Male or Female?

[jhook]

Hello, I am posting this from my phone, so please excuse any errors. I tried to post earlier and my demon phone sent it to the pike section for some reason.
Anyway, I picked this fish up yesterday and would like to know if it is a male or female. Thanks in advance.

 

[Circa4190]

Hard to say right now, but if I had to guess...I would tentatively say female. There is next to zero KOK development. My FH showed signs of the nuchal hump very early on.

 

[jhook]

Thanks for answering. She's definitely got tons of personality already, that's for sure!

 

[Dainbramage]

Yeah too young to tell sex

 

[jhook]

Ok, thanks. I'll wait until it gets a little bigger and ask again in a few weeks.

 

[Tomt37]

Looks like there is the start of bars on the dorsal so I'd say female too

 

[Alexxxxsv14]

Too early to tell but I think male short body fh
I feel if it was female It would already have a solid blotch on the dorsal

 

[Tomt37]

I can see them .. ish but it's only 80% accurate way of sexing

 

[jhook]

So, the dorsal markings are a pretty good way to determine sex in Flowerhorns? I do see them starting to come out now that the fish is settling in. I assume that means an 80% chance that it's a female?

 

[Tomt37]

Female Flowerhorns have an 80% likelihood of having dorsal fin bar markings ... males don't have them .. there are 20% of females who will show no barring so it's only one method ... as the dorsal fin bars are secondary sexual characteristics they also tend to show a little after some of the usual marks have appeared .. but if your fh has them she's female