What kind of flowerhorn is this baby?

[samahabou]

I recently got this baby flowerhorn but I'm wondering what kind is it I try to look it up it look like pearl fh as its the most common flowerhorn here in usa any idea and how to determine if its a male or a female sorry for the pic is not to clear i try my best ☺

 

[ishvindersingh9]

Its a male as it seems and its red dragon

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[Freakgecko91]

Its a male as it seems and its red dragon

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How do you figure it's a male?


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[PassengerTN]

Looks like Zz to me, if I had to guess sex I would say female based on black spot on dorsal which usually like 75% chance of being correct.

Jesse

 

[ishvindersingh9]

Ya could.be female havent.noticed but

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[ishvindersingh9]

females have stripes on body nvm

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[Freakgecko91]

females have stripes on body nvm

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I've never heard of strips being a sexable trait in FH's...dorsal spot yes, but not stripes


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[ishvindersingh9]

Ok

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[samahabou]

Well he/she won't eat pellets for some reason but eat flakes and won't eat shrimp either it's weird

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[RedDevil83]

Try blood worms my wife's friend has a fh similar to that but it's a male because of the hump forming round instead of a slopped hump like females have. They usually go crazy for it. Or try and not feed for a couple days .

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[LayzorBeams]

Try blood worms my wife's friend has a fh similar to that but it's a male because of the hump forming round instead of a slopped hump like females have. They usually go crazy for it. Or try and not feed for a couple days .

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Females can have nuchal humps too. It seems to occur especially often in the Amphilophus genus, at least from what i can tell... And pretty much all FH have some RD or Midas in them, as well as a lot of Trimac or Synspilum.


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