How do you know if an oranda goldfish is a boy or a girl?

Question

Here's a picture, if you can tell which gender mine is, please let me know. =]

picture:
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa7/Ali-Brown/fishy/100_1003.jpg

video:
http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa7/Ali-Brown/fishy/?action=view¤t=8c8727bd.flv

Venice Girl -- It is an oranda, thank you very much.

Answer 1

It has nothing to do with the size of your photo and video, or even the quality ( both of which are great btw), it's the size and age of your fish that is the problem. The fact is there is no way anyone here could sex your fish. First, there is no way to tell until the fish is grown and in breeding condition. Even then it's not easy to tell unless they are ready to breed.

Here's a link about how it's done when the time is right:
http://www.bristol-aquarists.org.uk/goldfish/info/sexing-fs.htm

Hope that helps

MM

Answer 2

We appreciate that you provided pictures as that so often helps more than any other thing, but in this case, not so much that your pictures are bad, per se, but for this particular requirement, they don't quite do it, and especially if this goldfish isn't in its breeding season when the pictures were taken. First, this isn't an oranda. It's a fantail. Just to clear that up. Anyway, it is extremely difficult to sex goldfish even when they're in their breeding season, and it's quite literally impossible when they are not in their breeding season. But, for the record, males get tubercles, or tiny white bumps, like pimples, on their gills and edges of their fins. Females get a more rounded belly and their vent (bum hole) grows convex (sticks out). All of these things are very faint at best even in season. Otherwise, the only general factor is that females tend to be bigger around than males, but still, it may not be enough to be distinguishable and really only works with the slim-bodied goldfish.

Answer 3

It will get breeeding tubercuels on it, and you have to uprade your tank/

Answer 4

to small in that picture, but your tank is too small so she/he will not grow.

But anyway, males will grow bumps in breeding season, but your is too small and will never grow unless you upgrade.