How can you tell??

[Cavafish]

Hi

I have 5 tigers and 5 green tiger barbs. How do you sex them? they all look the same to me.......

 

[drobbins27]

Its almost impossible....If you are thinking about breeding them, you'll have to wait for them to pair off naturally...Breeding barbs if very difficult tho

 

[Lateral Line]

Female tiger barbs are a little deeper in the body and noticeably wider when viewed from above. Males when in good condition have much brighter colours, in particular, they develop a strong red colouration from the nose up over the head towards the dorsal fin.

They are not the easiest of barbs to breed. In good water conditions you can get them to spawn readily enough, but the eggs won't hatch in anything but soft acidic water. The fry are also small and very sensitive to nitrogen pollution, (as indeed, are the adults).

Green tiger barbs are the same species so the same applies, although the colouration is more difficult to spot on very dark examples.

 

[millym]

as lateral l says look at the noses- males have brighter orange noses than the females & females have plumper bodies( generally) our 3 green tiger barbs also have the bright orange noses ( we have all boys)

 

[Cavafish]

Many thanks !

I had a white cloud minnow which developed a really red nose once because of an injury and subsequently died. Not going to worry now when I examine my barbs tonight in greater detail.

 

[Doggfather]

just the way LL said