Sexing Green Terror Juvis?

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Does anybody know how?

I bought 4 Juvis from my LFS earlier...I asked him for 1 male and 3 female Gold Saums so i could get my own breeding pair in there own 100 gallon tank.

However after getting them home it appears that i have 2 x Gold Saums and 2 x Silver Saums.

The 2 silvers seem to be the dominant ones...keeping the 2 golds to one side of the tank.

They are all between 3-4" the smaller silvers fins are more pointy...the bigger rounded....the larger Golds fins are pointy and the smaller rounded :S

Does this mean I have 2 of each? 2 males + 2 females? they all seem quite dullish...not that colourful.

None have a hump on there head yet either.

Shall i buy more? to guarantee pairs or will they pair off from what I have?

Am i correct in thinking the fins are the way to distinguish them? the difference is not very big at all!

Here is a video i uploaded to you tube as I'm finding it hard to take a decent picture with the flash off...and the flash on just makes them look like a metallic green mess lol.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_cUAnGuRZ8

Edit: Heres some pics

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Your golds look female, defo that one in the first pic. The others im not sure about.
 
Did you check the video mate? do you mind? its probably to see easier than my rubbish pics :p

Will the colour on the fins get better as they get older? these are the only ones i could get and they don't look as nice as my old Male I had which was about a inch bigger (but he had bred previously before i bought him...maybe breeding colours?)

The colour on these guys fins are much thinner...like say a Blue Acaras colouring (they are definitely Green Terrors tho)
 

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