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Wild A. pantalone and juveniles F1

Imrahil

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Some pics of wild A. pantalone and young F1. They reproduced in very acidic (pH < 4), soft and relatively fresh water (24,5 °C). The wild couple is full of black spots (trematods) but these are very interesting fishes.

Wild female
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Wild male
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Young F1 (3,5 months)
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Imrahil

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Hi,
Could you please help me to identify characters that may allow sexing young A. pantalone (3-4 cm) ?

In peculiar
- can I use the color of the anal fin as an indicator (blue for males; non-colored for females) ?

- can I use the feature of the first two spines of the dorsal fin? In adults, females exhibit full black spines when it is not the case in males.

Thanks in advance :)
 

Mike Wise

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At this size they are hard to sex. The juveniles with blue anals most likely are males, but some of the fish with non-colored anals might be undeveloped males, too. At this size I would expect all of the fish to show some black on the first 2 dorsal spines. I think you need to give them more time. I would also separate the juveniles with the blue anals from the fish with non-colored anal. If there are males with non-colored anals, they will show the blue more quickly. Breeding A. pantalone is not an easy feat. Congratulations!
 

Josh

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Beautiful fish! Thanks for sharing your photos. If you get a chance, upload them to our media gallery!
 

Imrahil

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Hygrocotyle, Pistia stratoites, java mouss and also Anubia and Microsorum, both these later growing not very well

 

Ekona

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The F1 look very nice - great work in raising them up. At the temp you raised them at, what ratio of M/F emerged in group F1 group?
Love the subtle rainbow color on the dorsal fin of the male and the patterning of the female as well. Thanks for sharing.
 

Ekona

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24.5 C = ~76 F so if you would lower the temp during the first 6 weeks or so of rearing the fry- more females would be produced? I'm wondering this based on Dr. Uwe Romer's presentation describing temp as being one of the primary factors in determining the gender of fishes.
 

Imrahil

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I'm finally lucky since there were finally 7 males and 6 females.

A first fry from a pair of F1 I isolated
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And an episodic mouthbreeding. A behaviour I did not know in this species.
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rr16

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They are act6ually mouthbrooding as opposed to just moving the fry around with their mouths? That's interesting! Also, the black spots? Are these common occurences due to a trematode then? I didn't realise this. Do you know which species/genus of trematode and what life-cycle stage it is?
 

Imrahil

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I don't know about these trematodes. The wild pair was fool of these black spots but the pair F1 which reproduces now at home is free of these.
 

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