Sex this Festae
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in my opinion after having about 40 festaes it looks male to me black in the dorsal dont always mean female espically at that size go under google type in festae pictures and you'll see a male with black in the dorsal anyway looks male to me just my opinion.by the way my is midtae i know you guys have no clue what that means so i'll let you know 20yrs in the hobby my favorite fish are midas and festaes and the best i could come up with is midtae i know corny but thats all i could think of but the only fish that i raise are festaes and midas and i like flowerhorns too certain ones anyway sorry for jacking the thread just thought i let you guys know thats why i'm giving my opinion because i deal with the festae species but time will tell.
Angler;3686233; said:
And you are correct, it is the male to my 4.5" breeding pair. There is even a very clear shot of a fry in the picture in the upper right corner if I remember correctly. Ill post a pic of the female along with this post. Its all in the spangling.
Heres a link to the threads with pictures of the pair: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291272
LOL. thats too funny
I just went thru the same thing with my male... it colored up just like yours and started questioning its sex. I like when they look like that thou.
I just went thru the same thing with my male... it colored up just like yours and started questioning its sex. I like when they look like that thou.The first pic is a male. Look at all the spangles on the body and dorsal fin. Def male. They get the black dorsal and stripes when breeding and black substrate enhances their darker colors.
I saw your post yesterday and refrained from guessing as I to have pics of my male lookin' real female while breeding and when the wigglers start swimming. The blue spangling can be a good give away but so is the deep orange of the females which your 1st pic showed none.......................nice psych out.
Hahaha you knew all along... I had festae for quite a while, they don't usually fool me. I go off the blueish spackles on the side of a male that usually gives it away. Female also seem to have more of a blueish tint to the black dorsal fin. Color varies you can't really go by orange or red for female, they are pretty moody fish, but I love seeing the female with deep red color. I sold mine, but I had quite the female! Someone on mfk has her.uncwnells;3686223; said:
