Requesting Gbr Pictures Please

[elisew]

Definitely, without a shadow of a doubt they are GBR`s

Would need some clear side pics of them all to know which is male and which is female. They are pretty easy to tell apart though as the females have a bigger, deeper coloration of pink on their bellies

 

[walkers101]

they all look like males to me

 

[BethK]

blue face mark, red eye and a distinct iridescent blue sheen on the body.

they are blue rams. no idea how u could mistake them as bolivian rams especially after the 2 pictures already posted by elisew

Their coloration has only just come out, they original one wasn't this colorful when i fist got him, he actually looked like a bolv. ram. This is my first time with rams, so for me, it was hard to distinguish. The other 3 looked like him, their coloration was dull too.

The 4th one, not in the picture, doesn't have as dom. black markings but it has a pinker belly.

I'll see if i can get a vid later, thank you for your help.

Definitely, without a shadow of a doubt they are GBR`s

Would need some clear side pics of them all to know which is male and which is female. They are pretty easy to tell apart though as the females have a bigger, deeper coloration of pink on their bellies

Would they be hard to sex at the moment, until they are bigger? I only ask, as they really are only over an inch in size

 

[elisew]

My females when I got them were about 1.25" but still had the pink colouring, maybe they`re too young yet to have the normal female colouring, will have to see them to know

 

[fluttermoth]

Just to confuse matters, not all female rams get pink bellies; I've got two that I was positive were both males, and then they spawned

 

[BethK]

#41#### it lol

Well, I only have 2 GBR's now and they are 2 of the ones I got from the LFS the other day. One wasn't looking too great when I got him home tbh, so I took him back the next day. The original 1, left from the two that my friend gave me, wasn't looking too great. I thought he/she was turning a corner, when I got the other lot but by the end of the evening, he/she just sat on the bottom on the tank, breathing fast and not swimming around with the others.

I called my LFS and asked if they had a number of any one in the area that specialises in dwarf cichlids and they gave me a guy's number. This man picked the sick GBR, said it looked like he/she was suffering swim bladder issues and is surprised he/she has survived this long, he thought the first would have died with the other one. Put it down to my 'emergency' care that this one was still living. Anyway, I got a call about an hr ago from this guy, says he has isolated the fella, in a small tank and that he/she has been swimming about for the last 40 mins, so things look to be going well. He's been treating him.her for bladder issues (not sure how but said he was), so atleast there is hoping for a happy ending for one of the survivors!