Anyone seen a female Dovii like this?

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Mudfrog

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This is my 6.5 - 7" Female Dovii, it's very colorful for a female and pretty aggressive too. Lately it's started thrashing the fake plants that I have in my tank. It seems to like them floating at the top as opposed to anchored in the gravel.

Anyway, in the past few weeks it has really started getting a gold / bronze tint to it's body. In person the body looks more gold but the bronze color really comes out in pics. It's always had a blue tint to it's face but the camera flash drowns out the blue and shows only green in the picture. I've seen a couple females with the blue on it's face but has anyone seen one with the gold and bronze body like this?

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Up until 2 months ago I thought it was a male but it does not have any spots above the line, and I also vented it and most people thought it was a female. That and the body is more rounded and thick led me to conclude it's female.
 
It no longer has any spots though.. I was told on another forum that it looks nicaragan but I looked at some pics and they don't seem to have that deep bronze look either, I haven't seen any dovii with that look actually.
 
If it is a female...I will paypal you 1$.......
 
Mudfrog;1402691; said:
lol.. problem is I'll probably never know for sure..






Sure you will....post pics of the vent....
 
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