peacockkeeper
Aquarium Advice Freak
I bought 2 fish I thought were males about three weeks ago. The first one is a sunshine peacock and the second one was a bi-colored peacock. I never realized that females could show so much color when hormones but I have definitely learns my lesson. The sunshine is just over 2" and was showing good yellow coming through when I bought it and the bi-color was about 2-1/2" and had bright egg spots and some color in the body. When I got them home they both lost some color in a few days but I was still hoping they were males. Since, my bi-color lost all it's color and is definitely looking like a female. The sunshine still kept decent yellow color and I thought it was male so imagine my surprise when 2 days ago I noticed that "She" was holding. I'm assuming that the father is the peacock in the second pick who was in the tank because he got bullied out of the all male tank. He was about to be re homed for 2 reasons 1 he got beat up 2 I got him before I knew what I was doing and he is most likely a hybrid from a mixed Ciclid tank. I'm not going to do it but I can't help but wonder how a grown fish would look with that combo. I guess my question would be is it normal for hormoned females to show good color and if so I guess I will have to be more careful when picking out fish.