Black Jack Dempsey

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It's gona grown up and always be darker colored. I have and adult JD that is about 6-61/2" and he is still completly black besides for his turquise scales. I just picked up another JD the other day as a rescue from petsmart and he is only about 3" but has the same dark black body with the bright spots of coloration.:grinno:
 
ok well what im saying is majority of JD;s are dark when are young, so its impossible unless you buy 400 and breed to find ones with the darker genes sisnce majority have the lighter brown gene......
 
some just stay dark and some are light
i had 4 dark ones and heaps of light ones
its not a dark gene its just a coloration
of the fish
 
and coloration comes from genes.....thats like saying all white people are white or tan cause of skin coloration, which is true but that lies in the genes.... cause some people can get dark if they tan and some can tan for forever and still be white as a ghost, im not trying to argue or be be little-ing.. but im just stating color comes from a gene.....
 
I was wondering alot about this myself. I have a breeding pair of jacks and out of their babies i got four that had like half normal and half black even when stressed the front half of their body washed out and the tail end stayed jet black. The other thing that had me thinking is the story about the discovery of the ebjd's. I had a a bunch of babies when they had not Long started swimming that looked different and stayed together they also did not grow anywhere near as quick and ended up being eaten before i could get them out. I'm not saying one way or the other but it certainly is interesting.
 
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