I really want a male, so if this is a female then off it goes to the lfs. but i need some help lol
oh yeah and i couldnt pass it up when my gold severum posed
oh yeah and i couldnt pass it up when my gold severum posed
Male or Female Gold Saum?
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I also say female. The rounded dorsal and anal fins are one of the tells, but sometimes its not the case.
then in to the pet store he goes! now i guess the question is...where to get a male? lol or should i just get a royal from shark aquarium?
thats what i hoped for a while, but i saw some in pet stores much smaller and had way more gold on their fins so everything together helped me come to the conclusion! well hes at the pet store along with a bunch of other fish lol
I've had numerous gt's and have bread them and I find that it is actually fairly easy to sex a good specimen when it is young. Males will often have better colour in the dorsal fin...not the red area, but the area below. They'll have more of the blue green spangles there whereas females have relatively little colour there, just pale green. Your fish doesn't show much colour there, so I think it's female. Also, females tend to get those little black spots on the operculum when in a mood, and they're pretty prominent on your fish. Males don't often exhibit those spots.
Well, I guess I was wrong. Theres a first time for everything I guess. There was one other time when I thought that I was wrong but as it turned out I was mistaken.