My f1 Festae

[90cat]

Nice Specimen

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

nice, thats a female by the way, you can tell because of the black on the dorsal fin, males dont get this.

how big is she?

she will get deeper red/orange as maturing..

 

[Aenemax13]

nice, thats a female by the way, you can tell because of the black on the dorsal fin, males dont get this.

how big is she?

she will get deeper red/orange as maturing..

that picture was taken about 3 weeks ago shes bigger now about 4.5 i'd say she always has an appetite.


yea its what i thought first, but i thought it was odd how she outgrew the rest of them


and the seller was John Rambo

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=139189&highlight=killafornia

parents

 

[Militis]

nice, thats a female by the way, you can tell because of the black on the dorsal fin, males dont get this.

how big is she?

she will get deeper red/orange as maturing..

Wow aint you mr expert O_O

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

that picture was taken about 3 weeks ago shes bigger now about 4.5 i'd say she always has an appetite.


yea its what i thought first, but i thought it was odd how she outgrew the rest of them


and the seller was John Rambo

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=139189&highlight=killafornia

parents

nice parents, has it still got the defined black on the dorsal?? festae are quite well known for disguising as the opposite sex but that first pic is a female.

got any new pics??

yeh its strange, i have a female F1 grammodes in my batch of 6 and she is bigger then all the rest and they started at roughly the same size..

Wow aint you mr expert O_O

what was the point?

 

[Aenemax13]

yea thats why i couldnt make up my mind either he/she loses it from time to time, so im still not 100% convinced about the sex, no pics atm fish are sleeping :O hehe

 

[Militis]

nice parents, has it still got the defined black on the dorsal?? festae are quite well known for disguising as the opposite sex but that first pic is a female.

got any new pics??

yeh its strange, i have a female F1 grammodes in my batch of 6 and she is bigger then all the rest and they started at roughly the same size..


what was the point?

No point just thought it was pretty cool how you knew that

 

[Aenemax13]

my goal for a male festae is one exactly like this one http://www.cichlids.com/uploads/tx_usercichlids/01_Male_Festae_28.jpg

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

yea thats why i couldnt make up my mind either he/she loses it from time to time, so im still not 100% convinced about the sex, no pics atm fish are sleeping :O hehe

yeh well they can loose it partially, whe there stressed it can go into a bluer colour and it may seem to decrease in size.

another way to sec is the cyan spots on the body, as it matures it should loose them, they dont always loose all of the cyan colouration so its not an accurate way.

as you can see in the link you posted to J rambo's thread, the male is covered in cyan spots but the female has next to none, your female may still have some at this stage because its not fully matured yet.

can u get any updated pics?

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

No point just thought it was pretty cool how you knew that

yeh well.. i used to own a breeding pair.

i know alot more then you think i do

my goal for a male festae is one exactly like this one http://www.cichlids.com/uploads/tx_usercichlids/01_Male_Festae_28.jpg

you have a batch of 10 right? i would have thought you will get a male like him, i used to have an F1 pair and the male was similar to the linked one except nicer.

you got any pics of the other lot??