Johanni pics help me sex them

[vantgE]

Tried to sex them today and at best guess have two females and one male but??? I still have no idea what i'm doing I've already described them a couple time on here and I'm getting them all as male, find it hard to believe that out of 7 fish I got all males, and now I have a digicam

Not great pics but...

 

[wrs]

males are blue, females are yellow.

is that fish in the first pic an aurtus?

 

[vantgE]

But mine are brown and blue, They are melanchromis johanni the orange one is a maylandia lombardoi

 

[wrs]

prehaps it hasnt changed yet.

 

[keane]

from the third picture down I would say you have 2 males and 1 female.

This is only becacuse I can see egg spots on the bottom fins (sorry, dont know the scientific name!) of the two lowest Johannii and i can't see an egg spot on the top one.

To be honest this isn't a good ratio. The female will get harassed by both of the males, possibly to the extent of death .

steve

 

[freddyk]

In a tank with multiple males only the dominent ones will turn blue - subdominents will remain brown in attempt to avoid attracting the interest of the dominents.

 

[vantgE]

Yeah thing is though the only one that has agresion problems is the second most blue one I would of thought he it would have changed if any. I guess their all males though so will be picking one and getting rid of the rest.

On a side not could I keep one white socofoli in with one male elongatus if the socofoli was female could I expect problems agresion, or hybrids?

 

[Ferris]

On a side not could I keep one white socofoli in with one male elongatus if the socofoli was female could I expect problems agresion, or hybrids?

Should be fine, i have an albino socolofi in a mixed Mbuna tank that did at one time contain an elongatus and had no problems. They are too different in appearance IMO to breed.