Ok, so I've had a mimic filefish for over a year, he's great he's perfect, I love him to death.
So I finally decided to get him a girlfriend a few months back, I just kept an eye on stocklists, and they showed up back in stock last week. Fast forward to today, and she's here!
Except... she's big. Bigger than my current fish, and more elaborately colored. I know these fish are protogynous hermaphrodites, so I gather that the new one may be male, or I may have two males or two females (in which case I may have a problem...). Does anybody know what the gender diffs are in these fish?
But that's not what's really worrying me. What's got me MOST concerned is that the new fish has "hooks" sticking out from the base of its tail, looks like two sets of double-hooks on each side of his/her body. *** is up with that?!
So I finally decided to get him a girlfriend a few months back, I just kept an eye on stocklists, and they showed up back in stock last week. Fast forward to today, and she's here!
Except... she's big. Bigger than my current fish, and more elaborately colored. I know these fish are protogynous hermaphrodites, so I gather that the new one may be male, or I may have two males or two females (in which case I may have a problem...). Does anybody know what the gender diffs are in these fish?
But that's not what's really worrying me. What's got me MOST concerned is that the new fish has "hooks" sticking out from the base of its tail, looks like two sets of double-hooks on each side of his/her body. *** is up with that?!
