Originally Posted By: teehjaeh57
Gender, Cecil?


At least one seems to be a male by the darker breast but I don't see the black scales so I'm not going out on a limb. I would prefer they be mature males during spawning season.

The truth be know from now on I will do a probe with a catheter tube on sexually mature bgs during spawning time, as I'm not 100 percent convinced you can do it entirely visually. I know a sneaker male can disguise himself as a female but I'm starting to wonder if there aren't anomolies out there where females look like males. Theo produced a pic of a what he thought was a gravid female with black scale spots out of his pond that are only supposed to be on males.

I was sure I sexed my fish well recently in my all male pond and I'll be damned if I don't have bluegill fry swimming around! There may have been cage escapees but I'm not so sure...

Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 08/25/10 09:29 PM.

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