How to tell male and female red zebrafish apart? Master these features to identify them easily

The red zebrafish is a very popular ornamental fish, deeply loved by people for its lively and active nature and good looks. Generally, people who keep fish will keep a few, so how do you tell male and female red zebrafish apart?

1. How to tell male and female red zebrafish apart?

Red zebrafish can be distinguished as male or female by body shape and various other features. Generally, the male red zebrafish has a slender body, a yellowish body color, large fins, and a brownish-yellow anal fin. The female red zebrafish has a relatively plump body, a lighter, slightly bluish body color, and a pale yellow anal fin.

2. What do red zebrafish eat?

1. Fry stage: mainly brine shrimp and paramecia. Both of these foods are feed that helps small fry start feeding, but both need to be hatched yourself. The process is simple, and hatching is complete in about 36 hours. If you do not want to hatch them yourself, there is another way, which is to feed egg yolk water or cooked egg yolk powder. When feeding this food, it is not recommended to feed too much, as it easily spoils the water quality. The specific amount needs to be judged by yourself.

2. Adult stage: adults can generally just be fed tropical fish feed.

Overall, male and female red zebrafish are still quite easy to distinguish, and can be told apart by several features such as body shape, color, and fins. If you do not know how to distinguish them, you can identify them by the methods above.