Re: A nijsseni

[Steph & Dave <caligula@tig.com.au>]

There is an article at http://www2.cichlidae.com/cichlidroom/ that
details the sex change of a dominant female D. filamentosa to male when
the only male in the tank removed itself.

Steph

Helen Burns wrote:
> 
> Tim,
> As far as I am aware there is only one cichlid species which will change sex
> and that is Crenicara punctulata,
> discussed recently on this list.
> There are sneaker males which gives the appearance of being female but will
> fox the other male and secretly try to spawn with the female.  I think
> that's what they do but I may be wrong if so I stand to be corrected.
> Helen
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Tim Ellis <timellis@flash.net>
> >>Has anybody had these change sex on them. I have and another fellow around
> >here
> >>did too. Or can a young  male (6months or so) imitate the yellow and the
> >black blotches of the female or vise versa?
> >>Tim
> 
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