Thank you very much Plecomania and Jorgehdzy for sharing your experiences!

Based on your thoughts and advice I have decided to keep the two males with the largest bristles, and search for 2-4 females. Hope I can find them. Adult specimens are rare over here. Only young specimens for sale, 3-4cm ...

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts! Really, I appreciate it very much!

I was hoping for a different answer though, so this is a little disappointing. When buying these fish I did notice the small bristles on all 4, but the seller sold me these as a group of 4 females (that's why I also had ...

Hi Jorgehdzy,

thanks for replying! That would be a surprise if all turned out to be males! I've just recently ordered a male A. Red to add to this group of 'females'. Maybe I should reconsider ...

I hope to receive a reply from someone who has kept this species previously. I would appreciate it ...

Hello,

I recently bought 4 Ancistrus Red Fire.
All 4 are about 8 cm (3.1 inch).
All 4 were sold to me as females.
All 4 have small bristles (1 to 2 mm) around their snouts, plus one of two bristles (1 to 2 mm) on top of the snout pointing up.
One of them has more and longer bristles on top of his ...

Thank you all very much for sharing your thoughts with me! :-BD

The outcome is a bit dissapointing: none of you think that these fish are the L333, and most of you agree on the LDA19. The LDA19 is not the fish that I went out to buy, so I will give these new insights back to the one I bought ...

Hi,

thank you all for the replies. I appreciate it very much, .. even though the outcome is not what I was hoping for. But if I read closely, there is some hesitation in the replies.

After reading the replies I dove into the tank to measure. The male measures 8cm (3") from head to the center of ...

Hi,

I am new to Planetcatfish (this is my 2nd post) and new to L-numbers. I recently bought 2 L-numbers as a male and female L333. In an attempt to determine whether I had really bought a male and female L333 I posted my question here on Planetcatfish, and I started asking around at local aquarium ...

That does help Axle, thank you .. again!

It helps me to understand what to look for when trying to determine gender.

Thank you Axle. There is very little hesitation in your reaction

The score is now:
A = Male
A = Male
B = Unsure
B = Male

Anyone else?

Thank you nvcichlid. I am told that these L333's are about two years old.

Just bought them yesterday. B looked skinny to me too. I will provide extra food.

Please read my first post: Help determining gender L333 post 1. This second post is for extra pictures of my L333 for help determining gender of my two L333. Thanks!

Kind regards, L3hundred33

Hi everybody,

this is my first post on Planetcatfish. I started keeping L-numbers recently. I have had many Malawi and Tanganyika cichlids, but L-numbers are new to me. So I would appreciate any help sexing my two L333's. I bought these two mature L333's, 8cm in size, as a male and a female. I hope ...