Obviously male. That is how the intensity of color works... the more dominant males show the best color, the lower rung males show less color. Nothing you can do about this nature, this is normal. If you have a few species and have females for each, the male may color up more to court his species females.
The fish is a "Red Peacock". You can't really say he has an exact species, these fish tend to be vague and they don't care if they are pure.