Stress vs. breeding stripes?

[aemaki09]

I always get stress and breeding stripes confused...not sure why, stress are horizontal and breeding are vertical right?

If I'm wrong can someone please post a pic or two of which is what and how you remember it?

[sainthogan]

correct. If you look at my avatar pic and the pix in my album, you can see my fish has breeding stripes.

[aemaki09]

Thank you!

I am planning to breed but the pair I had originally planned on wasnt working out, wanted to try the female I'm talking about in this post but I wanted to make sure that she wasn't stressed (most of my other females are light in color so you can't see any stripes on them).