My Polleni...Male or Female?

[Bderick67]

I got this polleni yesterday, seems there isn't alot of info on the web. Hoping I could get some here. What are the male/female charactoristics of polleni.

Pic of mine, if I were to guess, it's male. At least I got a 50/50 chance of being right

 

[Bderick67]

Anybody? I got to name the poor fish

 

[ciclasoman]

Seems to me you've got a male. With Paratilapia and most other Malagasy cichlids sexual dimorphism is not apparent until the fish is fairly older (except for Paretroplus in which case you're out of luck- males and females look identical). In Paratilapia the male is usually more slender, has nuchal hump or beginings of, longer dorsal fins and overall is much larger- up to 2-3X as large as a similarly-aged female.
Good luck with your boy.

 

[Bderick67]

Thanks C-man

 

[Renteria]

im glad he is doing good with you. nice pics too. :]

 

[SMS]

I like those polleni. Are they aggressive, would they go witt dempseys, green terrors and friedrichstahls?

 

[ciclasoman]

They can certainly hold their own against large central and south american cichlids. However, adult males will be very aggressive with other polleni.

 

[adobongrabbit]

awesome!looks great!

 

[ESJBond007]

sweet looking fish

 

[Opiate]

cool polleni! i wanna get 1 now.. hehe