Male Or Female

[Joemuz]

How can you tell the diffrence between male and female kissing gourami? As i got my two about 7 months ago and they where the same size. One has grown much larger than the other and the the larger one has different fins to the the smaller one? Any suggestions?

 

[sylvia]

It is impossible to visualy sex these fish unless they are spawning. There are no fin differences and the body differences only show up when the female is particularly gravid. The size difference is slight and you need to wait until they reach full size to judge this. Considering they get to at least 10" (usualy more), it's unlikely that yours are fully grown.

The size differences you've mentioned are almost certainly because you have only two. As a result, one is dominant over the other and therefore slightly hinders the other's development by out-competing it when it comes to food and forcing it to use up energy to combat stress.