Determining the Sex of my Dojo?
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:48 pm
Hey all, new to the forums, hope to stick around awhile. I've always owned loaches, in particular dojos and kuhlis for years. However, I've never known their sexes. (just named 'em whatever I thought fit lol) I had a green and dark green speckled dojo/weather loach for 7 YEARS until he(?) died.
Now, after about a year and a half of my tank being barren, I've gotten a new silver/blueish silver dojo loach. He/she is very active, and I wish to get a golden dojo loach to go along as a pair. What I need to know is how to tell their sexes, so that I may know what sex I already have, and get the opposite.
I've read that males' pectoral fins are longer/more triangular in shape, but seeing as I don't have any other loaches to compare with right now, I was hoping someone had some decent PICTURES of male and female differences.
Thanks in advance all,
Jesse
Now, after about a year and a half of my tank being barren, I've gotten a new silver/blueish silver dojo loach. He/she is very active, and I wish to get a golden dojo loach to go along as a pair. What I need to know is how to tell their sexes, so that I may know what sex I already have, and get the opposite.
I've read that males' pectoral fins are longer/more triangular in shape, but seeing as I don't have any other loaches to compare with right now, I was hoping someone had some decent PICTURES of male and female differences.
Thanks in advance all,
Jesse