Jaguar cichlid sex/potential names?

[Cichlids-r-beasts]

duanes have you had any male jags with this coloration? My male had dark brown spots in the lower half of the face. I never saw him lose the dark spotting under the lower half of the body.

To be fair the spotting is there, but barely visible, when he darkens up it’s more visible.
I will say I’ve never seen a jag with this coloration. Are you saying he’s the “H” word?
Lol on a serious note, maybe he’s just not darkened up due to the sunlight hitting that part of the tank, and the hideous substrate.

 

[Rocksor]

To be fair the spotting is there, but barely visible, when he darkens up it’s more visible.
I will say I’ve never seen a jag with this coloration. Are you saying he’s the “H” word?
Lol on a serious note, maybe he’s just not darkened up due to the sunlight hitting that part of the tank, and the hideous substrate.

Well that's the thing, the spotting actually looks yellowish. If it turns out to be a she, then she can still keep the name Cheetah (a la Wonder Woman's nemesis)

 

[Cichlids-r-beasts]

Well that's the thing, the spotting actually looks yellowish. If it turns out to be a she, then she can still keep the name Cheetah (a la Wonder Woman's nemesis)

Oh no I’ve vented and I’m pretty sure it’s a male. I’ll see if I can get some pictures of the vent. Hasn’t laid eggs, has some pretty bad attitude and is already going after my hand/python during water changes. About the spotting being yellowish, I believe that’s due to the editing, here’s an unedited picture



Edit: I believe if you zoom in you can see, but I’ll try to find better pictures.

 

[Rocksor]

Here's when my 5-6" TL confirmed male jag (tried to fertilize female festae eggs when he got to around 10")



When he was pushing 10" TL

 

[Cichlids-r-beasts]

Here's when my 5-6" TL confirmed male jag (tried to fertilize female festae eggs when he got to around 10")

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When he was pushing 10" TL

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Gorgeous male. I’ll have to wait and see then. I am planning on putting him with my female, who’s laid eggs a couple times in a 125 and seeing how that works out. Deppending on how they’re acting and if it’s successful, by then I’ll know for sure if he’s a confirmed male.

 

[duanes]

duanes have you had any male jags with this coloration? My male had dark brown spots in the lower half of the face. I never saw him lose the dark spotting under the lower half of the body.

When mine would spawn, there were always a number of color variations within the same spawn, although most looked "normal" some were noticeably darker, some much lighter, even some without almost any spots at all.
I believe it is natures way of allowing the species to continue in the event topography somehow changed, due to some natura/cataclysmic event.
At the time, I used most none spotted ones as feeders (although I did curiously grow a couple out), but I found them too generic looking, for my taste, a simply nondescript Parachromis), but now I see this type being are being line bred, and touted or dubbed as "golden jags".

 

[Cichlids-r-beasts]

Best I could do.

 

[Cichlids-r-beasts]

Added the sand but doesn’t seem like he (or she?) has darkened up, which I figured, since he/she only does that when stressed.