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Shanna66

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:38 pm


i have no idea how to tell the gender of my cory catfish and my new honey gouramis. is there any way to tell? i dont plan on breeding, im just curious
PostPosted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:47 am


Corys I can't really help you with. I think the larger/fatter and rounder (vieuwed from above) might be the females, but I'm not sure.

Honeys are an interesting case. If I remember correctly you currently have juveniles, telling their gender is near impossible.

In the wild form mature dominant males develop a black line along their a**l fin. The more dominant he is, the larger it will be, and it can engulf the entire a**l fin and extend onto the chest and create a sort of mask.
Their bodies are also quite red/orange and they have a bright yellow dorsal fin.
Mature females are more brownish yellow with a brown lateral line.
The catch is, that juvenila males and submissive males that live around a dominant male look exactly like a female.

With color variants it gets even harder, since the black line is usually absent. I'd say the brightest fish will most deffinately be a male, but who the females are will be guess work. Females tend to have rounder dorsal fins, but I still find it hard t base gender on fin shape.
If your dominant male 'dances' (vertical flaring and leading the other fish around the tank) for another fish, it might be a female. But it has happened before that even dominant males mistook a juvenile male as a female.

Male; wild form, note the pointy dorsal fin
Female; wild form with rounder fins

Hope this helps a bit.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:04 pm


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With corys you need a large group of full grown ones and you look at the size. There might be other signs within the different types of them so you'd have to look up your species. But usually the females are bigger with rounder tums like irrlich said.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:58 am


ok, also my gouramis turn silver when i first turn the light on in the morning. does that mean they are stressed? they turn back to normal after i feed them

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:21 pm


Yes that's stress.
It'd be an idea to turn on the other lights of the room first, starting with the furthest and dimest lights.
Make it a half hour proces.
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