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[duanes]

The festae in the 1st pic looks to be a female to me.
The black and blue area in the anterior of the dorsal, and gently sloping facial profile are both female traits.
Female below

now a male

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

H HarveyDent I also like the bigger cichlids and everything predator I have a 125 big cichlid tank with my two oscars my jack dempsey will be joining them soon I enjoy breeding cichlids I also enjoy keeping oddballs like my two baby delhezi bichirs and my pictus cats also Kolton13 get a school of pictus I know they are common but they are aggresive eaters mine steal food from my oscars lol Tilapia shrimp pellets you name it
Here is my jack dempsey I dont have pics of my oscars will work on it though

 

[Kolton13]

H HarveyDent I also like the bigger cichlids and everything predator I have a 125 big cichlid tank with my two oscars my jack dempsey will be joining them soon I enjoy breeding cichlids I also enjoy keeping oddballs like my two baby delhezi bichirs and my pictus cats also Kolton13 get a school of pictus I know they are common but they are aggresive eaters mine steal food from my oscars lol Tilapia shrimp pellets you name it
Here is my jack dempsey I dont have pics of my oscars will work on it though

Personally not a fan of Pictus, they’re very expensive for a common catfish. At my LFS I can get them 10$ where I got my synodontis decorus for 15$ and with Pictus like you said school.

 

[HarveyDent]

 

[HarveyDent]

For some reason I can't access all of my photos but I have more photos of this guy when hes colored out dark and read what else I have photos of him with no stripes and almost Brown police banging throughout his body and then a grim of blue spangly on his tail you can see to me indicate hes a Very beautiful male I also have 5 grow out in the tank with him with a divider try to get a couple of pairs out of him if anybody wants fry Or juvies when that happens

 

[HarveyDent]

There's always a possibility that I'm wrong good thing I have 5 Warner and hopefully some of them are easier to tell so I can try to pair them off

 

[duanes]

My females would often turn that brown color you mention when males were not in the tank.
Here is female with no male in the tank.

Below two females, with a male in the tank.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

I’ve had him for a little while, probably like 3-4 months. I’m not home I can see if I have a pic though.

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Lol well atleast I'm not the only one I know of that has a whip tail cat. Trying to find a male for mine tho, I'd like to try my hands at breeding em. This is my girl btw.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Lol well atleast I'm not the only one I know of that has a whip tail cat. Trying to find a male for mine tho, I'd like to try my hands at breeding em. This is my girl btw.

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Got a scientific name? I rather like that whip tail but haven’t seen it before I believe.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

Got a scientific name? I rather like that whip tail but haven’t seen it before I believe.

Dasyloricaria filamentosa.
They tend to act like plecos and breed just like em other then the fact that instead of keeping the eggs in a cave the male carries them on his lips. The male gets this kind of mustached look to him with the lil barbels on his lip, the females however only have 2 barbels on opposite sides of her lip. They are one of the few species of lip brooding fish. Here's a couple pics showing the difference between the 2 genders. Oh also instead of being strictly algae grazers they do actually prefer a meaty diet.