Sex Of A Fish?

[RiiCKYOMD]

Platys? How you sex them
I got 2 and do they breed propa easily?

 

[rabbut]

Platys? How you sex them
I got 2 and do they breed propa easily?

Easy enough to sex. Look in the normal position of the anal fin. The females have the usual looking anal fin, where as the males have a glupodium (possibly spelt wrong)(think human gender difference). They are easy enough to breed. Feed well on good quality foods, and introduce the selected male and female to your breeding tank (should be kept seporate untill this point). Leave them in this tank together for a week. Remove the male, leave the female in. After arround 30days, the female will drop free swimming fry into the tank. Remove the female from the tank, and keep seporate from any males for a week.
This is best done in a tank that is heavily planted with fine leaved plants. This give the fry more cover to hide from the female before you remove them.
HTH
rabbut

 

[RiiCKYOMD]

Platys? How you sex them
I got 2 and do they breed propa easily?

Easy enough to sex. Look in the normal position of the anal fin. The females have the usual looking anal fin, where as the males have a glupodium (possibly spelt wrong)(think human gender difference). They are easy enough to breed. Feed well on good quality foods, and introduce the selected male and female to your breeding tank (should be kept seporate untill this point). Leave them in this tank together for a week. Remove the male, leave the female in. After arround 30days, the female will drop free swimming fry into the tank. Remove the female from the tank, and keep seporate from any males for a week.
This is best done in a tank that is heavily planted with fine leaved plants. This give the fry more cover to hide from the female before you remove them.
HTH
rabbut

Thanks I did research on google but it just kept using long words

 

[rdd1952]

From Drs. Foster & Smith's LiveAquaria.com:

"The male is smaller and more brightly colored than the female, and can be distinguished by his gonopodium."

Definition of gonopodium.