Please Sex My Carpintis
- Thread starter JcrockVA
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Pointed fins doesn't always mean it's a male but do agree with no black spot/area in dorsal fin.
Definitely male. The lack of a black spot in the dorsal fin... as females have a black spot on theirs. If that thing is alone in a 75g, you may be lucky to get it to accept a female, otherwise that's too small of a tank as it's not unheard of for Carpintis to be a little off the chain in the psycho department. I have one that fears nothing in my tank... it's the smallest fish in my tank. It challenges all comers.
A lot of carpintis females display no black in there dorsal fin. I have only had a couple that ever did and numerous that showed zero black.
Thats is definately a male. Females never develope the large head shape like that. Best to vent them to be sure though. If several are in a tank generally only one male will look like that as the others will stay subdominate in the hopes of not getting beat silly.
i hope this is true as i've got seven escondido's and they are about two and a half inches long and none of them have and black in the dorsal fin, hopefully i havn'y got seven males
i hope this is true as i've got seven escondido's and they are about two and a half inches long and none of them have and black in the dorsal fin, hopefully i havn'y got seven males
Very unlikely that you have seven males. Escondido's females seldom show much black in there dorsals, a few will, some do only when spawning, and a lot never do.
I agree 100%, two of my female escondido grow out's have little to no color at all in the dorsal. That is why I mentioned the finnage shape as well. The elongated dorsal and anal fin have been (for me at least) a much better way of sexing and small sizes 3"+. The females fins are shorter and more rounded at the tip.
