More New Questions About The Umbee's I Have =]

[catfishlover106]

Hello well the question says it...Do umbee's get trailers...? but what im specifically trying to get is do both sexes get them or does the males only get it? Oh and one other thing...one of my 3 umbee's is growing faster and taller and more colorful than the rest and is taking on a black convict pair...but nothing serious...just the sometimes flaring of the convicts but the umbee doesnt do much but force its way to them. It's the most aggressive one out of anyone in the tank. It's currently about 2" and the rest of the umbee's are still 1" and one is the tiny one of them all but is just growing slower than everyone. Could this be a female or the hard to find and get male? I know from other threads saying its nearly Impossible to sex but what are the odds of a mean umbee that is getting more colorful with all the sheen and blue speckles and has the taller body and thick...?

 

[big dovii]

id belive it to be a male.... i had 4 growing up and the biggest one grew twice as fast with no black... then it just died.... no indicators or anythin

 

[catfishlover106]

id belive it to be a male.... i had 4 growing up and the biggest one grew twice as fast with no black... then it just died.... no indicators or anythin

i see it sometimes doesnt get any black markings unless i wake it up at night to see if their ok...and they get dark with the line running through the whole body...and the black spot is always their which i believe both sex gets

 

[catfishlover106]

well once it grows abit more i'll post some pics of it ok =]

 

[PMK]

there still waaaay to small to sex accurately. With the umbees im growing out when i notice i have a really aggressive one i just sepreate them from the other to prevent any unneccasary deaths becasue the one they kill could be the male your looking for.

 

[---XR---]

Hello well the question says it...Do umbee's get trailers...? but what im specifically trying to get is do both sexes get them or does the males only get it? Oh and one other thing...one of my 3 umbee's is growing faster and taller and more colorful than the rest and is taking on a black convict pair...but nothing serious...just the sometimes flaring of the convicts but the umbee doesnt do much but force its way to them. It's the most aggressive one out of anyone in the tank. It's currently about 2" and the rest of the umbee's are still 1" and one is the tiny one of them all but is just growing slower than everyone. Could this be a female or the hard to find and get male? I know from other threads saying its nearly Impossible to sex but what are the odds of a mean umbee that is getting more colorful with all the sheen and blue speckles and has the taller body and thick...?

both male and female umbees get great trailers. and PMK is correct

 

[catfishlover106]

both male and female umbees get great trailers. and PMK is correct

at what size or age do they start getting them?

 

[catfishlover106]

there still waaaay to small to sex accurately. With the umbees im growing out when i notice i have a really aggressive one i just sepreate them from the other to prevent any unneccasary deaths becasue the one they kill could be the male your looking for.

yea thats true =] well i'll go to my LFS and get some supplies to make my own divider to seperate them like you are doing with yours =] Say PMK do you have any pics of your thats growing or any current threads you made with pics of your umbees right now? I would love to see them

 

[---XR---]

at what size or age do they start getting them?

all fish are different, not all fish do get the trialers. if they do get trailers, it will start young, mabey around 3", i had very nice ones on my 11" female who passed last year.

 

[catfishlover106]

all fish are different, not all fish do get the trialers. if they do get trailers, it will start young, mabey around 3", i had very nice ones on my 11" female who passed last year.

oh ok and sorry about you loss =/ must have sucked to lose something really beautiful