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Hi, I'm having trouble telling if my discus is male or female. Can anyone help?

I have two pseudotropheus johanni from the same breeding group holding, and moved them to the same tank to relax a bit and have their babies. But, one day, one of them has a very full mouth and the other not so much. The next day, the second one's mouth looks full and the first one is only...

Does anyone know a way to tell which fry will be male? They are just under and inch long, and all of them look kind of female, with greenish yellow fins and some stripes on a gray body:

Here's an example. Very orange and some stripes are visible. The female adults are yellow but sometimes show brownish stripes.

My johanni had some fry, and they are all orange/yellow. Some of them have a deeper color and some are orange and showing brownish stripes. Are these darker ones going to turn blue eventually? Or would male fry be blue right from the beginning?

I expected them to be dark pink: males, and pale pink: females. But instead there is deeper orange and paler pink. Any idea which ones are the males?

I have 5 small dragonbloods, and 3 of them are a deeper orange and two are a paler pink. Would that be male and female difference or different color variations within the same species?

I bought 8 that were supposed to be female then they all started turning blue when I got home. This has happened to me before. So I vented them and most if not all of them are female, including the big one with dark stripes. There is no male in their tank yet so perhaps a female fills in as...

I'm finding saulosi to be really tricky to determine the sex. I vented these ones so now I know for sure. But I'd like to hear your guesses:

Can anyone please help? Are these male or female?

Hi, I got a Ziss Brine shrimp hatchery, and after using it the first time, there was what looked like unhatched eggs at the bottom. So when I drained the water, I got these eggs along with the live baby brine shrimp. In the videos, other people don't seem to have this problem. Any idea what...

Hi, I have soft water and have a planted mbuna tank. I currently add these two products: API pH 8.2 for pH and KH Seachem Equilibrium for GH Is there a single product I could use instead of two different products? Or some other combination of additives that would be better for some reason...

I'm converting my planted community tank into an mbuna african cichlid tank. I read about how mbuna and plants don't get along, but I'm not one to heed advice so I just went ahead and added some aragonite sand and some pH 8.2 chemicals and put in the mbuna and removed the other fish to another...

No.... I requested 2m4f but didn't require it since inqasnt sure if they were old enough to be sexable. Since he had a new batch of 50 in stock I assumed if sexable, he would have enough females. Apparently someone more important got thr females. Anyway, now they have ick. They don't seem...

I just got them yesterday. Requested 2m 4f. Its a 29g and wanted to have a species tank and these seemed like the most suitable mbuna species. But 6 males.... omg they were expensive too and I will probably have to give them away. No more online fish buying for me