Help sexing these young sajica

[sevs and sajicas for me]

Anyone want to hazard a guess if any of these are female? Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics. I figure the first one is pretty obviously male.

 

[Jason_S]

Looks like male in pics 1 through 4 and female in the rest

 

[sevs and sajicas for me]

I was hoping that. Got the male in 1 with pics 5 through the rest. 2, 3, and 4 are in a tank by themselves

 

[Jason_S]

Easiest way to tell as far as I know is the dorsal and anal fins. If theyre reddish/blue then male. If theyre yellow with black tips then female.

 

[Jason_S]

Oh and now ima need you to breed them and send me some.

 

[sevs and sajicas for me]

Yeah that's what I've been told as well but I'm color blind a bit so I'm never certain when it comes to colors. I also have them all on a dark and and background so they are staying dark and the yellow isn't coming out as fast as the red

 

[duanes]

The females have a dark area that continues from the mid bar into the dorsal, and a less steep profile.

 

[sevs and sajicas for me]

Thanks duanes . Does the differentiation in the dorsal show itself fairly early?

 

[duanes]

I could see it in my female at only about 2". Her colors were also always brighter, or more intense. The pics below are of 2 females. But the dominant one killed the other, as did the dominant male killed his counterpart.

 

[sevs and sajicas for me]

Yeah. Unfortunately mine I think are still a little young to tell definitively (OP). Though the largest one is obviously a male. The next 3 I thought were originally male (pics 2-4) but one seems to have more black area in the dorsal so it may be female as well. The smaller ones (pics 5-8) I think are still too young to tell. They are all around 1.5 inches probably.