Got to agree with the others. On #3, he's young, but the pectorals look male, nice and straight, plus the cutout behind the odontodes looks good-but neither is conclusive at that size. Check the bulge on #6 behind the pectorals, I agree with you on being gravid. Give 'em two weeks dry conditions in ...

The profile quotes an article in Datz. Can anyone post that info?

I have an opportunity to acquire six of these beauties and would like to evaluate the possibilty of raising them.

Thanks.

sorry, forgot to answer the original question... If the pleco is healthy, a day or two without food is no big deal. Introduce the new food for three days running, and anything listed in this thread is eventually accepted. I have never had BN fail to eat any of our feeds after a few days. Given a cho...

Our vegetarian feed: Collard Greens: about the highest protein content among green leafy veg. Nice part is the strong vein structure keeps the leaf from flying apart. Rinse, DRY and layer between sheets of waxed paper and then place in the freezer. Two days of freeze and then place in tank using veg...

In the DC metro area, it has been my experience that 80% of the zebras we find in shops are males. Kind of pointless to speculate on why, it is just that way. So, to keep things cooking, we keep the suspected females in a separate rearing tank. You can usually find males when you need them. When we ...

...in reply to notNoisy: I can't tell you how many times I have heard this one about broken stripes. I have seen many variations on the striping and none are consistent with sex. View the web reference I mentioned in an earlier post. These are very good examples. (BTW: Does anyone here know who shou...

It has been my experience that the first sexual characteristic to appear is the body shape followed by pectoral fin development. Look at the uppermost pair of photos from the Japanese link. http://home.owari.ne.jp/%7Econes/lancefarm/zebra/zebra4.html Note that the female, on the right, looks "p...