I took this photo yesterday at a LFS. The owner doesn't allow me to vent it so...please help.
Help ID the sex of this umbee!
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I took this photo yesterday at a LFS. The owner doesn't allow me to vent it so...please help.
If the lfs won't vent, then I wouldn't even bother. Shows what type of people they are.
Possible female maybe, going off the shape of the head but too young to tell.
Possible female maybe, going off the shape of the head but too young to tell.
Meant if the lfs wouldn't vent for you, then I say f em lol. They shouldn't give you an issue.
With the shape the torpedo head is say female but umbee females have a black in top dorsal I believe and don't color up as much as males.
I'm pretty sure I had asked the sex of my umbee on this site, but it wouldn't hurt if I ask again to be sure. This one is mine. Do you think it's a male? These photos were taken 2 or 3 months ago.
This one is the ones from the LFS, I kept asking him until he gave me a vent's photo.
As mentioned brother, if he's gonna neglect to personally show you, then I wouldn't even bother with that store anymore.
That photo could be from any other fish he had.
Only thing I can advise, is to get a small group and grow out a female on your own. By doing that, you know for sure what you have.
Your personal umbee looks male to me. Females won't be as colored as males and sport a black spot on top dorsal
Too bad, currently this is the only fish shop that has an umbee, as far as I know. The other cichlids shops here are out of stock for a few months now. (The umbee of the LFS is the last umbee he has in the stock, plus yeah, can't really blame the owner, because the shop shares 3 different owners, probably siblings. Therefore, his messenger has many 3 different admins. One of them is kinda rude, but the other 2 were good when I bought a festae.)
