ID: Male of Female?

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After closer inspection, and comparing better pictures I found, it is in fact a female, you guys win, I lose....still no idea why she is so big..and aggressive...and killed a male convict?

As mentioned before... my father's is very aggressive. She harasses his Managuense nearly non-stop. So did her partner (he became food).
Shes fairly big, probably around the same size I guess... hard to tell.
 
My female was a little b, even at 1.5" Would try and spawn with my Blue Acara, and beat the crap out of everything else 2-3x her size.
 
Very much a female - and males will have an even longer set of trailers. And yes, females can be super aggressive. They are CONVICTS after all :)
 
Like said early in the thread, take pics with the fish in the water. I would almost bet money that its not a Con but an HRP female, or cross.
 
I found a website (wetwebmedia.com) that you can email and a very experienced guy emails you back (marine biologist, answers questions about the hobby daily, etc) I asked if the orange specks determine sex, and he firmly said no, "Look at the genital papillae; on males, this is longer and more pointed.
Females don't tend to be aggressive, but I'm sure it happens." basically the only 100% way to sex a convict is using this method, and this convict has a pointy papilla, I still think it is a male.

LOL, I was reading this post and I was thinking sounds like at least a dozen guys I can think of on MFK. You should have more faith in us. ;)
 
female convicts can get that large no problem, just takes them a bit longer, the orange on the belly is really pretty much the easiest way to sex them 98% of the time. its quite rare for males to get the orange, especially that much, usually the males that do have orange just have a couple of specs and not an entire patch like that. and with most cichlids IMO the aggression level has more to do with the individual fish's personality/presence of a mate and or competition than it does just the gender
 
Like said early in the thread, take pics with the fish in the water. I would almost bet money that its not a Con but an HRP female, or cross.

I don't think she is a full HRP, maybe a cross because she does have really blue fins, and a blue underside, but usually she is so dark and aggressive that you can't even see it haha. She is so mean!



LOL, I was reading this post and I was thinking sounds like at least a dozen guys I can think of on MFK. You should have more faith in us. ;)

It never hurts to get a second opinion! I do trust many members on here, but at the same time there might be some that don't know what they are talking about, so eh, why not get the second opinion.
 
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