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Another rainbow fish question from the newby


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I bought my drawf neon rainbow fish from a LFS. I purposely bought 2 males (red fins) and 4 females (yellow fins) striving to have a more balanced group. The 2 males dance and flare for the females and get a "breeding stripe" of yellow on their backs. This morning, I noticed one of the yellow tailed "females" dancing and has a "breeding stripe" as well. Do the females get this as they mature? Or is a male in female colors? Thank you for any advice!

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Ive never had rainbows, so take this as a grain of salt. But I would bet that if its behaving like a male that it is a male, you'll find out when they go gravid with eggs which are which.  Alot of subdominant males will have less color, also I know that some egg scattering fish have early maturing males that wont have good color and sometimes smaller in size too.

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