Looks like a gold Dempsey to me. Which LFS did you buy it from?
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Albino Perch? What did I buy?
- Thread starter rmkblades
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The first guy at Tokyo Aquarium. They had him labeled as an Albino Perch. I figured they had him mislabeled, but off the bat I wasn't sure what he was. So I got him and figured someone here might know. Last week I bought my Gold JD at Jim's Exotic fish. He is the one in the second pic. He clearly looks like a jack dempsey. Even looks like my Jewel in the last pic. The "perch" or whatever it is has a different type of body. No clue though, unless it is a gold JacK Dempsey with a messed up spine...
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The one with blue gill plate is female, ones with blue spots on gill plate is male gold Dempsey. One has a deformed back that's why it looks different.
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Cool, I appreciate you taking a look. So I wonder where they got the idea to throw out a name like "Albino Perch", lol. Here is a pic of a Japanese Perch, maybe they thought it was an albino one of these (even though the JD isn't even an albino, just leucistic)
Actually I found this albino cichlasoma nigrofasciatum PERCH female breeding. It kind of does look like your fish.
