Genders of Black Skirt Tetras.

Fishfriend1

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Anyone know how to find the gender of Black Skirt Tetras? I have 4-5, and i would like to know what their sexes are. Plz help by telling me how to figure that out.
 
The female's anal fin is narrower and runs parallel with its second vertical line. She also tends to have a rounder belly and normally grows bigger than the male.
 
Hmm, does the blackness of the fins have anything to do with it?
 
The darker the more comfortable the fish, but I don't think it has much to do with gender.

HIP HIP HORAY! (unrelated to gender) my fish are doing great, they have very dark fins.

So, the bigger ones are female(bigger size and bellies), they get full sized around 2-2 1/2 inches long... i think i may have 3-4 females and at least 1 male (or just a runt/younger one). Most of them are about 2 inch long, from tip of head to tail, and then a smaller one thats around 1 1/2 in long. Ill get some pics of them all later today when i get home.
 
I had 15 or so, they were all 1.5 to 2in long, had one tiny Skirt, 1in but boy was he dark, lol. They're great hardy lil fish. I need to get some of them again...
 
NVM
 
Ok, here is a pic of them all, there are 5.

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