Metro, the gold severum, has been growing REALLY quickly. As you probably all know, these are one of the hardest breeds to sex while still juveniles. Metro is as big around as my blood parrot now and had started developing the typical severum face "squiggles" in red. The lines are mainly on his/her upper jaw (still white on the lower). Any ideas of what sex it is?
2007-04-15 12:13:48 · 1 answers · asked by Barb R 5 in Pets ➔ Fish
MM - I figured as much. The LFS guy swore up and down it was female from checking the fins. Of course, being a female in the fish store is akin to a woman telling an auto mechanic he's wrong about a car :)
2007-04-15 13:00:56 · update #1
When I was breeding golds that squiggle on the face seemed to come up faster and more prominently on the males than on females. Or that is to say fish that later were readily identifiable as males. Obviously it was far, far from perfect, but after a while I could guess about 60-75% of them or so based on that feature. If the lines jump out onto the operculum very quickly, that seemed to be an additional indicator it's a male, but again, noting positive and that was when comparing a whole brood to each other. So if I HAD to guess, I would guess Metro is a male. Like you say, tough one to sex early.
Sorry I couldn't help more
MM
2007-04-15 12:25:09 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋