Can anyone help sex my flowerhorn?

[Magnus_Bane]

Daam she’s a beast, he claims that this is the same fish which I highly doubt View attachment 1434481

Lol honestly that pic is so dark all I can make out is just this bare outline of a FH. It doesn't look like it's got too much of a kok either from the looks of it. She's a similar shape to the original female I had when I still bred FH's, a.k.a. Big Bertha's and Star's mother. But yeah she is a beast that is for sure, she's pushing about 9in atm and hates other fish unlike her lil sister.

Btw this here was the father of both of my 2 girls, you can see where Big Bertha gets her Gene's from but her lil sister was the odd ball of the whole batch, I'll attach a pic of both for ya to see.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

Oh btw I forgot to mention but kok size can change drastically as a FH goes through it's growth spurts. I've had mine grow and shrink as the body gets larger. Usually it stabilizes at roughly 5-6in, or at maturity.

 

[ryanmussio]

Oh btw I forgot to mention but kok size can change drastically as a FH goes through it's growth spurts. I've had mine grow and shrink as the body gets larger. Usually it stabilizes at roughly 5-6in, or at maturity.

Daaam man thanks for the info all your fishes are sickkkk! I really want a female with kok one day, still going to try with this one I have right now.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

Daaam man thanks for the info all your fishes are sickkkk! I really want a female with kok one day, still going to try with this one I have right now.

Lol wish I still had the male but he past away shortly after having his first and only batch of fry. I grew him up from a ¼in baby that was covered in ich at Petco and just happened to hit the jack pot with him. He sadly past away due to a swim bladder infection. Atm I'm working on getting Star to gain a bit more red coloration in her and trying to find a nice male Red Texas, FH or Carpinitus for her to breed with. Still not a 100% on whether I should breed for more red color or better pearling. Speaking of pearling though, if ya look closely at her you'll notice these lil orange pearls which I think would be neat to try and breed more of that into the next line. Never seen a FH with orange pearls before her, so who knows maybe I'll even be able to make a FH some day with only orange pearls.

 

[ryanmussio]

Lol wish I still had the male but he past away shortly after having his first and only batch of fry. I grew him up from a ¼in baby that was covered in ich at Petco and just happened to hit the jack pot with him. He sadly past away due to a swim bladder infection. Atm I'm working on getting Star to gain a bit more red coloration in her and trying to find a nice male Red Texas, FH or Carpinitus for her to breed with. Still not a 100% on whether I should breed for more red color or better pearling. Speaking of pearling though, if ya look closely at her you'll notice these lil orange pearls which I think would be neat to try and breed more of that into the next line. Never seen a FH with orange pearls before her, so who knows maybe I'll even be able to make a FH some day with only orange pearls.

That’ll be sick, I’ll breed for more pearls first and then you can go for color .