RCS gender

[Betta Platy Addict]

I was thinking all of my females died, but I am thinking this might be a female??? Or is it wishful thinking?

 

[Betta Platy Addict]

Could I have contracted that sentence any more poorly?! Sorry, my baby cried all night so I'm delirious today

 

[Jev12]

That looks like it could possibly be a female it has nice coloring to it

 

[Autumnsky]

The tail will have a wider, convex shape for a female, to help protect the babies.

Concave shape tail for male (?!?to fit better on female for breeding!?!)

My guess would be female.

 

[Betta Platy Addict]

The tail will have a wider, convex shape for a female, to help protect the babies.

Concave shape tail for male (?!?to fit better on female for breeding!?!)

My guess would be female.

Ohhhh that is good to know! Thank you!!! Fingers crossed for BABIES!

 

[Fishfur]

Have you seen any sign of the saddle yet ? Until a female saddles, she's not sexually mature, thus no babies.
Typically once they saddle they moult, then send out the mating pheromones, which call every male to try to mate with them, then eggs should appear.
Hope it's a girl !

 

[Sfgiants415]

100% Sure that's a female. She's beautiful too!

 

[Crinkledaces]

Agreed looks like a female to me. She is beautiful

 

[Betta Platy Addict]

Thanks guys! I have two that look like that. Have not seen them saddle, but I suppose they will in time.

 

[Sfgiants415]

People like myself induce mating by making a decent sized water change. Not too much, you don't want to change the parameters and shock them but the temperature change and clean water causes them to molt and when a female molts, well you get it.

I know whenever I do my weekly water change for my blue velvet tank, I see molts and new berried shrimp the very next day. I change about 40% from the 20 long.

 

[Betta Platy Addict]

Ok, I will try that. Thanks for the advise!

 

[Legit Fish]

they are supposed to show a saddle at that size that is weird

 

[Betta Platy Addict]

they are supposed to show a saddle at that size that is weird

I'm positive that I'm doing something wrong.

 

[GodFan]

I'm positive that I'm doing something wrong.

Not necessarily. We may have guessed the wrong gender here. Or she may be old and not going to make more eggs. Or she could have just hatched some! I found shrimplets in my tank after never seeing eggs lol

 

[Betta Platy Addict]

Not necessarily. We may have guessed the wrong gender here. Or she may be old and not going to make more eggs. Or she could have just hatched some! I found shrimplets in my tank after never seeing eggs lol

Oh how fun! I can't wait for babies.

 

[GodFan]

Oh how fun! I can't wait for babies.

Just keep the water clean and the params right. And give it time. If nothing happens in a whole buy a few more to make certain you have both sexes.

 

[octanejunkie]

We have 2 berried females a few days after finding two large molts.

Found this one Saturday

Found this one this morning

Water changes can stimulate molting, cooler temperature of water indicated mostly
Sexually mature, saddled females tend to become berried after molting, which is growing, to accommodate up to 100 eggs per batch...
The female needs to be large enough to hold the eggs.

A sign that the eggs are close to hatching is a new saddle visible in the female. She is producing her next batch of eggs even before the current batch hatches, she will become an egg factory. Neither of ours have saddles yet. 30-45 days is the normal holding time after seeing berries.

If you have male shrimp buzzing around your tank, knocking into stuff like the glass, wood, plants, whatever, it's a good indication that breeding will happen as soon as possible - that behavior is males looking to mate, feverishly.

Clean water, proper parameters, it will happen. Don't overfeed. Don't worry.
Most shrimp can be pretty low maintenance once established.