He's an Eastern Painted, taking care of him a year now. He's in a 50 gal aquarium with a few 1-2 inch comet goldfish, a snail and a mini blue lobster. He's very docile and hasn't once tried to eat any of them other than chasing a fish from time to time or kicking the snail around, but it's more...
Thanks. As I said it's about a year old give or take a few weeks as I'm pretty sure it was a hatchling when we found it a year ago. Only in the past month or so has the tail and nails grown that they're noticeably a male but I wasn't certain.
I'm new here and have a year old Eastern Painted that we found in a parking lot where I work. The office girls took it in and I volunteered to bring it home and keep it. Had it since it was a hatchling (about the size of a quarter) and now it's about 4". We had assumed it was female but the...