Just gotten a red terror...any info

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VRWC;3385318; said:
Yes, thats correct.



They do for the most part. I remember Balton had a pair striped while spawning I believe. This is his fish in the video.

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I thought the exact same and of all the festae Ive had, no males ever had black in the dorsal either. It wasnt until someone did a thread about this very topic that I started seeing males with black as well.



I think once they reach a certain size, the blue spangling is a pretty accurate way to tell as well...maybe not 100%, but what, besides venting, is?

Heres my old pair, with the lack of bars on the male. He didnt like her and she died eventually. I still have this male and he is paired up with a 6 inch female as we speak. Hopefully they will give me some fry:

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Once they get large enough male festae have a more robust body shape than female festae, even if they dont lose their stripes male festae really began to pack on serious body mass at around 8". They truly are amazing fish and one of my all time favorites. Back in 1997 I had 15" wild male festae. He was a complete beast that was able to spar with a larger dovii.
 
Nice. They are one of my favorites too. The male in my picture above is the biggest Ive had and he is about 10 inches. I got him in Nov 07 as a 2 inch fry. He probably weighs about a pound.
 
flowerpower;3385268; said:
Those stripes fade while spawning I think.
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Acutally males get the stripes when spawning.

VRWC;3385318; said:
They do for the most part. I remember Balton had a pair striped while spawning I believe. This is his fish in the video.

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The male Festae in my avatar is one of the fry from that video. He's about 10" now.
 
balton777;3385764; said:
Acutally males get the stripes when spawning.



The male Festae in my avatar is one of the fry from that video. He's about 10" now.
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100% accurate - males bars are more pronounced @ breeding.
my male when seperated from the F is dark maroon w/ blue spangling @ 11" he is 100% intolerant of any and all other fish including his mate.
They only get along for a few weeks after spawning. When the fry are about 6 weeks old he'll try to kill his mate even in a 6' long tank.
 
^^^ agree ^^^ :) except my pair have been together forever just nipping a light pushing here and there but other than that nothing serious but very intolerant of any other fish
 
males dont loose there stripes they only show them off when mating occurs or when angry banging the glass in my experiance..
 
RonL1989;3388042; said:
males dont loose there stripes they only show them off when mating occurs or when angry banging the glass in my experiance..
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I have found that male festae do lose their stripes..Kind of anyway. The black coloring tends to fade away but the outline of the stripe tends to remain. I have had male festae who were spawning still not regain their stripes. The fish that I mentioned earlier in this thread (15" wild male) lost his stripes at 8" and never regained them even when he spawned. He was a colombian variant.
 
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