Pictures of L046 - trying to determine sex once and for all

NotNoisy · Post by **NotNoisy** » 31 Jul 2004, 21:37

Hi all,

I know you're probably sick of these requests as there's plenty of information on how to sex a zebra available, but after having had my Zebras for a year now, I'm still not sure if I have a female in my group. I find it very hard to see the difference between a female and a submissive male... the two dominant males are easy to see, but I would really appreciate if you would care to have a look and see if there might be a female in my group?

I apologize for the picture quality, I tried to do this as quick (and slow) as possible as to not stress the fish. You'll find the pictures on this adress: link removed
TIA for any advice

zebraplec · Post by **zebraplec** » 31 Jul 2004, 22:21

They all look like males to me..but very handsome chaps

kkorotev · Post by **kkorotev** » 01 Aug 2004, 00:50

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NotNoisy · Post by **NotNoisy** » 01 Aug 2004, 01:15

The numbers on the first page corresponds with the numbers on the compare all page. Nr4 is nr4 on the compare all photos as well.

It is number4 and 6 I'm hoping are females

Nr8 is the youngest, I can track it's history back 3 years. The others are older, but nr8 has gained a lot in size during the year I've had it. it was only half the size of the others when it came to my tank. I don't know how old the others are. They are about 8cm long - 3 inches.

I really would like to breed these guys, and it looks like they're doing good. Gaining weight and size, and generally looks well adjusted to life in our tank

I have them on a web cam so I can study them when they think they're alone

If there's an interest for it I can give the address when I get a higher capacity line in two weeks time...

NotNoisy · Post by **NotNoisy** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:06

I can see there's a lot of people checking the pictures. Is there really nodbody else that has an opnion about the sex of these Zebra's? Did I fail miserably in my attemt of showing each of them in a way that would allow them to be identified?

Post by **Barbie** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:11

NotNoisy, if you check the link below this one, you can see the problems there were in sexing my group. I think people are just afraid to commit to an answer, for fear of being wrong, and it's just not as easy as it sounds from pictures, IMO.

Barbie

NotNoisy · Post by **NotNoisy** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:37

I'm not asking anybody to commit to an answer - I'm only asking for an opnion. If I thought that there was a failproof way of telling I wouldn't have needed to ask for others opinions.

An opinion or two, like Zebraplec was kind enough to offer, would be greatly apreciated if anybody would like to help out.

discusion · Post by **discusion** » 01 Aug 2004, 21:02

3,6 and 7looks like my females. I`m looking on their belly shape seen from above. I think it`s quite diffcult too see the females before they get egg`s.

I was afraid that I had 1 female and 5 males, but now I can se 3 of them having bigg egg bellys

But I`m not a expert

NotNoisy · Post by **NotNoisy** » 02 Aug 2004, 09:21

Thank you Discusion and Zebraplec for taking the time and interest

NotNoisy · Post by **NotNoisy** » 19 Sep 2004, 11:02

For those interested. Nr four is a female. I now have 5 days old fry from nr four and five, which is the male

Anders · Post by **Anders** » 19 Sep 2004, 14:59

Hello NotNoisy,

I just learned a very good way of sexiing plecos. I think but IÂ´m not sure
that it counts for most of them.

According to this way numbers 3,4,6 are females and maybe also 8.

When you look at the plecos from above the second pair of belly fins (I donÂ´t
know the correct word for these fins) the males have quite distinctively bigger
than the females. I believe that the reason for this is that the males uses these
fins to aerate the eggs while guarding them (personal opinion).

I hope this was of some use.

NotNoisy · Post by **NotNoisy** » 19 Sep 2004, 22:28

That's very interesting Anders! I haven't heard this before, but it fits with what I beleive to be the numbers of each sex now after having observed them during the spawn and after.

Thank you for your suggestion, I'll check and see if it fits with other Zebra groups as well

I apreciate you interest!