Butterfly

Here are some pictures of angelfish with their breeding tubes out.
Female breeding tube is kind of stubby like a pencil

male breeding tube is more pin like

Thanks goes to Skippi for the pictures
carol

Xenomorph

Hi Butterfly - the images are no longer valid, any chance you can re-upload them? I'm curious about angelfish and am considering them should my last 2 guppies not survive this darned cycle I thought was finished...

Butterfly

Thanks for letting me know they were gone I tried to edit the original post but it didn't work so I'll try here
The female breeding tube is kind of stubby

And the male more pin like

again thanks go to skippi for allowing me to use her pictures.
Carol

Xenomorph

WOW! and that's the only way to tell? and even then only during a short period when they're in mating season? I'm going to have to haunt my LFS daily waiting for the right time - or at least waiting for them to pair off...

Thanks for re-posting, I'm just trying to make sure I do the right thing research wise.

Butterfly

When they are spawning it's really apparent who is who. I posted a video at youtube of one of my pairs spawning
Heres the link for the vids. It says jagxl01 under them (hubbys account, my pics )
http://www.youtube.com/group/Fishlore
Carol

Allie

That's how I've sexing mine too...but I find my males seem to have a rounder forehead compared to the females which seem to be a slope. I have been right so far.

capekate

I hear that the male has the bump on the forehead just above the eyes, and the female is smoother and rounded. Tho it is one way to identify the gender, its not always reliable.
~ kate

Isabella

Here are a few pics of Angelfish male's and female's breeding tubes. The first 2 pictures are of the female's breeding tube, and the 3rd and 4th picture are of the male's breeding tube.

Tom

Sorry, this is a little but I would really like to know and didn't feel like starting a new post. Is it just me or are the elongated pectoral fins a blueish color when the fish is sexually mature?
Tom

Isabella

I'm not sure Tom. All I know is that the mom of my Angels is a blue-blushing type, so maybe this is where the blue color in my Angels' fins comes from.

Tom

Like look at the pics of other peoples angels, the pectoral fins have a blueish hue to it.
Tom

Allie

All 8 fish that are here have the bluish elongated pectoral fins...except my black one.

Butterfly

I really don't think color has anything to do with determining angelfish gender
Carol

Tom

It's not gender, it's the sexual maturaty(?).
Tom

Butterfly

If I understand correctly, your asking if sexually mature angelfish display a blue color on their fins right?
My Koi, Marbles or Black Lace didn't display any blue any where on their body and they were all sexually mature.
But whatever color your angels are those colors will be more vivid when spawning.
Carol

Tom

I haven't seen it in my angels when I just look at them, I have to take a pic of them and then I see it is like a reflection from the flash. I've also noticed you can't see it in young angels.
Tom

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So would I be right in saying that young Angelfish are practically impossible to figure out which is male and which is female?

COBettaCouple

I think the males have a bit more of a 'bump' just past the snout than the females, but I'm not sure how young they can be for that method.