Help with sexing Apistogramma agassizi tefe

[Hague1982]

I'm struggling telling if this is a small male or a female, what do I look for?

 

[susanamck]

not the only one mate, i spent an hour starting at a tank locally hunting for a female unfortunality suppliers seam to be keeping females back for breeding!
I was orginally sold a pair only for the general suggestion to be a male pair but the youtube videos of breeding pairs match mine, however i now have a female wild in with them too.

Apparently the ventrals are smaller on a female, stomach is slightly rounder (although have to be careful with that one as some illnesses present in roundness e.g. worms or internal infection) and the lateral band is more obvious on females, but again some tank species have breed this out.

hope its ok to link to other sites, http://www.thekrib.com/Apisto/id-questionaire.html i use this an a guide

i would say female, however i am NO expert

 

[Champ_17]

I'm not sure to told because the fish is quite young and color drop.
For me the young male tefe will show silver/white dot on his tail.