LET'S PLAY......SEX MY RTM!!!!
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LOL oh, he's very well fed haha.....most people would call me a "Madman" for the way I feed all my fish, and the variety
Damn dude, that thing is such a brute
Thank... yeah he is the only cichlid I have in a 150 gallon tank it's just him and a pleco because the female I had was always tearing his fins and I took her out so he seems to be even more interactive and begging for food all the time ... I do not feed him one or two days out the week but that only makes him more aggressive and he goes after the pleco... he eats everything and things that are not meant for him.... I reduced his variety to jumbo carnasticks,raw shrimp and tilapia.. but he also eats the algae Wafers meant for the pleco lol...
If the gill plate doesn't have spots its a female, if there are spots its a male.
Your photos are too blurry for me to see that kind of detail, and if you want an accurate ID, thats what you need to provide.
Here's what I mean.
female
male
Your photos are too blurry for me to see that kind of detail, and if you want an accurate ID, thats what you need to provide.
Here's what I mean.
female
male
Duane's photo of male and female shows a direct comparison of what to look for.. in addition to that in the...."some of Frank's fish thread" on page 9 I posted progression pics of my male .. I think Frank's fish is beginning to look like the 5th pic of my male.. I haven't been active much on The forum in a while but I know it's a running joke about Frank's pics..., I think actually these are some clear ones ...I could see the spots on his male developing rather than a solid red on the Gill plates area..
Sorry if it sounded like I'm criticizing the pics, its not about that. If you want a proper ID, certain things must be obvious (at least for me).
In order to get a clear pic, I will take bout 100 shots, and often delete 98 or 99, sometimes all, and I start over until its clear, if most are not clear enough, I don't bother keeping them.
Someone posted a pic of a carpintus the other day, with dark lighting, and to me, it looked like a female, but on closer inspection of a new pic with better lighting , and a spread dorsal, it was obviously a male, that's why I stress clarity, and proper traits and angle showing.
I hate to make mistakes, and without being able to see those things, its easy to make mistakes, because with new worlds, differences can be subtle.
For many new world cichlids its about seeing an erect dorsal, fin trailers, and proper angle of profile, but for most Parachromis its about a clear shot of the gill plate, whereas fin trailers may not be important at all.
In order to get a clear pic, I will take bout 100 shots, and often delete 98 or 99, sometimes all, and I start over until its clear, if most are not clear enough, I don't bother keeping them.
Someone posted a pic of a carpintus the other day, with dark lighting, and to me, it looked like a female, but on closer inspection of a new pic with better lighting , and a spread dorsal, it was obviously a male, that's why I stress clarity, and proper traits and angle showing.
I hate to make mistakes, and without being able to see those things, its easy to make mistakes, because with new worlds, differences can be subtle.
For many new world cichlids its about seeing an erect dorsal, fin trailers, and proper angle of profile, but for most Parachromis its about a clear shot of the gill plate, whereas fin trailers may not be important at all.
here is another pic of my male at about the same size and stage of development as franks...frank has a type of lighting that makes his more yellowish .but otherwise they look very similar...
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