searching for female DG

[deeleywoman]

i'm looking to add a red flame dwarf gourami to my tank in the next week or two, and i'm hoping (somewhat naively, i'm sure) to find him a pretty little female friend in the near future, in the hopes of attempting to breed them one day. so i'm putting the feelers out for who may have female dwarf guorami, or who might have a clutch coming soon that i might be able to score a female from, and how much i might be looking at for her and for shipping her. (pics are good too, for those who have them! :))

thx!

[Arakkis]

I have some female dwarfs but they are the blue ones

[deeleywoman]

it's my understanding, both from talking to people here and talking to people at the LFS, that the color-morphed dwarf gourami (such as red flames) are all male, and that the female ones are all plain-looking.

[Arakkis]

Not all the females are bland, they gan be a non-descript grey or a metallic blue. It all depends on the wholesaler. I get the blue one because they are prettier and they don't cost any more than the other.

[calivivarium1]

Arakkis is right, females are not strictly grey and ugly. My female is mostly blue with small amount of grey and yellow striping.

[deeleywoman]

i never said ugly >.>