Another Newbie Wanting A Dwarf Gouramis Sexed.

[rmanpf]

i am new to gouramis but i have decided to get two dwarf gouramis, so i decided to get a male and female, maybe two females and a male, and i want to beable to spot the females from the males. Can someone show me some pics or something?



Ryan T

 

[rmanpf]

anyone?

 

[connorsbala]

If its the normal dwarf gouramis your after...the males are larger and red with blue spots and the females are small and plain silver

 

[ALW]

Dwarf Gouramis should be kept a 1 male per 2 females

Male Dwarf Gourami [URL="http/www.thekrib.com/Fish/gourami.jpg"]http/www.thekrib.com/Fish/gourami.jpg[/URL]

Female Dwarf Gourami [URL="http/www.petfish.net/pix/artskb1/dg_AiWen_2.jpg"]http/www.petfish.net/pix/artskb1/dg_AiWen_2.jpg[/URL]

Females are alot smaller than the males

 

[rmanpf]

what about the really shiny bluue ones, they have no stripes and none are silver. how do i tell?

 

[bugman2494]

The really blue ones you may be refereing to are neon blue dwarf gouramis or cobalt blue gourami
The first photo Andy provided was a original dwarf gourami with no colour mutations.

The 2nd photo was actually a female of a neon blue dwarf gourami. (How I can tell? Female neon blue dwarf gouramis have black marking inbetween body and tail.

Photo of male neon blue dwarf gourami:
http/lh3.ggpht.com/_4RJ3pyFCi2w/Rc9Elr7x...ts/IMG_2276.JPG

Photo of male cobalt dwarf gourami:
http/www.allfishthailand.com/images/imag...f%20gourami.jpg