Sexing nuger triggerfish

[sackles]

Afternoon all,

Just wondering if anyone knows how to tell the male and female niger triggerfish apart?

 

[i cant think]

Afternoon all,

Just wondering if anyone knows how to tell the male and female niger triggerfish apart?

I don’t believe this species is sexually dimorphic unlike the ones from the Xanthrichthys genus.

 

[lion king]

The males will have streamers on their tail, if I'm not mistaken it appears streamers are forming and that would be a male. It will become more apparent at about 4", smaller may not indicate.