Can anyone exlpain this JD?

[Jmart159]

I came across this video on youtube but I've never seen anything like it. I was wondering if it is a hybrid or some type of color strain I've never heard of or seen before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57-VMjh90Ao&feature=fvw

I tried adding the video itself but can't figure out how to do it. Anyway, that is the site.

 

[fobrinkle]

Normal male JD

 

[Citrinellus]

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The original Jack Dempsey.

 

[mrwinkle]

looks like a hybrid of a standard JD and a gold JD. I know ken has some gold JD for sale

 

[dpk2313]

I saw one like this at a show it placed as a normal jd

 

[Jmart159]

How so Orange? Normally they have the purple color and the others that I've seen looked more pinkish or light yellow. If this is a normal Jack I'm surprised it hasn't been bread more for that deep orange.

 

[peathenster]

looks like a hybrid of a standard JD and a gold JD. I know ken has some gold JD for sale

Gold JDs and normal JDs are the same species. Gold JDs are homozygous for a recessive gold gene. A cross between a normal JD and gold JD produces progenies that are heterozygous for the gold gene and therefore phenotypically indistinguishable from normal JD. In any event, they are still JDs; not hybrids.

 

[Dmoney1]

yeah, what he said

 

[Gruff Master]

I just recently saw a JD with this beautiful coloration. I thought it was a hybrid but the store owner explained that it was a wild JD. True or not, it was still an awesome specimen. I wanted to buy it but I have limited tank space at the moment. I'm surprised to see another one so soon. Great looking fish!

 

[Toby_H]

I've had a number of Dempseys with that red/orange look to them... It is a less than common but not abnormal coloration for a Dempsey...

And great post Peathenster! But to translate...

Mixing a Gold JD and a standard JD is NOT a hybrid. They are both the same species...

When you breed a 'Gold' JD with a standard JD, all the babies look exactly like a standard JD. They just have the "recessive gene", or are heterogeneous, for Gold.

For reference "Gold" Dempseys are actually Leucistic...