Female Dovii personality as wet pet

[Wildcat157]

Is a single female Dovii as good as a single male Dovii as a wet pet?

Do they both have same interactive personalities?

Thanks for opinions if anyone has kept a female only.

 

[Rass]

Female dovii are great! I've always kept them as pairs but to honest, the only times my males get crazy is during spawning. My big Female is actually less shy under most circumstances than my big male.

 

[Wildcat157]

Thanks for input! I recently rescued what I believed to be a female from a lfs. The story I got was she was beat up by a male flowerhorn.
Her caudal fun is clamped, and she is quite skittish. I have her in 75 gallon.
If I grow her out I realize I would need to put her in a 125 at least as a wet pet solo.
But if I want to go that route I would like to have a very personable reactive to the outside type of fish.
It's only been two days so I will give a lot more time for her to acclimate and settle in.
How big is your female? I hear many people say they get the 24 in but I have personally never seen anything over 16.
Here's a pic do you think it's female?
Thanks again!!

 

[lunsforj]

I'm curious to see how big one could get that isn't constantly breeding or being submissive to a male.

 

[maxstillen]

Looks like you have a female dovii for sure. They can also get big but why settle for a female when the males are much more colorful if you are planning to just raise one solo?

 

[Wildcat157]

I guess it comes down to tank size.

I agree males have awesome colors and are visually more appealing. ( I had one once).

That's probably why I see so many beat up females at lfs's?

I just wanted to know if females glass bang, Gill flare, and react to to outside environment as much as males or are they less likely to do those things?

 

[newworld]

It really depends on the fish I’ve kept Dovii a bunch of times, males aren’t always banging the glass some are shy and hide when you approach the tank, it’s the individual which decides that…

 

[duanes]

One other aspect, is how you personally deal with the tank.
If it only contains the female dovii, and you are the only one it has to relate to, and you spend lots of time with it, it can become anthropomorphically personal (a wet pet).
If it is housed with other fish, especially cichlids, or other large fish, it probably won't notice you at all, except at feeding time.

 

[Wildcat157]

That is a good point. And we'll said.
It would be solo, but other tanks in the same room.
So many factors makes it interesting.
Thanks