Endler Sexing

[paulf]

Can some one tell me why all my endler fry seem to be females? the temps at 24c and all the water stats are fine. I have about 14 now from two females and all seem females

Im thinking that they need warmer waters?

 

[donna123]

hi,
how old are they?

 

[paulf]

The adults are around 4 months old and the fry are any thing from a month to 1 day old, mostly are 3-4 weeks

 

[donna123]

hi,
all my fry around 3-4 months before i can tell what sex they will be,
i seem to get more females my temp is 24deg.

 

[paulf]

hi,
all my fry around 3-4 months before i can tell what sex they will be,
i seem to get more females my temp is 24deg.

The thing is fry can be sexed from 5-6 weeks of age and females can breed from 2 months and the best way to sex them is to see if they are pregnant, I have some very small pregnant ones.
I am going to up the temp and see what happens

 

[helterskelter]

These fish do take 5-6 weeks but some time it take a little longer but at 24 that about right for them.

The first way to sex is that young males gonopodium will start to devlope, the anal fin on the young males will start to thicken up.

At this stage i strat to remove the males to a different tank or a breeding trap.

This is to stop the males breeding with the young females and to get good sized fish.

However I seen many people keeping parents with fry and no splitting of the sexes and still getting wanderfully sized fish.

Back to the ratios, you allways have fry looking like females, and i wouls give then a few more weeks and you will get males poping up soon.

Helter

 

[paulf]

Thanks

I dont usually keep livebearers as my discus normally eat anything that small but I thought they would be good for my cory tanks

 

[Betta5]

males will look like females, sometimes till 5-6 weeks. even more sometimes