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You can only tell dureing there mateing season

I'm not sure when that is

but I know that dureing that time the males will have little pimple looking things on there gills

girls wont

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It is difficult to tell the gender of goldfish. A few things to look for is that males will develop what look like white pimples on their gills and females will develop a bigger body as they begin to produce eggs.

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