Mandarin pictures?

[NexDog]

Can someone show me some pics of both male and female mandarins? I'm trying to work out what mine are. :)

[mano]

look in the breeding forum here there is a post on a mating pair there

[davocean]

The male has a spike/sailfin dorsal that he sometimes displays.
Mines a male, check my gallery for photo

[NexDog]

Thanks, but what I'm looking for is a page with photos of both and text that says, "This is how you tell the difference between a make and female....". I've read many references to the long dorsal fin but I need to see it. I found one page and the male mandarin's dorsal fin was so long it was lying down, sweeping towards the back and another pic showed a mandarin where the dorsal fin was standing up because it was shorter?

[wetWolger]

my mandarin is really really camera shy

[davocean]

The male only raises dorsal when he's trying to show his stuff.
Mine does it at his reflection.
Page 2 of my gallery shows this

[Eve]

Do a search on RC - there was a long thread a while back with LOTS of great pics of different types of mandarins. That's what helped me figure it out - I needed to see it too to really understand :) That thread is great. I thought I bookmared it but can't find it now.

[Eve]

This isn't the one I meant, but this one has good pics that show the fin on a male.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=751723&highlight=mandarins

[NexDog]

Thanks. I posted in that thread too. :)

[mystikdragon7]

Here is a thread loaded with mandarin pictures. (http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=579153)

[NexDog]

Awesome - thanks. :)