Female or Young male Kribensis?

[Bella123]

Female or Young male Kribensis?

 

[Ichthys]

Check the pelvic fins. Females’ are small and rounded, males’ are long and pointed.

 

[Bella123]

Are you able to tell from the photos I sent? I keep going back a fourth.

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

Look female to me. Males are longer in the body, females have a nice rotund belly

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

Female at the top, male on the bottom

 

[Bella123]

Is it not possible that he is just young? I got sold it and the worker said it was a distinctive male???

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

Is it not possible that he is just young? I got sold it and the worker said it was a distinctive male???

Nope. Young males are still narrow in the body.

 

[Ichthys]

You can tell when they’re an inch long. It looks very female to me. Short pelvic fins, purple belly, and the bulge is too far back to be food, suggesting the female rotundness that males don’t get.
A picture with the pelvic fins out would confirm.

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

See how my females fins around her belly are rounded in shape?

And here my males fins are pointed

 

[Bella123]

Hiya, thankyou so much for the clarification, I keep getting it wrong, but now I know specifically what to look out for!

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

We all learn along the way that store worker obviously couldn't tell a fin from his flap distinctively rubbish!

 

[GaryE]

A trick with many colour forms of P pulcher is o look at the very back of the dorsal. Females often have a dark spot there - males don't. You can often sex them very young with that, although it's clearer in their relative, the real P kribensis.