Male Hoplarchus psittacus

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Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby seanwelsh1 » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:47 pm

Well here he is in all his glory ! He is around 8" now so still a bit of growing to do

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The little female saxatilis is around 3" so you can get an idea of size

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Re: Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby Cichlidfever » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:07 pm

He looks good :)
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Re: Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby Alex Odesit » Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:20 pm

nice fish Sean.
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Re: Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby christoph » Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:42 am

nice fish, really different patterns than mine.
Why do you think the first one is a male, behaviour ?
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Re: Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby seanwelsh1 » Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:30 am

christoph wrote:nice fish, really different patterns than mine.
Why do you think the first one is a male, behaviour ?


I have 5 and two larger ones seem to be males . They were all purchased at the same time but two have grown bigger than the rest .
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Re: Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby christoph » Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:47 am

I have also two bigger ones, seems to be males.

My male

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Re: Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby Piotr Koba » Sun Jan 08, 2012 6:11 am

Wow beautiful fish Sean and Christoph! I assume Christoph's one is larger? What's his lenght?
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Re: Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby Cichlidfever » Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:45 am

Christoph he is very nice looking :)
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Re: Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby christoph » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:55 am

mine is around 13"
yours is really more greenish, mine (the dominant one) sometimes more blue, the other 2 grey-green.
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Re: Male Hoplarchus psittacus

Postby seanwelsh1 » Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:03 am

yeah mine is 8" so a while to go yet !
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