Stupid question about L ocellatus

[crazyfishlady]

I know this is probably a stupid question but can ocellatus' (ocellati?? Who knows ??:D ) change sex.

I thought I had a harem of one big male & 3 females & then the big male died, I thought no more babies for me, Then about a month later there were fry???

I'm sure I was just wrong about the sex of one of the "females" but I had them for over a year & the one who is now apparently the male, I had for longer than I did the big male that died. The "new" male has actually about doubled in size since the big one died, even tho the "newly male" one is older.

So confused :oops:

[aharris]

He's probably just emerged from sub-dominant status. I had a furcifer that I couldn't tell the gender of for the longest time; just recently have I been able to see some color to indicate male.

[Discus]

hey thats freaky

[Discus]

it might be th dominate male it changes color after fighting

[crazyfishlady]

Its a very strange thing, & I've heard of fish that can change, so I had to wonder if my fish was one of them.

[finz]

I had a subdominant male occelatus that grew very slowly until I put him in a different tank. Once he got away from the dominant male, he shot up to 2 inches long from 1 1/4. He now rules the sand of my 55 gallon community tank.

[crazyfishlady]

Cool. This makes alot more sense than the other option :)
Thanks