Male vs. Female?

I have no idea if I have set-up a mating tank or not. I most certainly did not plan to,but if so I will be doing a lot of research.
So I have several questions,
1. How can you tell male/female GLOfish apart?
2. Can you tell neon tetra male/fermale apart?
Also I have two mystery snails. How do they reproduce?
Lastly, what signs do I look for to show mating/eggs/ little babies coming my way?

I am mostly concerned with the glofish mating. Lately they have been very lively near the bottom, most in the divets in the gravel. Of course the y are active and can be nippy at times but two of the glofish seem heavily concentrated on the divets in the gravel for the past day or two.
Thank you
Smacy

 

Hiya
I'll give you what info I can, but I'm sure there are others lurking here that can expand

Glofish and neon tetras are both "monomorphic" (means you can't tell their gender by colours, markings, or fins etc). The best way to tell a male from a female is;
a) the size of the fish, females typically being larger (my female cardinal tetras are a half centimeter longer than my males),
b) the depth of the fish. Females have a deeper body for carrying the eggs and will have a bigger stomach area than males. I've never seen adult glofish, but with neon tetras there is a distinct size difference between males and females usually.

With mystery snails (someone please confirm this?) I'm pretty sure they are hermaphrodites (each snail is both male and female) and can therefore reproduce by themselves. They lay their eggs above the waterline, but I don't know if they're a scatter layer, or a cocoon layer.

 

Hello, being a newbie I don't have any concrete answers for you but, I had a couple of zebra danios which I'm pretty sure are the same as glofish showing the same behaviour around gravel divets you are encountering, rubbing against eachother and such. A week or so later I had fry! Out of mine, the one I assumed to be the male had much longer finnage than the female.

 

HI Smacy, I can respond to 1 since I also have glofish and can tell which are female versus male. Female glofish are larger around the front bottom than male glofish. Males are more streamlined. When you first get them from the pet store the females will also look small and streamlined most likely because they are still young, but as the females mature they fill out more whereas the males stay streamlined.

However, unless you are actively trying to breed them I think you are very unlikely to succeed with these kinds of egg laying fish. Most likely the eggs will get eaten. Fish like eating caviar.

 

I think mystry snails need a male and female to repoduce, not positive though , don't exactly remember. If you keep the water level up in the tank, they won't lay eggs.

 

Out of mine, the one I assumed to be the male had much longer finnage than the female.

Just to let you know that some danios have larger fins than others, but this is not a difference between male and female in danios - either a male or a female danio could have longer or shorter fins.

Take a look at this thread: The picture shows two red glofish. The top one is female and the bottom one is male.

 

Well they got you the info on the Glo and Neons. Females are just more curvy in basic. After a time, it will be second nature to sex them. As for the apple snails, most species need a male and female, then they will lay their eggs out of the water. generally speaking they require a certain type of set up to some extent, you don't want them making their own . Ive seen people make plywood lids for the snails to put their egg clusters on, this keeps the other equipment safe from being covered in eggs.

 

With mystery snails (someone please confirm this?) I'm pretty sure they are hermaphrodites (each snail is both male and female) and can therefore reproduce by themselves. They lay their eggs above the waterline, but I don't know if they're a scatter layer, or a cocoon layer.

Yep. That's how they got the name 'mystery snail' For several months I had 1 pondsnail. Now I have 2!