Ramirezi again - this time with a photo!

[Turin Turambar]

I took a picture of my Ramirezi (the quality isn't quite good, but it should be alright). Please tell me is it a male or female.
Thanks

[PumaWard]

Looks like a male to me. How big is he?

[Turin Turambar]

Hm... about 4 cm long.

[Banky]

Wow, where did you get one with such amazing colors?

[CHINABOY1021]

rams are quite hard to sex, if not impossible. the few times theyve been positively sexed, lucky guess and coincidence.:o

[PumaWard]

rams are quite hard to sex, if not impossible. the few times theyve been positively sexed, lucky guess and coincidence.

This really is quite the opposite. Rams are very easy to sex, easier than kribs. Females should be the only ones with a pink belly. Females should also be the only ones with blue speckles in their black dots... and, in general, they remain smaller than males.

Males are the only ones that have a an extended 2nd or 3rd dorsal ray (which is the top fin), unless it's been broken off.

Once you have started to look at males and females at least once a week, then you also start to notice that females have a more "feminine" appearence.

My brother has 1 m and 2 female rams and I can tell the difference between the two at a glance.

[Turin Turambar]

Originally posted by Banky
Wow, where did you get one with such amazing colors?

Thanks, I'll pass the compliments to my fish. ;) I bought him in the LFS more than year ago (year and a half to be precise).

[Captain Hook]

Yea great looking fish. Is that just called german ram in stores?

[PumaWard]

They can be called rams, blue rams, german blue rams, or german rams; they are all the same :). The gold rams are the only ones that are different.

[WildFrisco]

Ah, gold rams. I'll never forget the first time I saw or owned one. Some gold rams are so brilliantly colored you might mistake them for saltwater fish. I had one where his orange forehead coloration became a bright pink at his nose/mouth. Don't ask me what happened to him. :(