Can anyone help determine sex of my angelfish?

[Colin_BC]

I suspect my favourite angelfish, is a female, but I'm not 100% sure. Can anyone help me identify the gender of it? It has a rounded protrusion from near the anal fin. So did my gold angel and one of them layed eggs. Usually they were inseperable in the aquarium. don't know who layed the eggs. The gold angel cared for the eggs (until it ate them all or the filter got them) and wouldn't let my black angel (mentioned here) anywhere near.

Anyhelp figuring out the sex of this ngelfish is appreciated!

Colin

 

[Colin_BC]

Here's one of my new 4 year old male and my smaller unknown gender Angelfish. The male's breeding tube is somewhat visible.

Here's a close-up...

And here's another shot of the one I'm trying to determine sex on. I suspect female, but would appreciate hearing from someone with a bit more experience in the matter than me...

Colin

 

[KnuckleHead]

From what I can see it definatly appears to be female. Of course even those of us that have been breeding for years get fooled on occasion.

 

[Daveo]

MY guess is that it is a female

 

[Nix]

looks female to me

 

[Colin_BC]

That's what I was hoping for! The camera doesn't pick up the true colours of the female, but in her silver on the sides a lot of it is actually a silver-green or silver-blue. Her head/top is bright yellow with some orange. I told my LFS owner about this when I mentioned that I wanted to trade in my Gold Angel as I suspected I had 2 females. After hearing about my original black angel, my LFS owner suggested it would be a good one to breed. That's when I asked if he had any nice known males and I got the male you see above.

The new male and my original black/silver angel seem to get along quite well, following each other everywhere.

Colin