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2 lone males will likely work; only get a female if you want to breed them (which usually doesn't work well in a community aquarium); if you do get a female then only 1m/1f.
I believe this one is a female:
And here she is next to a male and you can see the difference in dorsal fin if nothing else. In case you are wondering that is my subdominant male; there is a larger more colourful dominant male in the aquarium.
if you are in usa aquaticclarity has some for sale you could ask him if he has a female.
conversely if you are very very patient and mine breed i can send you a female in 9 or 12 months depending on when they are old enough to breed (if you are in usa).
Last but least you can accept them as...
I think that the 4th picture is a male. When i go downstairs i'll get a picture of the one(s) I have that i think are females. They look very different than the males.
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What species; i also want to comment that the species here makes a huge difference. I was able to keep 4 ortegai in a 65 (1m 3f) and all 3f had distinct territories and bred at the same time); however a 65 (18x48) is a lot larger than a 20 long (12x30); i found my male agassizi fairly...
Some claim that in a small container like an aquarium having 2 female will reduce the stress on a single female as there are more targets; but i've found it make things worse since there is the potential for the two females to fight; though i have to admit it depends a lot on the species, how...
As i mentioned a bit back my a. sp ipiranga finally bred after a year+; for some reason at least by the time i noticed them the frys were a lot larger than other species (such as winkelfleck); is this due to mouth brooding; does the mother somehow feed the frys or just a characterisitic of this...
Winkelfleck is the only species i own where the female will bring her brood to me to feed. 1/2 the species i own the female runs from me when i feed them - so take that with a grain of salt if you end up with them - this is my male when young; he's a year older now; according to Tom's pages...
The one male i saw today seemed colour up but was mostly blue - not much in the way of red. Pretty young - maybe 1 to 1.25 inch and the water is pretty dark though he was not shy to the pin point flashlight i used which allowed me to observe him. The female i saw was typical female and the other...
My view is almost all the commonly available species (macs, agasizzi, borelli, ....) are not going to be true wild form so pick the one colour you like and enjoy it. Those species that only come in one form (such as panduro and nijjensi) are likely to be close to wc form.
As for wild borelli...