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The back fin if it has red trailers at the top and bottom then it's a male. Also the females have the red tummys. Maybe someone else can explain better?
None of these are reliable ways to sex this species IMO. I've been keeping Bolivians for almost 10 years and I still don't trust myself to sex them reliably.