How to determine the gender of angelfish

Americans call scalar fish-angel at her finest silver fins that flutter like wings of the divine. The body of this beautiful fish has the shape of a flat triangle and unusual coloration with a possible bright stripes. Character scalars are very cautious and do not like noise. That is why it lives in the calm tropical waters, where briskly hides from its enemies among the dense algae and canes. This elusive exotic fish aquarists Europe and Russia, bred in the home from the beginning of the XX century, but still some of them don't know how to determine the gender of angelfish.

Instruction

1. Young skalyariy floor to define somewhat heavier than in adults. The first sex characteristics appear approximately at the age of 10 months. Look closely at the upper dorsal fin of your fish. Males have it slightly longer than the female. Also the male has more bars on the back of the dorsal fin. Angelfish have bright transverse stripes, which can change its colour, reacting to external factors and stimuli. Depending on the mood of the fish, the stripes can be black, pale or dim, which makes them virtually invisible. Unfortunately, even professional aquarist not always distinguished sexual characteristics in color.
2. There is another more accurate method of determining the sex of angelfish. It would also require a careful examination of your aquarium fish. The essence of sex determination is that the frontal part of males is broader and more convex, has the form of a steep hillock. In females also it has a concave shape. In General, males are always larger in size than the female.
3. Another distinctive feature of a male is the presence of a long dorsal fin. The female can be recognized by the presence of a protruding abdomen and the little bump that is near the genital opening.