Male or Female ?

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Port Moody B.C. Canada
I want to know for sure because I would like to try and breed it.

It was listed as a regular ZZ when I got it, it was under 2 inches now it is about 10 inches nose to tail .

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Female, You need a real big male or else he will not make it.
 
Yes When I picked it out of all the fry it was the biggest, meanest and most colorful so I had hoped for a nice male, but I got a nasty mean ****** like my old lady.

I was think about trying her out with a nice big male midas as she slaughtered all the fish in the 125 she was in with previously.
 
Why is everyone so sure it's a female without a vent shot or an obvious egg tube dropped? I'm not saying it isn't I'm just courious as to what makes everyone think it's a female. You can't rely on body shape, fins (dark spot on dorsal or length of trailers) or lack of nauchal hump, so other than venting I can't tell from that pic what it is, I've seen pleanty of cross dressers that fooled everyone.
 
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