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Sexing honey gourami

Ah, this was one big question I had. I have three honeys gouramis that are bright orange. Two of them have a dark black strip along their front bottom, while the other is solid orange. I was starting to think it might be sex difference, but now this thread has me thinking otherwise.

Anyway, although I am pretty new to fishkeeping, I'd like to try and breed some fish and was thinking of starting with these honeys.
 
essjay said:
If the dark black strips is from the mouth down under the front part of the fish, those are males. Females often have a darker stripe down their sides from mouth to tail. Look at the photos on Seriously Fish to see what I mean - they have photos of the natural coloured honey gouramis but not yellow honeys.

Trichogaster chuna – Honey Gourami (Colisa chuna, Trichopodus sota) — Seriously Fish

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Yeah, two of mine have that low front stripe, so seems they are males. The third one has no stripe at all, and I'm wondering if it not quite mature. I bought it only a week ago, and the others took some time to develop the striping.
 
If it's new it won't have settled in yet. But a stressed female usually has more of a stripe than a settled female.

What colour variant are they? The female's stripes are less obvious in some colours.
 
essjay said:
If it's new it won't have settled in yet. But a stressed female usually has more of a stripe than a settled female.

What colour variant are they? The female's stripes are less obvious in some colours.
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I don't know the exact color variant. They are a mild orangish-yellow. Not those red sunset fellows.
 
Wild coloured males are a sort of golden tan. The other colour variant is yellow - and definitely yellow; though males often have orange tails their bodies are yellow.

This is a male of the yellow form I had several years ago to compare with yours
honey gourami male.JPG
 
essjay said:
Wild coloured males are a sort of golden tan. The other colour variant is yellow - and definitely yellow; though males often have orange tails their bodies are yellow.

This is a male of the yellow form I had several years ago to compare with yours
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Yep. I have two that look very similar to that. So they are males of the yellow variant then.

And the third is a little smaller and not yet showing any stripe at all. Hopefully it's lady.
 
Since you've only had the fish a week, time will tell.

This was the female I had at the same time as the male
honey gourami female.jpg
 
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