Just Brought 3 Guppies ! :o)

[aly_starh]

Just brought 3 Guppies!
LFS said they are all males, im pretty sure its 2 females and 1 male

What the hey... he said my male Betta was a Female


One's tail is all yellow (female)
One's tail is all orange (female)
One's tail is grey/blue with black dotted type pattern (male)

Correct me if i'm wrong?!?!?

Betta_246


[URL="http/www.ppaquarium.com/view.asp?page=TA012"]http/www.ppaquarium.com/view.asp?page=TA012[/URL] (blue)

[URL="http/www.ppaquarium.com/view.asp?page=TA005"]http/www.ppaquarium.com/view.asp?page=TA005[/URL] (yellow)

[URL="http/www.myfishtank.net/freshwater-fish/...sunshine-guppy/"]http/www.myfishtank.net/freshwater-fish/...sunshine-guppy/[/URL] (orange)


EDIT: ADDED LINKS...

 

[amyw2008]

Got any pics of them?
Im my experience the males are the colourful ones and the females are the plain ones.... (maybewith a black or dark coloured tail)

 

[coldcazzie]

The way to tell is their fins. Males have a pointy anal fin called a gonopodium (sp?) - females don't, their anal fins are triangular.

Failing that, wait and see if you get some babies - if you do, you know they aint all guys lol

 

[aly_starh]

Added links...!

 

[amyw2008]

To me they all look like males but if you get babies then one of them isnt

 

[aly_starh]

Oh Darn It.... was really hoping for atleast 1 female!!
If they are three males will they fight?

 

[amyw2008]

I have 6 males and they dont bother eachother....
I have one female who dropped 9 fry this morning so I put them in a breeding net and turned the light back off as she looked like she hadnt finished... I will check again later

 

[coldcazzie]

If they are three males will they fight?

No. They'll be quite happy together. If you want females as well, make sure you get the ratio right when you go buy them - you need 3 females to 1 male, otherwise they'll get harrassed and stressed.

 

[aly_starh]

If they are three males will they fight?

No. They'll be quite happy together. If you want females as well, make sure you get the ratio right when you go buy them - you need 3 females to 1 male, otherwise they'll get harrassed and stressed.

coldcazzie... do you think there all males?

 

[coldcazzie]

If they all look like the ones in the pictures then definitely yes. If you look at the fins in the pictures you can clearly see the pointy fin under their belly - females have a triangular one. Once you see females and males together they are very obviously different.

Why not go back in a week or so and ask for some females as well?

 

[Yanks15]

Look like all males to me.

 

[Truck]

Look like all males to me.

theyre not his fish...theyre from another site those pics

 

[Yanks15]

OK, but still look like males.

 

[Harlequins]

have you got pics of your own guppies? or do the fins look identical to the pics you've shown?

 

[OldMan47]

Time for some minor intervention. Don't even ask the gender of your fish. You can see them much easier than we can and so here is how you decide. First you start by completely ignoring the color since it means nothing at all. The pet shop pictures of the first 2 are definite males but the third link is already not working. The difference in male and female guppies is the same as in swordtails, platies, or mollies or this similarly sexed fish that you probably don't know. The advantage of this fish is that it has no colors to throw you off. The shape of the anal fin, the one right next to where the fish eliminates its waste, is the determining factor.

This is a female fish that has a fan shaped, you might call it triangular, anal fin.

This is a male of the same species. It has a long thin fin that is quite flexible and can be moved around by the male in place of the fan shaped one of the female. The long thin fin is called a gonopodium and is used to place sperm into the female fish in a fashion similar to the way it is done with mammals.

Ignore the colors of your fish, their tail shapes, their belly shapes and anything else you may have been looking at and focus on the anal fin to determine their gender. Only some very fancy long finned common livebearers like highly developed highfin platies can be a bit hard to tell but a guppy is not such a fish.