My words didn’t quite express my thought, Stefanie, I must apologize – I meant to say, as far as my knowledge (or my experience or reading, etc.) I have not been aware that females get those black pelvic fins, that is, this is the first time I’ve been aware of it
(not that it never happens) 🙂 . But I have not kept that many paros, so my knowledge is very limited. Interesting that your Nagyi female does get the dark fins, and thanks for posting that photo. That is a very beautiful combination of colors in that female! What population is that?
I think my nagyi female has clear lower fins most all the time (there are definite, but rather faint red colors in her dorsal fin – but not nearly as extensive as in your female).
Here she is right at the peak of pre-spawn displaying – the fins appear to be almost colorless.
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– so there is some kind of variation, it seems between these individuals or is it populations? But this is why I wanted to show the female colors, as this is as important as the male colors.