look what i got ! :)

[flowerhornfishman]

i was cleaning my pond and i decided to put these two in my tank.
my female red dragon and red monkey flowerhorn.


my red monkey. a gift from my uncle.


my red dragon. it's starting to show red colour just behind her gills. she's only 2 inches when i first bought her about 5 weeks ago. now she's about 4 inches. man, she grows so fast !

so, what do you guys think ?

 

[Microfische]

First one looks midevil, second is a zz.

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[flowerhornfishman]

thats a female red monkey actually the male is still in the pond. quite a big hump he has.

 

[Castlk]

Nice looking fish, I like that Red Monkey. Are you going to keep them housed together?

 

[flowerhornfishman]

i was planning to but after a while my RM started to attack my RD. -_- i put her back in the pond.

 

[Microfische]

If it was sold to your uncle as red monkey he was duped.

Red devil:

Red monkey:

As you can see there's a lot of vieja in the second one.

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[flowerhornfishman]

does the length of fins differentiate it? as you can see, my fish has longer fins.
my uncle gave me the female but he kept the male. and from wht i see, his male started to fade now and his kok's getting bigger. wht does tht mean ?

 

[Microfische]

The difference is in the shape and face of a red monkey, it basically looks like a solid red vieja syn with its short snout, as opposed to Rd's longer almost beak like mouth.

All Rd's fade, some will also start developing a hump as they grow.

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[flowerhornfishman]

okay. so mine's a red devil? but its anal is shaped like a 'U', as what i know is a female. do people use the same way to identify its gender as they do on flowerhorns ?

 

[Microfische]

Yep exact same way, which goes for most cichlids.

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