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Re: Fish sex change -- it happens, Jay
AUS62 at aol_com wrote:
>
> Hello, Jay. I had the same experience with a female(?) Rivulus marmoratus
>
> many years ago. of course, it is not identical as these are
> self-fertilizing
> hermaphrodites. The fish had produced viable eggs about two years and
> then
> stopped laying eggs. Some months later it was apparent the fish became
> pink
> in color and lost its rivulus spot! Since they are hermaphrodites, I
> didn't
> know how to "breed" it with another fish. Still, it had changed and I
> assume
> the ovaries had deteriorated leaving only male hormonal effect. Of course,
> in
> marine fish the fish change sex very readily to insure a male is
> available
> to fertilize the females. Thank goodness our sex orientation is "usually"
> firmly set forever and I like it this way.
Over seven or eight years of doing KCC maint. of WAL, I had one female that
got larger than normal and gradually took on male coloration (out of what
must have been nearly a thousand fish). IDK if she could fertilize eggs, for
I thought it was a mutation that we didn't need to propagate. Our
maintenance aim was to keep the species as close to natural as possible.
Wright
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