Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Identification => Topic started by: Pawel on July 15, 2014, 09:44:06 AM
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I have been looking at my fishes with my four year old son and identifying males and females. Guppies were really easy, as we only have guppy boys :) Chain loaches were not so easy, we have four and they are different sizes. Is there an easy way to identify them?
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I don't think there is any way to tell the sexes with chain loaches. It doesn't matter about the m/f ratio like with livebearers. And since they've not been known to breed in captivity, it doesn't matter which sexes you have you won't get fry.
These fish were (and perhaps still are) on the endangered species list. They have been bred in fish farms with the use of hormones
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Thank you, Sue.
I read somewhere that adult males have a longer snout, but mine are different ages, so will need to wait a bit to put that to a test.
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Ooooh not come across that before! I'll have to look at the snouts of mine ;D
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I had a little look and found it on Seriously fish: "Sexually mature females are normally fuller-bodied and grow a little larger than males, while adult males develop slightly elongated snouts plus noticeably fleshy, thickened lips."
Now I'm curious to find out what you have!