Midas: Male or female ?

[MoMoMo]

Hi !!

I'd want to know your advices about this fish ! This Midas is with three other one and two giant goramys in my 200 gallons tank !

Thanks for your answers !!

Mo from Reunion Island !

 

[south15]

looks male

 

[Yellow_Perch]

im not an expert exactly and wait to more people can confirm my answer but if im right males have a hump (nuchal hump)..or they both got a hump but males got bigger ones im certain..but like i said wait for confirmation..

 

[danny2875]

Males and female both display nuchal humps. The males are more prominent. By the looks of the mouth,it looks more like a labiatus. Where did u get this fish from? If from an LFS, more than likely to be a devil/midas cross.

 

[jiant2520]

I'll go with male, but he should be easy to vent at this point.

 

[KickAssLardNinja]

MALE?

 

[Mad About Cichlids]

MALE?

+1

 

[MoMoMo]

Males and female both display nuchal humps. The males are more prominent. By the looks of the mouth,it looks more like a labiatus. Where did u get this fish from? If from an LFS, more than likely to be a devil/midas cross.

I think it's a cross too because my 4 fishes are from the same parents ( a man reproduced them since many years ) but they look different !! I remember the big female i saw in the reproduction tank looked like a labiatus whereas the male looked more like a midas.

I wanted to post some photos to show you the difference between my four fishes ( i have two males who have big humps and one of them looked more like a labiatus than his brother ) but i can't upload ...

 

[danny2875]

Here is my male midas from Rapps. He is about 6.5in.

 

[danny2875]

If you look from overhead of the fish, the midas mouth will be more like a upside down U and the labiatus will look like an upside down V. Also usually the labiatus will have larger lips but thats more with the wild caught ones.