Electric Blue Jack Dempsey. Taking a chance on beauty

[TTTT]

post any pics you guys may have of these wonderful creatures!!

ask and you shall receive! my guy, roughly 3-4", awesome I've had him since December 5th, first picture was taken christmas eve i think and the others maybe 2 weeks ago. Also, from thos pictures, he looks like a "floor hugging" fish, who only stays on the bottom. He's not, he swims around all the time, just a bit camera shy.

 

[RIZzoy]

very very nice lookin fish! I am almost jealous.

 

[TTTT]

very very nice lookin fish! I am almost jealous.

Thank you! He's very awesome, only cost me $15!

oh and sorry for the dirtiness of the glass, it's clean now.

 

[Sab_Fan]

here is a shot of mine; he is about 3" TL right now, at 1yr old . . . it has taken him a year to go from 1" to 3", while any other fish I've kept with him outgrew him in weeks . . .

I think the key is he has to live alone, because he seems to have a real hard time getting to food before other fish do; if you watch him at feeding time, you'd think he was either blind or a moron

has a pretty ugly beak-face, but I think his colors are nice . . .

 

[RIZzoy]

his colors are awesome. I think his growth rate seems pretty normal. three inches but he looks pretty full. Cant wait till mine start to show that kind of color. im jealous

 

[Sab_Fan]

his colors are awesome. I think his growth rate seems pretty normal. three inches but he looks pretty full. Cant wait till mine start to show that kind of color. im jealous

thanks, yeah I like how he's turning out . . .

as a comparison, I had a little Texas fish go from 2" to 5" in half the time . . . and he once shared space with a female convict that was smaller than him when she started and is now 2x his size

 

[ripper171]

hmmm... wow, some really nice fish there!
i'd love to keep some attractive fish in my tanks too... but unfortunately they are all filled with large predators...

It seems every time i get an other tank i somehow manage to fil it with one mean fish....

GOOD LUCK though, looks amazing from here!

 

[RIZzoy]

hmmm... wow, some really nice fish there!
i'd love to keep some attractive fish in my tanks too... but unfortunately they are all filled with large predators...

It seems every time i get an other tank i somehow manage to fil it with one mean fish....

GOOD LUCK though, looks amazing from here!

In the begining I started out with some of the biggest badass beast for fish. i had a "10 tiger oscar that would eat mice. After awhile I ditched the meanies for something a little more colorful. If youv've read my previos post EBJDs in my opinion are a very challenging fish to raise. Because they are "man made" and sometimes inbred they are a little more fragile and very challenging to raise from fry to adults. Many of the little ones sucumb to illness quickly if not raised properly (I found out the hard way) and dont get me started on breeding them ( something I plan to do eventually). All in all in MY OPINION I think these fish rule.

REmember the views I express are totally my own opinion. Please feel free to state comment on any or all my my post.

This is my Oscar with a mouse in his trap

 

[Sab_Fan]

If youv've read my previos post EBJDs in my opinion are a very challenging fish to raise. Because they are "man made" and sometimes inbred they are a little more fragile and very challenging to raise from fry to adults.

I think the consensus opinion is that EBJDs are not "man made" - - which implies hybrid - - but rather are a recessive form of a standard Jack Dempsey.

that being said, they probably wouldn't exist w/o human intervention, since the EBJD fry would not survive competition from their larger, healthier JD siblings. and yes, they are definitely inbred and typically more fragile than standard JD

 

[LobstersGoPeenchPeench]

i would try one but the only ones in my lfs are to bland and also cost 50 bux... jesh ill just wait until it goes down or a tank frees up