[quote=”helene” post=1738]I know the feeling of being just a little bit impatient and studying those new paros for hours to wait for them to ‘show their real colours’ or flash a little bit … [/quote]
You must have observed me …… 😉
But as you say – it’s very exciting to slowly watch them reveal themselves as ….???
I read from your post that you agree with at least the one shown above being a male? I admit that this is the most important thing to me – to have both sexes of the fish! Form or species – whatever comes out will delight me. But to have only males (or, much worse, only females – without knowing the species) would make me very unhappy.
Here’s another photo – not a good one, but you can see the colours of the dorsal and anal fin. The plain chestnut red is still there but the seam of the fins becomes very dark with a whitish edging.