Leopard Gourami Female

[leighann]

does anyone know where i could find a female leopard gourami?

 

[Biulu]

does anyone know where i could find a female leopard gourami?

Maybe you can tell us first where you are located? That would help

 

[edgun88]

does anyone know where i could find a female leopard gourami?

If you live in the U.S. then you can find them at various petsmart stores. That's where I got my male one

 

[leighann]

im in the u.s and i purchased my leopard from petsmart too but they only sell males there.

 

[edgun88]

im in the u.s and i purchased my leopard from petsmart too but they only sell males there.

Yea I noticed that too. Only males. But hey its all good. Only one who knows the difference is you.

 

[leighann]

yeah but i really would like to get a female one also and i have noticed there isnt much online about them either.

 

[sylvia]

Are you certain you didn't just overlook the females? It doesn't really make sense for them not to stock females considering how similar the sexes are in appearance. It's not like customers would be more likely to choose one sex over the other constistently.

 

[leighann]

i am certain it said right on the label leopard gourami and underneath it in qoutations it said male and i havent heard much online about females or where i could purchase one.

 

[sylvia]

Males have little spines on their sides. The two sexes otherwise look identical. LFS usually make mistakes.

 

[Fruitbat]

Leighann...

If you're looking for a little information about some of the Bush Fish species, I will humbly add some links that will take you to profiles I've written about some species. Hope this isn't a violation of the board rules.

Profiles
Check in the 'Misc. Freshwater Species)

and here:

Leopard Ctenopoma profile

I don't know if you have to sign up for memberships to see the profiles but I've included the links anyway. Perhaps some of you will find them useful.

-Joe

 

[bobross]

Maybe the lfs could order a female for you? Or even notify you when they get females? just an idea...

 

[Fruitbat]

bobross,

Chances are extremely likely that the employees at the vast majority of local fish stores couldn't tell the difference between a male C. acutirostre and a female of the species if their lives depended on it.

-Joe

 

[bobross]

Unfortunately, Ithere's a really good chance of that being true. I've been to several Petsmart stores in the past, I was more impressed with the fish and the aquariums they had setup than the employees themselves. Not saying all are like that, just the ones i went to. I always found their prices to be a little high as well. ANYways, not trying to change the subject to a another rant, just saying. Leighann, good luck on tracking down a female



BobRoss

 

[edgun88]

bobross,

Chances are extremely likely that the employees at the vast majority of local fish stores couldn't tell the difference between a male C. acutirostre and a female of the species if their lives depended on it.

-Joe

Its extremely easy to tell the difference between them. Males have spines on their back and females don't.

 

[Fruitbat]

edgun88

I don't mean to be excessively argumentative but the difference between males and females of the 'free spawning' Ctenopoma species (which include Ctenopoma acutirostre) has nothing to do with spines on their back. Both genders have a patch of spines right behind and below the eye and another at the base of the tail (caudal peduncle) but in males the spines are generally longer and more strongly developed. Having kept MANY of these fish over the years, of many different species, I can tell you that it takes a close examination of the fish out of the aquarium with a high-quality magnifying lens to have any hope of telling the difference between the two sexes. These gender-specific patches of spined scales are not to be confused with the typical comb-like ctenoid scales that these fish possess...all of which have 'toothed' trailing edges. Also, the spines that project from the back of the operculum (gill cover plate) do not appear to be gender-specific either.

-Joe