Is It A Male Or Female?

[mystus]

is this platy a male or female?

http/s598.photobucket.com/albums/tt64/mystus808/?action=view&current=8thgrde005.jpg

 

[walkers101]

i would say female imo

 

[Jenste]

is it the one on the back left?
looks male to me with the pointed anal fin

 

[stang1]

Looks like a male to me too.

 

[Jenste]

unrelated, but Stang1 - - awesome photo in your sig!

 

[Paradise3]

Stang1 just has awesome picture in sig and avatar.
And it's a male.

Alessa x.

 

[stang1]

Lol, thanks Jenste and Alessa

 

[Paradise3]

Your welcome stang.
I guess you like vampires then?

Alessa x.

 

[stang1]

Your welcome stang.
I guess you like vampires then?

Alessa x.

Just love anything to do with fantasy art, especially dragons and wizards. I have tons of different photos stored of fantasy art and have drawn a few pics myself. Not sure why I like it, just appreciate it.
Get a feeling you like dragons too?

 

[Paradise3]

Yeah it's pretty obvious lol.
I love anything gothic basically, dragons, dark fairies, vampire, ect, ect.....

Alessa x.

 

[helterskelter]

the main one on the left is a male 100%
and the one to the right is a female

 

[Fish_Man43]

is this platy a male or female?

http/s598.photobucket.com/albums/tt64/mystus808/?action=view&current=8thgrde005.jpg

Just thought it might be help full to put your photo on, it's a male to me too

 

[OldMan47]

Your pictures show only male samples of fish. I am going to go out on a limb and give you an easy way to decide the sex of common livebearers. A female common livebearer has an anal fin, the fin next to where she eliminated her waste, that is triangular or fan shaped in its appearance. This is a female of a common type livebearer showing the typical common livebearer shape of anal fin.

A male, on the other hand, has an anal fin that has been modified into a gonopodium that he uses as a sex organ. It is long and thin instead of fan shaped and will tell you he is a male. This is a male of the same species as the female picture showed.

As you can probably tell in an instant, these fish do not show the same shaped anal fin. The male and female are very easy to tell apart with these common type livebearers. Although some of the common livebearers have things like fin shape or fin size that differentiate the sexes, these anal fin configurations so not change. Some of the fancy hi-fin livebearers must be closely examined since the hi-fin trait can make it harder to tell a male from a female. A female hifin can have a long anal fin but still has a fan shaped anal fin with a mere long first ray on the anal fin. It is a good enough imitation of a gonopodium to fool many new livebearer keepers.

 

[mystus]

no the one going off the screen is female. the rest of her anal fin is transparent in the picture. Thanks for the help i couldn't tell because it looks like the main fish in the picture had the anal that looks like it could have been bitten.

 

[walkers101]

doh trust me to look at the wrong one