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Thank you! Yes the windows are propably the cause of my algae... and much freeze dried foods. I will try to reduce the waste. I did a 70 percent water change friday, so I will do a 40 to 50 percent change wednesday I think. I hope it gets better soon...

Wow, You breed platinums and golds?!? I envy you... here in germany we don't have that much varietys of JD. In store the most of them are coloured poorly, I always pick the best coloured and strongest built ones. Thats how I found my male... I LOVE platinum jacks. They look so stunning. What...

Hey, Your JDs are really stunning! Great colour development! I have never seen a double eye spot on these fish, seems to be rare but looks very nice. My male is from a local pet store, I bought him last year and he grew pretty good. He becomes more gorgeus the bigger he gets.

hi, double spot? You mean like two spots each scale? No, mine never had this, but I do not own any blue gene/electric blue JDs... Sounds very interesting, do you have pics of that?

News: The "absolute sure female" is going male... It is always close to the second female in the tank, but she does not accept him yet. The rest of the youngsters are also males, so I will give them away soon. But this one is allowed to stay, together with "his" (hopefully his) female. This is...

Right now I am absolutely not sure about the male looking ones. The genital papilla looks more female and the sparkles on the gills don't fade... You might be right.

oh, and some pics of the two biggest youngsters... left one is female, right should be male... female close up: male close up, being around the big boy:

so, in the meantime my pair has laid eggs again... Well, at least they tried it. Most of the eggs had fungus or were unfertilized. But what I got was so stunningly beautiful that I want to share it with you: The female in its breeding dress: The female busy with placing the fry, coloured in a...

@D ram d if it can help you I have some pics of my mature pair´s genital papilla to show you what to look for exactly. The female, look at the thing in front of the anal fin. That is the genital papilla. In a closer look: The papilla is slightly rounded, very massive. Mostly this...

hey, beautiful fish you have there! Congrats, JD are great fish! if it is already big enough you could try to look for the shape of the genital papilla. But it is quite tricky to figure out which gender you have there, unless it spawns. Even the males grow a bigger papilla then, and you clearly...

Hey, Light is Dennerle Trocal, very strong light I have to admit. Ferts are Dennerle Nano daily fertilizer and the daily food for shrimp and fish. I don't vacuum the ground since it is fully overgrown by plants. I don't add CO2 because the tank is very small and the filter does not move the...

Hi, I have updated my little shrimp- aquascape "green plateau" due to very bad green algae problems. Plants stopped growing, algae everywhere... looked super fluffy, but got worse and worse. I had to put frogbite and salvinia in there to steal the nutrients vor every algae I could find. It...

since I want you to know how my "little new male" who is new partner of the big female since the dead of my own raised male, has developed since, I took a pic of him. Look how stunning he is! He became as big as the female within few months. Feeding high quality proteins can change everything...

hey everyone, big thanks to all of you who are following my post! It honours me to have such big response to it. Yes, I am still sad about my beautiful big boy. But time will tell whether the youngsters have his genes or not. Right now they are stunningly beautiful and much stronger than my...

hey, for a longer time the little ones were shy and I was busy, now I found time to take pics of them again. I think they have become two females and two males. The rest I have given away to a lfs. What would you say? Is the second female really a female or does it just have more coloured...

Since I was bored and had some time I took more pics to get the head markings as close as possible. Here we go, I have taken pics of the two biggest ones. The female: The blue area of the gill is clearly visible here, so I am absolutely sure it´s female :-) And here we have the "female" who...

Hey :) Thank you, I am proud to hear my pics are looking that good :) it takes about 20 pics and much time, food and patience with the fish to have one that good... For me it has also always been this way with the biggest one being a male... but this one is too blue to be male or am I wrong? I...

My youngsters are somehow deciding on their sexes, so here are the actual ones considering the blue areas on the gill. Two of the smaller ones I didn´t catch on a pic but they seem male to me... What would you say? Am I right with my guessing? They grow like hell so it should be clear in 2...

And another very beautiful picture of the big female youngster while she coloured up. It is definitely a female, and it is so beautiful...

again I made pictures and now I am almost sure the big ones are femaes. See by yourself. 1. Female (blue gills, no sharp dots) 2. Male (less blue and sharp dots) 3. Male (few blue, sharper dots than female) 4. Female (completely blue gill area and no sharp dots)