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Hi!

I moved my tank to another house yesterday and took the oportunity to take some pictures of my P. compta's. I would appreciate some help sexing these please.

There is alot of hairy ones and I have a rough idea but trust you guys more then myself. I hope that one is a girl.

Fish 1


Fish 2


Fish3


Fish 4


Thanks in advance!

Melander

Going by headshape as well as "hairyness" on the back part of the body, the first appears to be female and the other three male.

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Mats

I agree with Mats. With that kind of sex ratio you need to keep a close eye on them when (if) they start breeding because the males can fight like demons once one is sitting on a clutch in my experience. One of mine lost his entire tail fin, although it did grow back and the fish didn't seem too troubled by it all (I was though).

MatsP wrote:Going by headshape as well as "hairyness" on the back part of the body, the first appears to be female and the other three male.

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Mats

Agreed!

Thank you for the quick replies!

It is as I thought(hoped) then, at the moment I'm just happy that the female is a female and not a fat subdued male with lack of odontodes.

Would I be better off selling 1-2 of the males to minimize any future fights? I'm afraid it will we hard to find any sexed females where I am.

Melander