Sex ID of Peacock
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Hadla
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If you look at the inside right after their legs, a male will have two stick like things on each side pointing down towards the middle. Females don’t have it. I can’t see it in your pics but you can get a better look in person!
Stomatopods17
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70% sure its female
Other 30% is me not able to see very well.
This is the spot (between first 'swimmers' and last pair of legs) you'd want to look, if it was a male, you'd see two sticks that look like this:
If they were there, I can't tell if the color is just blended in, but I'm pretty sure they just aren't there.
FWIW male to female O. scyllarus ratio is heavily female oriented.
Other 30% is me not able to see very well.
This is the spot (between first 'swimmers' and last pair of legs) you'd want to look, if it was a male, you'd see two sticks that look like this:
If they were there, I can't tell if the color is just blended in, but I'm pretty sure they just aren't there.
FWIW male to female O. scyllarus ratio is heavily female oriented.
moldos
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I think its female, but weirdly enough i usually only see males. Is there a reason for the heavily female weighted ratio?70% sure its female
Other 30% is me not able to see very well.
This is the spot (between first 'swimmers' and last pair of legs) you'd want to look, if it was a male, you'd see two sticks that look like this:
If they were there, I can't tell if the color is just blended in, but I'm pretty sure they just aren't there.
FWIW male to female O. scyllarus ratio is heavily female oriented.
Stomatopods17
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Unsure, I don't think there's a scientific reasoning out there for it but egg clutches with an uneven ratio aren't that uncommon in animals. There is a correlation for males getting diseases far more often than females, especially with shell rot.
It was surprising to me as well cause I had 3 male O. scyllarus and 5 female. All my male O. scyllarus had awful shell disease and missing parts (one was missing a gonad of all things, ouch), all my females when they arrived were physically clean and healthy, the one in my possession right now had a dot of shell rot it developed while I had it, and it magically disappeared in a few weeks, I check each week for new spots and haven't seen one since that back in iirc april.
Lysiosquillina there is explanation for being mostly all males and that's due to being a species that can live as communal pairs, the females always stay deep in the burrow while males hunt the entrance, the females just never get searched for despite how valuable a mated pair of them would be.
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