how do u sex a dovi
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Males have a heavier spot patter in their operculum. Females have a tendency to me lighter in color with less spangling in the operculum.
I've raised a good number of dovii spawns, and you really can't discern male from female until they reach 4 or 5 inchs : thats when the male begins to show typical cichlid finnage and starts to color-up.I no longer breed dovii , but I did keep one exceptional male that lives by himself in an 80 gallon tank ( nothing else could survive with him- he is extremely aggressive, even for a dovii) He is currently about 14 in. long and still growing. I have a good friend who raised a male dovii to over 24 in. ! On one occasion my son and his friend teased the dovi to the point that he became frustrated with just biting the glass and literally jumped out of the tank at my son and landed on the floor! Luckly he did not suffer fatal injury and was back to himself in a few days.I actually kind of crossed a nicuraugaun female with a costa rican male when I was breeding the dovii's , so that may have had something to do with the robust attitude of the resulting fry. sorry I'm so wordy, get carried away sometimes;
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