So last Saturday I gave away more of my gold fish (Thanks Ram!! I'm so excited that I found a nice new home for my fish!) and now I only have 3 shubbies and 3 goldfish (and about 10 tiny tropical fish).
So now I want to get just 2 more shubbies, a boy and a girl, so that I can have may be one or two baby shubbies that I can watch them grow (really going to let the nature take it course for number control) and give some to my friends.
The problem - It's really hard to tell the sex of the fish. For some male, I can see the little white pimples on it cheeks, is that a true indicator that it's a male?
What about female? If in the same lot I see the male with white pimples, can I assumed that the one without the pimple be female?
My 3 shubbies, which is about 6 inches now, I thought they are older but guess that they are all 3 with the same sex since or still too young since there's no spawning this year (don’t know if it'd be way too fast for them to do it too since I got them 2 months ago)
So.. where is the place (other than eBay) to get good shubunkin, that I can choose which one I want (other than eBay), and can tell me if it's a male or female.
Does this look like a female to you? http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-5-SHUBUNK...231009992586?pt=Live_Fish&hash=item35c944bf8a
http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-75-SHUBUN...231020211268?pt=Live_Fish&hash=item35c9e0ac44
and this one a male? http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-25-SHUBUN...330964624896?pt=Live_Fish&hash=item4d0f076600 (last picture)
Theirs price not bad but shipping is expensive... I'm actually waiting to see if NextdayKoi will have more shubbies that I like since their shipping to NC is cheaper.
So now I want to get just 2 more shubbies, a boy and a girl, so that I can have may be one or two baby shubbies that I can watch them grow (really going to let the nature take it course for number control) and give some to my friends.
The problem - It's really hard to tell the sex of the fish. For some male, I can see the little white pimples on it cheeks, is that a true indicator that it's a male?
What about female? If in the same lot I see the male with white pimples, can I assumed that the one without the pimple be female?
My 3 shubbies, which is about 6 inches now, I thought they are older but guess that they are all 3 with the same sex since or still too young since there's no spawning this year (don’t know if it'd be way too fast for them to do it too since I got them 2 months ago)
So.. where is the place (other than eBay) to get good shubunkin, that I can choose which one I want (other than eBay), and can tell me if it's a male or female.
Does this look like a female to you? http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-5-SHUBUNK...231009992586?pt=Live_Fish&hash=item35c944bf8a
http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-75-SHUBUN...231020211268?pt=Live_Fish&hash=item35c9e0ac44
and this one a male? http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-25-SHUBUN...330964624896?pt=Live_Fish&hash=item4d0f076600 (last picture)
Theirs price not bad but shipping is expensive... I'm actually waiting to see if NextdayKoi will have more shubbies that I like since their shipping to NC is cheaper.