Please sex my Dovii

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SaltyPlum

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Hi MFK members,
I just joined up to this forum and I have about 5yrs of experience in this hobby.
I live in Australia and I love American cichlids the best. I have always wanted just a single male Dovii. But due to where I live, and due to the high demand of African cichlids with all the LFS in town, I could only pick and choose with what I liked with whatever Americans they could get in at the time. A new LFS opened up and I couldn't believe my eyes when I noticed a tank full of juvenile Dovii's. Luckily I had just recently stocked my tank with a tad bigger flowerhorn and JD (both males), so of course i had to get one. It took me about 40min to study them with what I have read when sexing Dovii's and the shop manager even let me net my own fish. Its been a couple months now and he/she is around 3-4 inches.
Can anyone on this forum please pass on their opinion?

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Pending for how much they go for where you are. best chances to get a male are to get more then 1. like 4-5.
there is another thread that has a good reference. Males get spotting all over there body and gill plate. females have none. 2-3yrs back i had like 20 of them. ended up with only 4. dominant male(which i still have to this day).other 2 could not tell(too small) and a female. Sold them off
 
Thanks for responding mate. Average price for dovii's start from $35 depending the size (bigger they are the pricer they get) I can drive to sydney which is 4hrs away and get a big male for around the $100-200 mark. But due to me at the time restocking my tank i could only go with one that was equal size to my other fish. Plus I prefer to raise fish from when they are young. Going off what i researched when looking for a male I chose the one that had heaps more blue than yellow, the one I chose wasnt the biggest but it really stood out in colour to the rest, and fins were more pointed, plus had spots in its tail and top fin, the lighting in the photo doesnt do it any justice but if you get it in the right light it has a lot of blue and green colour and its horizontal line is always broken and faded.

With your experience keeping dovii's and due to its current size at the moment, what would you base its gender on?

With the experience that you have had with dovii's what would be your
 
Sorry for that last little add on im the last post lol was distracted for a moment and loss track off what I was writing.
 
Really - i would of though by 7-8" you would be able to tell by now. Any chance you can post a pic of your dovii?

Usally i can tell with most American cichlids what sex they would be around the 3" mark, but this little dovii always has me guessing. I hope it is a male. It would be one of my favorite in the tank and when i hold my 6month old daughter to the tank he is the only fish that will come up to her and not be so skittish!
 
MyGiants said:
I'm leaning toward female with this one. But I had one before I thought was a female turned out to be a male. I don't think I can get a good picture in the tank its in right now.
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MyGiants - are you suggesting my dovii is female, or your 7-8" dovii??
 
The male in this vid when I first got it at around 5" I thought it was a female. Later as it got bigger it became more apparent it was a male. I was able to find a female easy cause a LFS had gotten a bunch of large dovii's in all 6-7" and they were pairing off in the tank. The females were easy to tell cause they showed so much yellow coloring. When the fish is by itself its harder to tell. If you have 4-5 of them in a tank together males will color up and females will show more yellow.

 
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