Is this Obliquiden male or female

Here is one when its agitated... It just got done chasing off a smaller fish that wanted to lip lock.. Still no color display at all though... The smaller one is a male nyererei (i think) and it shows vibrant colors at times and at other times is pretty muted. Is it possoble it just wont show any color at all even if its a male?

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I think something is a little off with your zebra obliquidens. Looking at my own fish as well as many pictures on the internet, there isn't usually prominent red trim on the dorsal, nor typically red spotting on the caudal fin. And the black bars continue up into the dorsal fin. I would strongly suspect hybrid ( though I am not 100% certain)....or maybe it was hormoned?

jimmyjam923 said:

LFS told me any color on the fins means its a male and just hasnt colored up yet.

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I think that is true of a lot of Victorean-types, but really doesn't apply at all to Astatotilapia latifasciata. Zebra obliquidens would be sort of an exception in this regard, because it really doesn't have a lot of color on most of it's fins, except the anal fin, the males get red color. The bright color is on the body. Males get red around the mid body and red on the anal fin, but not usually bright colors on the other fins, just black markings.
I've got them in 4 tanks. All the males color up regardless of tank mates. I've got 7 young 8 month old males in my 90 gal. all male tank. Even at this age, they all have bright red on there bellies, bright red on the caudal fin, and no color on the other fins other then black markings. There young and bottom of the pecking order in what i would describe as a very rough tank (no females in the tank). And IME, even females zebra obliquidenswill show a lot of bright yellow and have prominent black barring, especially when no male of their species is in the tank ( or also if the female is higher up in their own species pecking order).