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The top one (grey with a dark stripe) looks like a female of the natural colour. The bottom looks like a red honey gourami (possibly a red robin) and it is much harder to tell with them as males and females look alike. You have to go by fin shape with this variety. In the pic, its fins look quite rounded at the edges which indicates female.

It is  much easier to tell the sexes with the natural and yellow colours.

Well, after watching these fellas on and off for most of the day I'm coming to believe that the brighter of the two may indeed be male.  There's a definite light trim to the edges of the anal fins. (Or am I seeing things - what do you think?)

EDIT.  Also, if you look at the dorsal fin in the pic above, it looks like it's more "sticking up and pointy" than the female's which I've read elsewhere is another indicator.

And more...

My son and his girlfriend came round the weekend with 7 baby guppies for me.  Luckily I'd been setting up the 12L tank so they're housed in there for now until they're big enough to determine their sexes. 

I'm pretty sure that the largest 4 at least are females so the last thing I wanted was to put them in the main tank with 3 randy male Endlers...

Hi Ken,

Your gouramis look like.....well..a couple of honeys They're really pretty, I love the shape of gouramis.
How are your baby guppies doing? Do you know yet how many male/female ones you have? Will you keep them all, but in seperate tanks or will your son have some back?

Tried to grab a few pictures of the 4 females(?)...

There's one that might possibly be a male (pic #5) but that might just be poo...

Aaah....thanks Ken, it's nice to be back
Honestly, the broadband here is bad enough without the livebox getting cooked each time we have a storm! It was a good one though and we took a direct overhead hit....hubby even got a belt in his tummy 'cos he had his laptop on his....well.. lap! Don't quite know how that works, but there you are
Unfortunately, unlike the UK, where everything is available immediately, here in France you have to wait for EVERYTHING! So, each time, a new box takes about a week and comes through the post. You can go to the phone shop but they don't keep anything in stock???

Anyway, here I am back.....but very sad to see that ColinB has left the forum...I hope he decides to come back

It's so-ooo difficult, isn't it, to decide on what fishies to get? Like you say...not enough tank space! At least you have got your 12L to find little residents for...how exciting! Have you got any thoughts on that yet?

I love your little endlers, I had only seen pics of them until last week when I went in to my LFS and they had some. They are so vibrant, aren't they? The ones they had were sort of green and red.
What a good idea for a stand, those nests of tables are usually really robust....I LOVE up-cycling things!

It's so funny seeing the endlers and guppies in their right places...that'll be your army training coming out then? Do they have to make sure that their fins are very shiny too?

I wasn't sure if maybe the little guppy in picture 3 (I think) is maybe a little chap too?

Keep posting pics, won't you? I love to see them. I must have another go with mine...but I can't seem to get them to load properly lately

Nice speaking to you again...

Resa
 

LOL Resa - left right left right...

Thanks Sue.  I'll certainly keep a close eye on things and as soon as the minis are a bit bigger - off to the small tank they go.  I didn't want to put them in straight away in case the water params weren't quite right.  Smaller = less robust I expect?  They're getting to be nearly as big as the Endlers now though so it won't be long.

EDIT:  Done.  All 7 in the 12L until I can sort out who's who and what's what.