FuglyDragon Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Anyone out there trying to breed these guys have any extra females ? I am now fairly sure that all 4 of mine are males So its unlikely I am going to have much success spawning them at the moment. I have one smaller juvinille that may turn out to be female, but he / she is at least a year away from being mature. Conversely if anyone needs a male if have some spares If you are wondering how to tell male from female look at the cheeks, if it has longish interopercular odontodes 'spiny whiskers' then its male. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljtan55 Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I've got 2 males as well, no luck finding the females for me. They're really hard to come by unfortunately, i've heard the suppliers purposely keep all the females to stop ppl breeding em. good luck with the hunt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserole Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I'm starting to fell I'm in the same boat as you. I have to nice males, bought what I thought was a female just a little bit smaller and a youngster. I am now getting the felling the fish I thought was a female is in fact a male and the youngster is looking that it's heading down that path too. So yeah anyone got a spare female or 2 :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuglyDragon Posted June 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I found out the hard way that the whole 'white belly' thing is very misleading. I asked my LFS guy to get me a couple of L260 from the importer that had white bellies and small or no odontodes when they arrived it all looked very promising , but a year later I'm fairly convinced both are males. I have one smaller fish (from 2, lost one) from the recent shipment but its too small / young to tell. Although I notice it is behaving very much like a male, has its own cave, dosnt come out much. So between just us three we have 8 males and a couple of maybe's whats then odds of that then ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilah Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 Just thought I'd say that female hypans can and do claim a cave sometimes and will fan aswell, so dont lose hope yet. The belly thing doesn't always work either but yeah there are a hell of a lot of males around. I don't see how the importers can hold onto all the females either when unsexable fish are being sold, prob just a matter of time before the smaller ones around become mature and a few females pop up. Look on the bright side haha Nice pics too mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr pleco Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 thats my bright side shane does it work for you ?;lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilah Posted June 23, 2007 Report Share Posted June 23, 2007 HAHA NOPE! Actually, every now and then, my whiptail fry proved that. Still waiting for a male snowball though...oneday maybe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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