Sexing Johanni Cichlids

[trawyn]

I have one Johanni Cichlid, but can't seem to find out what the difference in males and females are. If anyone knows how to tell the difference, please respond.

 

[fishydude22]

dominant males are jet black with blue and white stripes, females are yellow

 

[trawyn]

Thanks

Thank you...If that is the case, I have a male...are the females hard to find? I am not aware of having ever seen one.

 

[muadib1158]

I actually tried to set up a species tank with johannis recently. When I talked to the owner of my favorite LFS, he told me that breeders will mess with water params when a female is holding a clutch. The end result is that the ratio of M:F is 75:25 or even higher. Thus it is really difficult to find females in the store.

 

[Jay]

Yes.

Females do tend to be hard to find around here as well. I was lucky to get one of a fellow I know.

 

[Desi]

well this seems to be a really old thread but nonetheless I seem to have gotten contradicting information from my lfs manager. He told me the males have eggspots on them whereas the females don't (or only have one tiny eggspot; not sure). Color is irrelevant and is only a morph of the johanni.

I can't confirm this information %100 as it is largely based on what the store manager had to say; all my google searches turn out either forum commentaries or poor sites with poor information. Anyone here who is familiar with breeding johannis; I'd appreciate your clarifications.

 

[IncarnateStorm]

In my experience and from what i have research females are usuallly yellow, although some adult domanant females or females that are holding can take on male colouration.

http://users.kent.net/~lisab/Mjohanni.html