Well i went to my local fish store and i got these for 8 bucks for both of them what do u think. I think that the one that has less color but more blue dots on them are the male let me know if i am wrong.
jewel cichlids
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I got a few of these last year at our local auction... the males grew noticably larger than the females and the males also developed a nice hump on their head (nice for their smaller size at least).
Mine make great 'dithers' for my SA/CA Cichlids. They are also fairly eager to breed. They rarely breed as the smaller species in a community set up, but all I have to do is isolate any male and any female for two weeks and I have fry.
The Red Jewels and Blue Jewels are actually different speceies. Pet Store variety are often hybrids of the two. I'm not fluent enough with them to know if yours are true or hybrids.
Mine make great 'dithers' for my SA/CA Cichlids. They are also fairly eager to breed. They rarely breed as the smaller species in a community set up, but all I have to do is isolate any male and any female for two weeks and I have fry.
The Red Jewels and Blue Jewels are actually different speceies. Pet Store variety are often hybrids of the two. I'm not fluent enough with them to know if yours are true or hybrids.
I had some petsmart truq jewels that bred for me a few years ago. I had two pairs form from 6 total. They sure do lay a lot of eggs. I had over 500 fries. I grew them all to 2 inches and sold them to the LFS. The turqs look quite nice. IMO, better color than the red ones during non-breeding times. Reds look amazing during breeding. Goodluck with yours.