K_lawns Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) Not sure if I have any males in this group of 5. Any help from would be great. Edited February 12 by K_lawns Added pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_lawns Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 (edited) They keep laying eggs but then keep eating them, has happened twice now in a week. so not sure if they are unfertilized and just all females maybe? Edited February 12 by K_lawns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK rams Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 The easiest way to tell is by behaviour. Are they pairing up? Looking at the photos I would say there are a couple of males but it's really hard to tell with black rams from photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK rams Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Basically if two of them are hanging around together, fighting the others but not each other then it's a pair. The extended rays of the male in wild rams isn't a very good indication in captive bred rams especially the different colour forms because they could well have some long finned genes in them. The purple bellies in some of the photos says female, 2 of them look male but like I said behaviour is the best indicator The one in the photo on its own looks male 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 @K_lawns here are several of my assessments... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_lawns Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 Some of the pics have a repeat in them. The really dark one with the longer 2 dorsal rays is in a couple of the pics. But thank you very much every one. It’s been driving me mental trying to figure it out myself. Especially with them laying eggs twice within a week and both times them getting eaten. Next time I am def removing the eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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