Male Or Female Jack Dempsey

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ive a female w green lips

That EBJD is most likely a male as females rarely survive. 9.5 out of 10 EBJD's are males. It's very common to only get male EBJD's in a fry as females die out soon after hatched. I've raised more than 10 EBJD fryes. And again, your regular JD is a male. Males present that line around the gillsand those dots around the eye are more visible. Also the female doesn't have speckles along the whole body like that and rarely have green lips, that's a very dominant male presenting very nice coloration, a good pick! That JD looks exactly like the male JD I currently have. People might think it's a female because it also presents a few blue spots on its cheeks but on females those spots fuse together and are predominantly blue, males can have blue and greenish spots or none at all.
 
The regular JD Looks like female. Lots of blue around the gill plate. As for the EBJD theres no way to tell until they drop they're tubes.
 
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