help sexing a jack dempsey

[mitch4ya]

Looks like a male to me.

 

[davidefc]

very nice jd what ever the gender is i have 2 juvies what i got yesterday they are quite colourful

 

[carolinafishkeeper]

male because males usally have more red in their dorsal fins, and the green on the gill plate!








alright what is with you BIGgourami on all of the threads you post on. you say two posts in a row and the second one usually isnt really needed to be said. they are both within a minute sometimes the same minute! just edit it!

thats a pretty sad thing to do just for a post count. so could you please stop!

if BG wants to be a post whore let him oh yeah i think the JD is a male, i believe females have gills covered with more blotches than the males do sorry the pics are not good but bottom fish in pic#1 is a male and the other is female

 

[captainawesome]

looks like my male

 

[Headrush]

I would say male. The biggest giveaway with a Jack Dempsey is the gill plate. The males will have less blue spotting on the lower portion of the plate. The females tend to have a lot of blue spotting on the lower portion of the gill plate. It may even be so heavily spotted so as to look solid blue.

That said, the only 100% positive way to tell is to vent the fish.

I agree. My female has spots all over the bottom half of her gill plate too. And her body isn't colored up much yet either. She's 5 1/2" now but starting to color up on the sides. Yours has much more color on its sides.


Beautiful fish! Looks like you take great care of her!

 

[jordanlewis100]

i would say a male but i had one once that looked like that and it turned out to be female!!! nice fish anyhow