Large Spot or Small Spot?

Can anyone please advise whether this would be considered a large spot, or small spot? Juvenile fish, approx. 4" TL, I'm guessing male for a number of reasons, but could be wrong. Washed out color is due to camera flash.

Thanks for any insight!

Thanks. So in your opinion would it be safe to say it is not Paratilapia sp. East Coast? I might be able to track down the original breeder/source, but not positive as they were purchased at a local fish club auction.

I agree, which is what was throwing me off, the spots are kind of in between, not large, but not small, and not enough of them to be sp. East Coast. This fish is flying solo and I have no plans on breeding it, I was just curious as to the sp. Thanks for the input.

Ironically I have only ever seen sp. "small spot" sold in this area, so it will be interesting to see if I can track down the original breeder, and if they can trace these fish back to a specific collection location. Otherwise I agree, aquarium strain would be the most accurate. Thanks for the input Duane.

Madagascar Oscars, that's hilarious! Were they "small spot"?

In the early 90's Laif DeMason from Old World Exotics was breeding the "small spot" (I believe the East Coast variant) and Pablo Tepoot from New Life Exotic Fish was breeding the "large spot", which appeared to possibly be the sp. Andapa. Back then they were referred to as Paratilapia Magna (large spot) and Paratilapia Minutus. (small spot)

New Life won a first place at the Florida Tropical Fish Farm Association show in 93, and his polleni was chosen for the cover of the June 93 FAMA magazine. (shown below) The same fish from New Life went on to win both a first place award, and Best in Show in 1994. It caused quite the stink with Laif as he felt at the time he was the original importer/breeder of "polleni" from Madagascar, but unlike Pablo he didn't realize (or wouldn't admit) that New Life's polleni were a completely different variant/species.