Issa is indeed a male, like I thought. It's not acutally a black dot, as it is more like a curved thin black line under each eye which trails on the underside of his head and back toward the rest of his body.

I took those pictures 2 weeks after he'd shed. I got several comments on the order of "nice looking ball". I did get asked if he had just shed, and if he was always this bright. It's been 3 weeks since he's shed now. Somebody else said he'd make some really nice looking babies with a female pastel. What do you guys think of that?