Festae / red terror. Male or female?
- Thread starter Richcichlid
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Looks male to me. Although its a bit young to be sure.
Males tend to have lots of blue spangling in the dorsal, anal and caudal fins, females don't.
Above left a pair female in the foreground, middle shot, note the males spangling in the background, compared to the female in the fore ground, the 3rd shot is a female.
Below left 2 females, .........Middle shot, note the spangling in te larger male compared to the female, 3rd shot male on the right.
Males tend to have lots of blue spangling in the dorsal, anal and caudal fins, females don't.
Above left a pair female in the foreground, middle shot, note the males spangling in the background, compared to the female in the fore ground, the 3rd shot is a female.
Below left 2 females, .........Middle shot, note the spangling in te larger male compared to the female, 3rd shot male on the right.
I’ve seen this post multiple times now and it worries me! I have four festae. And every single one of them has spangles on their fins at least. I have a dominant and a subdominat male for sure. But worried the other two are gonna be boys as well
I believe juvenile festae females can have spangles? Soo far I’ve learned females have a Y shape line, females tend to be smaller, less aggressive, more red in colour, I think my male had green on his face, and the front of a females dorsal fin goes black… still very hard to tell until they’re adults.
