Help sexing q Red Terror! Thank you!

[Roger Mcfish]

I think Duane meant the spots are never dominant on the females, as they are on the males. He didn’t mean their behavior

Out of my group of 10. There was 4 males and 6 females. 3 of the females had slight spotting on the rear fin where as the males rear fins were covered with speckling.
It may have to do with catch location as well.

I see what you are saying. Never know with how duanes puts words together lol. I read it as females aren't dominant like males when he was comparing to the speckling lol. My bad

 

[Roger Mcfish]

Yes
I was ¨not¨ talking about total growth in size, of the fish theselves,
I was talikng about metalic spot distribution on the unpaired fins, and body,.
As shown in all female photos above,
the males are neavy with matalic spotting, while all females have very few.

And as shown in the post, just 2 posts above, the female is almost devoid of iredescent spots on dorsal, anal and caudal fins.

I was going accordingly off the comment where you mentioned females may sport a few spotting but NEVER dominant like males read it wrong lol

 

[HUKIT]

I was going accordingly off the comment where you mentioned females may sport a few spotting but NEVER dominant like males read it wrong lol

Me too, but in my defense I went to public schools in the Midwest. There are zero spelling bee trophies in my house.

 

[Roger Mcfish]

Me too, but in my defense I went to public schools in the Midwest. There are zero spelling bee trophies in my house.

From NYC, go figure for me