Potential Mates Advice

[Hadoken Kitty]

Erghhh It's so hard!!! Can you tell how many this guy has? This picture seems kinda card for me to count. I can't tell if it's the picture quality, or just my noviceness.

[indjo]

Sorry for taking so long. I tried to look for older posts on rays . . . don't understand how to use the "search". While I keep looking, in the mean time; . . . imagine a line from the mouth to the tail. In that picture you will see/meet the center ray. This ray branches into 8 rays. I know it's not that clear, but enough for you to see/count the end rays. If you look at 2 and 3 rays below that center ray, you will see that they only branch into 4 rays.

When viewing a live fish (or unclear pictures), you can't really count the rays. They will never keep still and pose for you, LOL. So you have to memorize the shape of 2 - 4 - 8 - more rays to "guess" the ray count.

[VictorP]

I agree with Dom. The forum is definitely more concerned about politeness than fish. All that aside I agree that you should find a female more fitting for the male.

[Myates]

I can never figure out the search function either for this site.. I have better luck googling the question/topic and can find the thread that way faster than using the search here lol

[indjo]

http://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/b...09/#post775884

Try looking at that thread - should give you a better idea.

[inareverie85]

I am glad you decided not to breed the rosetail. :) It's really a lot of risk for the babies.

Let us know if you see other fish that you'd like an opinion on and we will try to help.

[Hadoken Kitty]

Oh wow that's an awesome thread! Just put it on my favorite's list. I don't know how to use the search either...lol

Actually, I have another thread about the fish I will be breeding with now. So all of my questions regarding that specific fish will be under that thread, just to keep along with the forum rules. (: