Male or female Kenyi?

[Joostrom]

I can't tell if it is male or female it's yellow some days and other days its yellow with blue stripes?

 

[garfy]

Without doubt its a male.

 

[Wyomingite]

Without doubt its a male.

Yup!

WYite

 

[Joostrom]

I was told by my LFS that the males where blue and females where yellow

 

[Jess1ca]

I was told by my LFS that the males where blue and females where yellow

Other way around

 

[Wyomingite]

As a general rule of thumb, mbuna that show different colors between sexes have males that tend toward blues and blacks as the base color and females that tend toward yellow tones as the base color. However, some species do not show any color difference between sexes and others have plain gray females and males that gain color as they mature, so that often quoted "rule of thumb" is hardly accurate. Kenyi are totally opposite of the "rule". All kenyi start out striped blue and females stay blue into maturity, while dominant males turn yellow.

WYite

 

[Malawi Freak]

Other way around

Correct.


Some females can show male colorations. But that's a male.

 

[Redrider]

The males dorsal fin comes to a point, where the female is more rounded, the male has a egg spot on fin under tail, mine mated with a new female within minutes of introducing her, the male shakes his egg spot in front of the female while she is trying to pick up eggs and he fertilizes the eggs in her mouth, here is a pic of yellow male and blue female.

 

[Joostrom]

Thanks guys great info

 

[Malawi Freak]

You can't go by fins too much anymore. The only true way to sex is to vent.