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I bought a couple of fish from a tank of what looked (to me) to be all male A. ortegai. I gambled on the pale runt-y one hiding behind the filter, and lucked out--she's female! All the fish in that tank should have been descendants of the ones in this other thread, and therefore...
I have an A. borellii male with a case of some external parasite (photo below). There are small, worm-like things on his sides and fins. When I first noticed them, they were no bigger than a microworm, but now the biggest ones are much thicker than that. They are on the surface of the fish...
Can sub-dominant males also have black on the first ray of their pectoral and dorsal fins? A few of the web resources I've found seem to use that to distinguish females and sneaker males, but I have a borellii I suspect is male with the black coloration.
(S)/he has gotten markedly larger and...
Three days ago, I accidentally vacuumed up my male A. borellii while doing a water change. I figured it was just a clump of java moss or subwassertang when I felt a jerk, but imagine my surprise when my poor fish went down the tube into the bucket.
He's missing a bunch of scales from one...