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Ok, I think my DPs are big enough for us to differentiate them. What do you guys think?

Fidji I'm pretty sure is a male, I saw wrinkles! But the line on his tail is not quite "completed" it seems!



and another one:



Palua I think is a male too because he fights a lot with fidji! And it looks like wrinkles are forming:


(I love this pictures, he's smiling! )

And here we see the line on his tail:


Now, Borneo I'm not too sure... I think she's a female: more peaceful and the line on her tail doesn't look all solid (the one on the right):



But, it still looks like she's got some sort of line:


Otherwise, they are pretty much all the same color. Fidji is lighter but he's also the smallest one. I can't say that Borneo's belly is lighter than the other two. Borneo's still a bit of a mystery to me! Fidji tolerates her much of the time, but not Palua. Borneo is pretty tolerant, but will chase both Fidji and Palua once in a while.

So, what do you think?

Did you just turn on the lights or something they seem a bit pale? Or is it flash from the camera?
I think Borneo could be female, but the other two seem to be males to me.

It's probably the flash. My computer screen being old, everything is darker to me. So to me the lighting of the pictures looks just good, therefor it must look pale to rest of you!! But the puffers are not very dark in color. Fidji is the lighter being of a golden color, the other 2 are somewhere between gold and olive green.

Borneo is a mystery! I realised she doesn't have the same spots depending on which side you look! One of them has 3 distinct spots, the other has more of a line and 1 spot?!? Half male half female? lol

The line isn't on their tail, it's on their belly. There's a sexing article in our Library.

Yep, I did read the sexing article numerous times PP. It does say that the spots tend to blend into a line going from their side into their tail, that's why I was mentioning it.
Borneo doesn't correspond 100% to the female description that's why I want to have others opinion.
Thanks.