Male? Female?

[jillybean1852]

Hi everyone. Im new here and am sure this question has been asked prolly a thousand times, lol, but I was wondering if you can tell the sex of oscars by their appearence? I have heard that females tend to get bigger then males, then of course heard it the other way around as well. I know I have one of each bc I they have already bread once, but I am not sure which is which. Has anyone ever heard the size difference before and know if there is any truth to it or any other way to tell? I have pictures of mine in my blog if anyone would like to looksee. :c3:

[cocoa_pleco]

nope, you cant tell by appearance, you can only tell by when they breed

[jillybean1852]

what about personalities? manorisms? etc? does one tend to favor certain habits then the other?

[cocoa_pleco]

not really, theyre almost the same, you just have to let them pair off

[jillybean1852]

Yeah, thats kind of what I figured, but at the same time was hoping there was some tell tale sign for each of them...lol Thanks so much! :)

[angelcakes]

its when you see breeding tubes you can the difference,the male is short and pointy where as the female is long and has a flat end,

[jillybean1852]

at the risk of sounding like a complete & total idiot, LMAO, what is/where are the breading tubes?

[angelcakes]

you'll have to wait for them to appear...they come from somewhere on the middle section on the under belly.........ive seen mine only once on my female oscar

[jillybean1852]

OOooohhh! THATS what that was?? lol I do think I saw them then and the real funny thing is, that means I named them appropriately...LMAO! :) thanks so much angelcakes! :)