male or female? please help

[frazier71]

Can someone please tell me if this dragon scale is a male or female? I bought It from petsmart last night and the container just said dragon scale. The fish itself is really tiny like 1 inch big

[Silverfang]

I'm afraid it will be hard to tell from those pictures. IF you could get one of him/her flaring it would help. A female will have an eggspot (white dot on their belly), but sometimes young males can have this too.

Gorgeous colouring either way!

[registereduser]

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[registereduser]

looks like a male to me, long ventrals

[frazier71]

thank you! I hope its a boy

[frazier71]

Ill post more pictures of him later if it helps more

[frazier71]

Is there any definite way to know. The face kind of looks like a girl to Me. I don't see an egg spot would I have to look very close for it?

[MrVampire181]

It's a boy, trust me.

[frazier71]

I trust you lol I take your advice on almost everything. If you don't mind me asking how do you know? I just want to Learn it

[MrVampire181]

All I had to do was look lol. I'm very good at telling bettas gender early on. A few weeks earlier than most.

His body is longer and not very wide, the ventrals are long and his gill plates are bigger and thicker than what would be on a female.