RE: apisto life spans (D. filamentosus) -Reply

["Griffiths, Richard" <rgriffit@visa.com>]

Non-alpha males like to look like females--it beats the heck out of
being beat up by the alpha male. The real trick is to see males,
confirmed breeding males, change to breeding females. 

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>From: 	Doug Brown[SMTP:debrown@kodak.com]
>Sent: 	Monday, February 23, 1998 11:00 AM
>To: 	apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>Subject: 	Re: apisto life spans (D. filamentosus) -Reply
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>>Can these guys change sex?
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>Too bad there was no comment on this. I'm pretty sure C. Punctulata still
>undergoes the only documented sex change for cichlids. I have heard a
>couple store employees mutter about taking the last male cichlid out of a
>tank and then finding another male a few weeks later. Sorry, I can't
>remember what species as I never really believed them enough to pay
>attention. Don't forget the C. Punctulata discovery was made by amateur
>aquarists though!
>
>-Doug Brown
>debrown@kodak.com
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