To me, the pectoral hard ray it's very broad, and shows a male. Interopercular and pectoral odontes, although show a female, can be smaller for dominance or/and stress.
The fish is adult, about 9 cm. Is quite slim and a bit pale in colour. According to the seller, is alone since a couple of months in a 60 l tank, with no other fish.
I'm looking for a female, but I have doubts with this individual
I have 2 females with colored tummies. They've spawned no problem, so obviously the males don't mind too badly ;). It's not the norm, but it definitely can happen. This is a picture of my adult male. Notice the huge odontodes. My females have some growth, but it lays mainly in the groove, much like your fish pictured.
Yeah, I have two males... but one of them had the same look of this... the genital papila appears to be a female, but I'm not sure for the belly and odontes.
My males are clearly males:
then, the new fish is a female? sure?
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I have 3 females, and no male, so U can visit me in Croatia, and then we can change L260, you give me male i give you female...
After that, i will show you Adriatic see and we can get drunk with Cro beer and celebrate in to tha night
Cro women like egzotic ppl, so viva la Espana
It looks like a female but it's a little underfed, feed her heavily for a week or two with frozen cyclops, brine shrimps and similar food and you will see a nice rounded belly ripped with eggs...if you keep her with the other she maybe not get so much food in the competition with the males.
One good trick if you want to breed species that is to keep males and females separated for some weeks and feed them heavily and after that put them together.
I know it's little underfed at the LFS, but it's eating a lot now at home and in a few weeks will be in perfect shape. With the males I have the opposite problem, I think they are a bit overweigth...
