino, black striped blues and others)

I have put togeather a few pics to show you how to check your fish male or female, and to also show my fish off hehe :)

Ok the Males are Plain colours
Striped Males are just black / grey / white Stripped,
Albino Males All Pink / White


Females Have more colours on them
Striped Females have Red / Orange on there under bellys and top fin (mostly the underbelly,)
Abino Females have orange on there under bellys and top fin,

Also Males are Larger in size than the females and the females can and will breed from 1" in size

See the pictures for clarification,
And if anyone else has other pics of m /f they could add them,

1st 2 pics are Males, rest are Females Stripped and Albino

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albino con female1.JPG

albino female con2.JPG

female con2.JPG

female con3.JPG

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thanks dude that is cool ..

nice fishes u have ..
 
thats the same orangeish color a couple of my females have. however my females are not as colorful as that, wow!

also all of my females only have a tiny tiny patch of that metallic orange on their bellies and no where else. yours are far more attractive then my own thats for certain. i just hope that doesn't effect their spawning. must the fry be separated at any point and be put into a new tank? i like where u put ur tank! kinda reminds me of someone else's... lol

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