cheni loaches - male or female

[fifi]

Hi all ,
I’ve got 3 cheni loaches in my tank. ..Can someone suggest on how to determine the difference between male & female? The information ive read until now didn’t help me a lot.
Ive got 1 dark coloured cheni loach which is also the smallest of them all and 2 others are slightly bigger and lighter coloured.

.....a few pictures i managed to take as they r fast lil fish







....and a small video of a play?/fight?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZqEdriHT2k
Thanks

[mickthefish]

it's not easy to see if they have tubercules around the head.
ive got 9 of them and to get a decent pic of the head i had to put the fish in a show tank.
i'm sorry i can't be more helpful than that Fifi.

mick

[fifi]

Thank u Mick,

i’ve tried to make better photos.. still I cant see any tubercules on my cheni’s at all
maybe i just have to wait for them to grow a bit more

[Jim Powers]

Have you checked this out?
http://www.loaches.com/articles/sexing- ... yzon-cheni

[fifi]

Have you checked this out?
http://www.loaches.com/articles/sexing- ... yzon-cheni

..looking at it now, thank you Jim

[Martin Thoene]

Thanks Jim, you beat me to it

Martin.

[Jim Powers]

Only because I got here first.