Curious if male or female JD??

[nospeed411]

I have had this cutie since a wee teenie baby in fact I didn't even know for sure what kind of fish I bought!!! I bought "him" in a tank at the LFS which was labeled as "Assorted Cichlids"
He such a ham when I have the camera but the bummer is my camera takes crap pics!!!
Just curious if I have a male or female JD Thanks in advance!

 

[vaine111]

Male.

Edit... The spangling as I like to put it(circles around the gill and mouth area) will be blotched together on females where as yours has totally uninterupted spangles.

 

[nospeed411]

Hmmm....we have always called him "Jack" but lately my gut is that he is really a "Jackie" because his personality is so docile. He literally like a big rainbow trout just lazily swimming in the tank. So I am guessing males are more laid back than the females? or not necessarily?

 

[CarlosN]

My guess is male too

 

[vaine111]

From my experience with my electric blue jack dempsey and my female regular jack dempsey the female was the boss of the tank but she was breeding with him so I don't know if that played a factor.

 

[Diverite]

Male totally.

 

[nospeed411]

Ok, well Jack has picked a girlfriend who happens not to be a JD although we aren't sure what mix of parrot fish....possibly a rose queen, midas cichid or ????
Every couple of weeks they start doing their "love swim" and then before long the orange one starts moving rocks and digging a hole chasing anyone who comes near it. We now know when this "game" is soon to happen as her whole body turns this brilliant neon orange. The pic I posted is her orange mask bandit "single" look. As far as I know neither has ever spawned any eggs!

 

[sick_lid]

Hmmm....we have always called him "Jack" but lately my gut is that he is really a "Jackie" because his personality is so docile. He literally like a big rainbow trout just lazily swimming in the tank. So I am guessing males are more laid back than the females? or not necessarily?

Just depends on his tankmates. Fish is definitely a male, and if there's nothing in the tank to intimidate or stress him out, he has no reason to act otherwise..

 

[Loves severums]

cool what tank size do u have them in?

 

[nospeed411]

Snapped 2 more pics of the "couple".
Any takes on the parrot fish genetics?