How do we know about the gender of a ' fish '... i.e. which is male and which one is female? Please help. Tks

Question

I have a huge fish tank with a variety of say 25 fish, not more than 2 fish of the same breed.

Answer 1

Male fish have more color in a lot of species. body shape is also a good indicator a large bump on the head is male in cyclades

Answer 2

Depending on what species of fish you have?1,Guppies the male has a large flamboyant coloured tail,the females tail is a lot smaller 2 Sword Tails the male has a long thin tail the female does not have this sword appearance,3 Mollies the male has a larger dorsal fin than the female.In other species the Males are usually brighter in colour.if you were to pop along to your local library the may have books on tropical fish keeping or ask in your local pet shop.Then all you questions will be answered

Answer 3

Well ppl are able to figure out the gender by watching which ones give birth. Different kinds of fish have different ways of telling male/female... For a convict cichlid the stomach is red for a female. For a goldfish, the gills are white dots when pregnant

Answer 4

I don't know what kinda fish you have, but sometimes you can tell by colors like on cichlids

If you have tropicals, a male has a pointed anafin, which a female doesn't
check out the following link
http://www.fishlesscycling.com/articles/how_to_sex_your_fish.html



Hope that helps
Good luck


EB

Answer 5

For an xpert (or a bod wiv a decent book) it'd b fairly easy as a lot of varieties are actually different colours one genda to the other, also size quite often differs (one being substantially larger, not necesarily always the male). The other 1 is w8 to see if any of them give birth, usually a good indicator of genda.

Answer 6

Really depends what fish - but usually:
-Males are more colourful
-Males have bigger, brighter tail fins
-Females are duller in colour
-Females have larger bellies
-Females dorsal fin is spread like a fan whilst a males id flat and elongated (Gonopodium)

Thats just a generalisation of common fish

Answer 7

every fish are different and some are hard to tell try books or internet for the fish you want to sex or give the name of the fish

Answer 8

What I would do is buy a book on nice tropical fish and learn and I would ask the pet shop dealer.

Answer 9

It really depend on the fish. If you list the species then it might more accurate.

Answer 10

Male is larger,more colorful,aggressive,dominant often chasing females and trying to show off size and color.Just like the rest of the animal kingdom.