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#1 CubanB

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Posted 08 April 2009 - 11:31 PM

this is my female umbee. around 15cm now. got her when she was 2.5cm. i also have another 2 growing out to try get a male

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#2 jslayz

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Posted 09 April 2009 - 12:42 AM

Hey Luke here's a few pics of the one I got off you and one of my smaller ones.

Shortly after I got her:
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Last week, hell hard to get a pic, she(?) is always moving:



Here's one of my smaller ones:


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#3 jslayz

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 03:16 PM

Here's a better snap:









#4 CubanB

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Posted 14 April 2009 - 05:03 PM

looking good mate. she's getting some size on her now too.

here's another pic of my female. although it's not quite as good quality, it shows more of her true colour. the blue is alot more intense over her body though but the camera seems to wash it out a bit


PS - JSLAYZ, if you get more than 1 male from your growouts, you know who to call smile.gif i'll do the same...

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#5 jslayz

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Posted 15 April 2009 - 12:01 PM

QUOTE (CubanB @ Apr 14 2009, 05:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
looking good mate. she's getting some size on her now too.

here's another pic of my female. although it's not quite as good quality, it shows more of her true colour. the blue is alot more intense over her body though but the camera seems to wash it out a bit


PS - JSLAYZ, if you get more than 1 male from your growouts, you know who to call smile.gif i'll do the same...



Of course I know who to call if I have more than 1 male!!
Same for you, if you have more than 1 male n mine turn out to be all female. smile.gif

Are you 100% that umbie in the pic is a female..... has heaps of blue dots on it operculum...... could be male??
So many more blue dots than mine........

J

#6 BiGz

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Posted 21 April 2009 - 08:26 PM

Nice one guys, might try take a pic of mine once I clean the glass

#7 jslayz

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Posted 22 April 2009 - 12:14 AM

QUOTE (BiGz @ Apr 21 2009, 08:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Nice one guys, might try take a pic of mine once I clean the glass


Cool BiGz!
Didn't know you had umbie(s)?
Have you got more than 1?
Do you know which sex yours is?

Looking forward to a pic smile.gif

J

#8 jslayz

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Posted 06 May 2009 - 11:25 PM

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Bigz has bought his Umbee over. Gonna look after for a bit.

Looks like a male from that batch Cubanb n Bigz got.

Jackpot we have one male in WA!!

J








#9 CubanB

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Posted 07 May 2009 - 10:01 PM

i'm not so sure thats a male hey. it looks like mine and mine is a female.
here's a few current pics of mine for comparison, and 2 pics of what a male should look like at that size

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#10 BiGz

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Posted 09 May 2009 - 12:16 AM

Guess we will know shortly.. the suspense is killing me haha

#11 jslayz

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Posted 10 May 2009 - 12:22 AM

Hi

Thanks Bigz for the umbee.
I'm quite sure it is a male as it exhibits colouration and finnage very different from the other umbees (suspected females) I have.
My similar size umbee absolutely hates your fish, hates it.

Have had to separate him(?)after my GT smashed him. He is separated but my Umbee wants to mash him, slaps the egg crate with it's tail and chases off the other juvies in the tank.

He has recovered a lot today, been doing 20% water changes daily and will keep using the fungus meds till he is right again.
Should not take too long but I won't be letting him near my other fish till he is much bigger!! They are too nasty!!

Will have my 8ftr soon so maybe he can go in there for a while to size up?

J








#12 CubanB

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Posted 10 May 2009 - 09:20 AM

how big is this new one you got from BigZ? also just to clarify my point - as much as i would love it to be a male i really think it's a female. it shows to many characteristics of a female, with the main one being it has black in it's dorsal fin. if there is signs of black in the dorsal and pelvic fins, then chances are it is a female. but..... time will certainly tell and hopefully i'm wrong smile.gif

Jlayz - how big is your biggest growout out of the ones we got recently? i'm finding that my 2 new growouts are growing quite quickly in comparison to my old female. she has grown to 6" so slowly!

#13 CubanB

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Posted 10 May 2009 - 09:23 PM

and a few more pics from tonight..... smile.gif

they are taken without the flash so they are a bit blurry, but it shows the true colours pretty well

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#14 jslayz

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Posted 10 May 2009 - 09:39 PM

Hi CubanB

I still think yours is a male.
Look at how pointy your dorsal is!
Mine are square at best.
Yours also has a lot of the blue dots on the operculum n sides of head, more than any of mine anyways.

The growouts are growing quite rapidly, one is just over 10cm already!!

Lets hope one of these is a male!!

J








#15 CubanB

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Posted 11 May 2009 - 06:59 PM

i hope mines a male but i don't think so. good to hear one of you growouts is nearly 10cm. i'd say my biggest of my 2 growouts is close to 8cm and the other is about 5cm.

fingers crossed hey smile.gif

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Posted 24 May 2009 - 01:44 PM

heres my male, he wasnt to happy about the pics so he went dark, ill try get better pics later. note the extended fins. it dont look to crash hot atm but when he colours up you wont doubt it to be a male

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#17 CubanB

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Posted 24 May 2009 - 02:32 PM

hard to tell from those pics but for it's size the fins are quite long. hopefully your right and it's a male

#18 jslayz

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Posted 25 May 2009 - 07:27 PM

Devilman I'm betting male coz of all his blue spotting in addition to his pointy fins.
Is he on his own in the tank?

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#19 devilman

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Posted 30 May 2009 - 10:46 AM

hey J

he is in the tank with my big polleni pair. yesterday i put a divider with a female umbee on the otherside so now im playing the waiting game

Brett

#20 jslayz

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Posted 31 May 2009 - 12:29 AM

QUOTE (devilman @ May 30 2009, 10:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
hey J

he is in the tank with my big polleni pair. yesterday i put a divider with a female umbee on the otherside so now im playing the waiting game

Brett


Ah the waiting game, good luck.
I'll have to pop by sometime.

I have been off the forum coz I've been fighting a columnaris & velvet outbreak.
Got 5 new fish and 2 introduced diseases....damn.
Lost a severum and a runt umbee fry, all others on the mend.
My big female umbee is in own tank till she recovers.
Learnt my lesson though, will follow strict quarantine from here on.
Catch you soon.

J




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