flower horn fish

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Question

my fh please identify my flower horn's sex male/female

Answer
Hi Selvaguru,
  Unfortunately you cannot tell the sex of a flowerhorn, particularly a young one just by looking at it in a photo. This is for two reasons: first, they aren't necessarily sexually dimorphic at that stage. Second, depending on which species where used to make the flowerhorn (flowerhorns are manmade fish), their sex may not even be determined by that size. For example, one of the species used in flowerhorns is the midas cichlid and with midas cichlids sex is determined socially, i.e., the kids grow up to a certain size and only then do they "decide" which sex to become (it is not genetically determined like it is in humans).

-- Ron
  rcoleman@cichlidresearch.com
  Cichlid Research Home Page <http://cichlidresearch.com>

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