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Not a cichlid expert but heres what i know about rams...
Female rams have a pinkish belly when in breeding mood. Other way to identify would be in terms of dorsal fins. Larger being male. But not hundred percent accurate.
Hi.
cichlids experts,
Kindly advise on differentiating the gender of rams?
regards
Jonathan
Not a cichlid expert but heres what i know about rams...
Female rams have a pinkish belly when in breeding mood. Other way to identify would be in terms of dorsal fins. Larger being male. But not hundred percent accurate.
What Thio at Biotope suggested was to look at the first 3 lines of the dorsal fin... The fins on the males are longer than the females...
The other method will be the belly... But again, sometimes all the rams seemed to have a pinkish belly...
Well, depend on the condition the rams come from. Low pH rams, male will have the first 3 rays of the the dorsal extended like A. Trifisciata. Normal ph ram, male will have have very striking black on the first 3 rays of the dorsal.
I was in 2 different LFS trying to sex ram, using ways like pink belly and first 3 rays of dorsal fin, but can't find one that I can tell is male. Seems like all have pink belly and about equal length for first 3 rays of dorsal fins. Is it more common to find female ram in LFS?
yup..
The trend is that the release the same gender batch by batch. tis time all female, next round all male.
Oh is it? Interesting to hear that. It must be more work for the farm to separate the sexes before selling them.Originally Posted by joopsg
Yup... This seemed to be the case... Biotope mentioned this before when a friend was buying Rams from him... Had a hard time trying to find females in the tank then...
but if rams are like apisto, it is easy to make the brood single sex..
Low ph but high temp= mostly male
If i remeber correctly
meaning neutral pH but low temp= mostly female
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