Anyone have a Gold Jack Dempsey?

[pmtuneman13]

Very nice... thanks for sharing.

 

[PoopSmart]

How do you determine sex by the gill plate? what do you look for?

 

[AwolAngler]

I think you guys need to do a little bit of a breeding project and sell me some fry

 

[killerfish]

How do you determine sex by the gill plate? what do you look for?

males have little to no color on there gill plate where females have alot of sold to spotted iridescent color so shiny colors on gill female little to no shiny color on the gill plate male

 

[pmtuneman13]

I think you guys need to do a little bit of a breeding project and sell me some fry

That raises a question.... If I bred my gold with a reg male, would I have any gold fry? Or do I need two gold to reproduce a gold? Break out your Punnet squares people.

 

[ken 429]

i will let you know .i have had wigglers but i think my pleco ate them.

 

[pmtuneman13]

i will let you know .i have had wigglers but i think my pleco ate them.

Keep me in the loop.

 

[cookiemonster]

Well, your gold JD is GG for the gold trait, and a normal JD would be gg, so if you bred them together you would get all Gg's, normal looking JD's with the gold gene. If you breed the offspring with each other, you should get 25% GG (gold JD's), 50% Gg (Normal JD's with gold genes), and 25% gg (normal JD's with no gold genes). Yay 2nd period biology!

 

[Modest_Man]

Correct, but in genetics we use a capital letter for dominant, and lower case for recessive. So, techincally GG is normal and gg is gold, but it's all ambiguous, you get the same results. Whatever works I guess!

The best would be to breed an offspring back to the gold parent, because then you'd be breeding gg X Gg and you'd end up with 50% gg and 50% Gg. So half gold and half normal.

 

[pmtuneman13]

That's a lot of work. I respect fish breeders for their diligence.