sex my jags, please

[fishguts]

ya man you deff have a male and female. hope they breed for ya

 

[a/m]

thanks a lot. i have read a few jag sexing threads and, for some reason, I still have a hard time telling them apart. helps now that I have my own examples. wow, so the female is the aggressive one...who would have thought. I guess that's good news, then. I will keep the male (darker one) then and get rid of the female. I wish I had room to keep the female, too, but I don't.

I usually sex Jags by the absence of spots under the line running from the eye to the gill plate.
No spots = female spots = male
So far this has been accurate, but not confirmed by someone that knows what they’re talking about.
Vertical and horizontal bar mean nothing, they come and go on all my jags.

In short if it’s really important to know the answer, contact Ken Davis.
At our local auction a few weeks ago I watched him properly name and sex hundreds of fish at a quick glance.
When I buy fish from him, I always get half female and half male..
This dude is amazing when it comes to sexing fish.

Oh, BTW, my male is much more aggressive than my female.

 

[pwmin]

I usually sex Jags by the absence of spots under the line running from the eye to the gill plate.
No spots = female spots = male
So far this has been accurate, but not confirmed by someone that knows what they’re talking about.
Vertical and horizontal bar mean nothing, they come and go on all my jags.

In short if it’s really important to know the answer, contact Ken Davis.
At our local auction a few weeks ago I watched him properly name and sex hundreds of fish at a quick glance.
When I buy fish from him, I always get half female and half male..
This dude is amazing when it comes to sexing fish.

Oh, BTW, my male is much more aggressive than my female.

cool, thanks. it's not that critical. I needed to keep the calmest one and i was going to do so wether it was female or male. I'm glad it's male, though. Hopefully, it will turn out as nice as the female is starting to.

 

[pwmin]

I took the female jag out and quickly thereafter, the male lightened up and became a little more "aggressive". I tried and tried for non-flash pix, but couldn't, so here are a few new ones.

 

[Bderick67]

Hey Paul that female you gave me had laid eggs, have her with a male that may still not be mature enough to fertilize the eggs though. The eggs turned white and are no good but I think I will keep her with taht male just cause they cohabitat so well.

 

[pwmin]

Hey Paul that female you gave me had laid eggs, have her with a male that may still not be mature enough to fertilize the eggs though. The eggs turned white and are no good but I think I will keep her with taht male just cause they cohabitat so well.

That's cool. Hope they fertilize sometime. I would offer to lend my male if you wanted to try to breed them, but the female was more aggressive and had the male at bay w/ torn fins...might not work out.

 

[Bderick67]

Thanks, I've got two larger males 8.5" and 6.5" but I figure these two are getting along so well, why chance messing thing up.

 

[pwmin]

Thanks, I've got two larger males 8.5" and 6.5" but I figure these two are getting along so well, why chance messing thing up.

That's cool. I'm sure the male w/ catch up in its sexual maturity and you will have some fry



BTW, this male is about 6 inches now (was about 4.5 when I started this post).

 

[pwmin]

now @ about 7 inches. I put a new fish in the tank and it colored up pretty nicely. It was flaring and checking it out, but nothing beyond that. I feel blessed to have a pretty calm male, just hope it stays that way. It's pattern is starting to break up, too