Is My Guppy Male Or Female?

[hanny93]

I recently bought four guppies, supposedly 3 females and 1 male. 1 of the females died and I'm now left with 2 females/1 male.

However, I've noticed they all have the same shape fins, and I think it is a gonopodium.

If they are infact all males, what can I do?
I bought them at my lfs and they were labelled as male and female in separate tanks.

I've attached the best picture I could get in over half an hour of photographing the little torpedos!

Hopefully someone can help me!
http/i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc375/hannuh93/P2150040.jpg

 

[Westwood]

The fish in the pic is a male!

 

[hanny93]

I knew it!

I'm seething, absolutely seething!

Can the lfs sell males as females, or can I get some sort of compensation?

 

[Biffle16]

The male guppy usually is slender and has a much broader tail and the female is plumper and has a very visable black/red spot to her bottom side called a gravid spot. Even at 2-3 weeks when they start developing their sex the spot is visable. I currently have 13 Guppy fry, 5 that are 6 weeks and 8 that are 1 1/2 weeks old and even at 1 1/2 have I can tell which is which already. Hope this picture helps....Good luck......you will have baby fry every 4-6 weeks if you do not seperate the males and females.....

 

[hanny93]

The male guppy usually is slender and has a much broader tail and the female is plumper and has a very visable black/red spot to her bottom side called a gravid spot. Even at 2-3 weeks when they start developing their sex the spot is visable. I currently have 13 Guppy fry, 5 that are 6 weeks and 8 that are 1 1/2 weeks old and even at 1 1/2 have I can tell which is which already. Hope this picture helps....Good luck......you will have baby fry every 4-6 weeks if you do not seperate the males and females.....

Sorry but are you saying that they are males or females?
I need to know, I did intend on breeding them, even if just for the experience, but obviously if they are all males I cant breed them..

 

[BigC]

Can the lfs sell males as females, or can I get some sort of compensation?

To be perfectly honest that pic, although it's definitely a male, the fish is not far removed from some female colourations of today.
The only thing that would have differentiated and should have been spotted would that the female would be deeper bodied and would almost certainly have been pregnant in the dealers tanks. (Guppy females like many live-bearing fish can store sperm for multiple broods after the initial act of insemination) So to give the LFS assistant the benefit of the doubt here, it was probably a mistake and can be forgiven in a rush.
They will probably offer you an exchange if that's what you would like but non show standard guppies are ten a penny these days so maybe you'd just be better off buying a couple of females.
Regards
C