Help sexing L201

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Furcifer158
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Help sexing L201

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Bought theses guys about 3 years ago. Was rearranging some tanks and thought they might be big enough by this point.
Let me know what you think
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I'm no expert but I'd say the very top one and bottom left one are both female?
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The photos don't show odontodes well on any of them, so I would imagine that they (esp. the males) are not in great breeding condition, but here are my thoughts, based strictly on body shape. The fish marked F ? have wider hips than the expected males, but do not show the roundness through the midsection that I would expect for well conditioned females. So they could still be males (but I think not).

Two males, one female and four possible females, IMHO.

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Thank you for the replies. I tried to get photos of their pectoral fins, but they all looked about the same
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One of the pictures is of the same fish, can't remember which one though.
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The rest
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You definitely have a female heavy group. Should be good for spawning. Goodluck
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