Zebras

[patchman]

i have 4 zebras from 2-4 inches long, i dont know what sex they are, if someone could give me some colour guides or something that would be helpful.

 

[Matt Gleadow]

With mine I could tell which were the males as they have a blue tinge to them, especially on their fins and tail. I posted pics on here aswell just so other people could confirm what I thought

 

[patchman]

could u put a link to that post pls

 

[nukeonekitty]

Mine in my sig is a male. You can tell by how blue his fins are, you can kind of tell by how they act, the males are very dominant and the females are submissive.

 

[clareriley]

With mine the females are a more duller colour

 

[patchman]

all of them accept the smallest one has egg spots, and two of the larger ones fight regularly. yet they all appear to have the same colour, they are just bright orange, no blue on any of them.

 

[clareriley]

all of them accept the smallest one has egg spots, and two of the larger ones fight regularly. yet they all appear to have the same colour, they are just bright orange, no blue on any of them.

My large male doesnt have blue on him. look
and my female is bright orange with egg spots and she has given me babies now. bless her
this is my male

this is my female

 

[thegnu]

well you learn something everyday. i thought only males had egg spots, so when spawning the female tries to get the males egg spots into her mouth (dummy eggs) and then gets a good squirt of the males milt or sperm

 

[clareriley]

well you learn something everyday. i thought only males had egg spots, so when spawning the female tries to get the males egg spots into her mouth (dummy eggs) and then gets a good squirt of the males milt or sperm

They do, if you have true wc ones lol. they are bred so much that you just cant tell anymore. My female looks like it should be male but she has just had babies, same as my female yellow lab, she looks like a dominant male but she isnt lol..

Over the years sex identity has been bred out of many fish.

 

[loafybones]

Females sometimes have egg spots to stop the males from pestering them- that's what I heard.

You can tell which are the males if you sit and watch for a while and the males get a bit randy they dance. The males fight with each other sometimes too but the females just swim around minding their own business.