Thanks for the input. The thing i have noticed about my fish is that the female and fry have broken barring. THey dont have a solid horizontal bar like the male does. The female and fry are capable of having that solid bar but usually display a broken one more often. I very rarely see a solid bar on her or fry. I have looked at tons of pics of red empress and their fry and they seem to have a slightly longer solid bar and most pics i have seen it is not broken up at all. Thats why i think the female might be some other species. My male is always with a solid bar, even when a juvie he always had solid bar. I suspect the male is likely a full red empress but his female i believe might be either a different species or maybe a hybrid. I leaning towards different species because for the many spawns they have done all the fry look exactly the same, i have never had any fry that look even slightly different, (they have produced about 200 fry at least). I think if she were a hybrid she would have produced at least a couple normal looking red empress fry...
