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Posted by heliophobe on February 27, 2003 at 19:04:40:

I have (5) long fin gold skirt tetras. I've done a bunch of research to figure out how to sex them. All I've come up with is this:
1) it is far from easy to tell
2) Female is larger and rounder
3) male dorsal fin is narrower and comes to a point
4) female anal fin is parallel with black strip on stomach(assuming this was for black skirt)
5) male dorsal fin is larger
6) male anal fin is larger
7) female fins have no ray extensions
8) female caudal is smaller

Is any of this accurate? If not, what is?

Any help would be appreciated.

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