How many male poly do you have ?

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Quite interesting, I aspire to breed polys one day so this is a must watch thread :)
 
I know clown fish change when the dominant female goes missing the most dominant male steps up and turns in his man card.
All my polys are female I'm pretty sure of it. I'm with DRteugelsi DRteugelsi in this I want a male! (oh that sounds soooooo bad)
 
It sounds terrible.
 
So lets hear some theories on why males are less abundant
 
Could be PH dependent like kribensis, as well as the harem idea that one male spawna with more than one female.

Could also be that a low survival chance means more females for more eggs?
 
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Could be due to females being larger and more resilient. but i doubt it.

I believe it's something based off an outside variable such as PH or temp. as this is the case for most ancient animals I.E. alligators gender based on temperature, as well as sea turtles.
You may have something there...I read at some point that polys are considered the link between reptiles and amphibians. No idea if that is true or not, but if it is temp could be the deciding factor. It only takes 3 degree variance on corn snake eggs to change the majority gender. Most reptiles are that way temp eggs or mom if live bearing are kept will change the gender of the babies.

Hendre Hendre you like it and you know it! lol
 
You may have something there...I read at some point that polys are considered the link between reptiles and amphibians. No idea if that is true or not, but if it is temp could be the deciding factor. It only takes 3 degree variance on corn snake eggs to change the majority gender. Most reptiles are that way temp eggs or mom if live bearing are kept will change the gender of the babies.

Hendre Hendre you like it and you know it! lol
Could make sense, but then there should be variance between different sources. But overall there is still a major lack of males

What lol?
 
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