Can you sex this Jag? Photo inside...

[terd ferguson]

Like the title says, fish is about 6"...

Thanks in advance.

 

[---XR---]

looks like a mota to me

 

[---XR---]

why am i saying looks like, let me reiterate- It IS a Mota

 

[---XR---]

would you like the sex of your mota?, or do you know how to sex them

 

[Mad About Cichlids]

I'm no expert but that's either or male Mota or Freddi

 

[---XR---]

where did you get the fish.

commonly in lfs's they mislable there fish, many times freddy's are accually loiselli's, and so on, i'm guessing in your case somebody mislabled this fish and you were lead to believe it was a jaguar.

 

[terd ferguson]

I think the lighting is playing tricks on your eyes. Let me try to get another shot...

 

[---XR---]

i'm not so sure if that would help, i'm seeing a light shade of red on the gill plates, some light stipeing and common mota marks. it would be a very interesting lighting setup to pull that off.

 

[terd ferguson]

where did you get the fish.

commonly in lfs's they mislable there fish, many times freddy's are accually loiselli's, and so on, i'm guessing in your case somebody mislabled this fish and you were lead to believe it was a jaguar.

I told the owner of the store I wanted a managuense, jaguar. He ordered three from a big time distrbuter in Atlanta (the one he always gets fish from, I haven't seen too many mislabled and when they are it's a "common name" type of mistake). I have no reason to doubt it's a jag.

Let me get some more shots...

 

[---XR---]

well i have to definetly doubt it. if by any consevable chance it was a jaguar though, and all the tell tale mota signs were wrong it would be a female jaguar, no male on earth could look like that, and mabey .2% of females would exibet those colors.