Fishfreak218
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How do you know the gender between a Male Royal Gramma and a Female Royal Gramma? thank you VERY much
-josh
-josh
How to tell the gender?
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mwp
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They're sequential hermaphrodites starting as females - start out with two small ones and one will apparently quickly turn male.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to have read this at least a few times now.
(this advice is disclaimed as being given freely by a person who's never attempted to pair them)
MP
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to have read this at least a few times now.
(this advice is disclaimed as being given freely by a person who's never attempted to pair them)
MP
From another one who haven´t paired them...
From another one who haven´t paired them...
I have not paired them either but would like to see what is your experience on this.
I've read an article (1997) saying that there is a undifferentiated gonad in the youngs so they can turn either into a male or a female. Once "decided", no changes.
I think maybe putting two or more youngs together would result in one male + females but not true if puting together grown up females.
First, is it really what happens ? Would it be called protogyny or, at least, hermaphroditism ?
In the wild, groups can be formed by a dominant male + females + submissive males (sometimes). Anyone has had a group who showed tis kind of distribution in aquaria ?
Anderson.
From another one who haven´t paired them...
I have not paired them either but would like to see what is your experience on this.
I've read an article (1997) saying that there is a undifferentiated gonad in the youngs so they can turn either into a male or a female. Once "decided", no changes.
I think maybe putting two or more youngs together would result in one male + females but not true if puting together grown up females.
First, is it really what happens ? Would it be called protogyny or, at least, hermaphroditism ?
In the wild, groups can be formed by a dominant male + females + submissive males (sometimes). Anyone has had a group who showed tis kind of distribution in aquaria ?
Anderson.
Assuming their reproductive biology is like groupers, they should be protogynous hermaphrodites. Like what mwp said, they will start off as females and mature as males. But in groupers, functional males are capable of reversing sex back into females. Not sure if grammas are capable of this but it might be possible. 
