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Help sexing these Macmasteri?

yuzo

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I received this pair of A. Macmasteri today and was hoping someone could help confirm the sex of these fish?

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boofeng

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I'm not good at this, but both look male to me, because of the tail fin colour pattern (red edges on top and bottom), the head colours (quite a bit of red and blue markings), and the dorsal and anal fins look quite elongated (in females the end portion wouldn't extend out as much).
 

Apsnake

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They are both males my friend sorry to disappoint but I would say almost definitely they are two males funnily enough I was just about to post a similar subject I'll make a new thread but check it out I have a suspicious looking macmasteri female who is massive and very feisty is starting to look a little colourful almost like a male but need a second opinion I think
 

yuzo

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I suspected the same but still have an ounce of hope that the 1st fish could be an extremely colorful female :p.
 

chris1805

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If your macmasteri would have been a wild caught specimen i would have said the first one was a female. It shows black in it's ventral fins which normally in the macmasteri group indicate female. However with all these tank bred species it becomes very hard.
 

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