Electric Blue Jack Dempsey ??

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whopjag

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So I've been asking around about these fish and at first I was tld they were pure bred but now I'm finding out that they're just hybrids, this has just turned me off completely because I really wanted some.

So my question is to someone that is truly knowledgeble about these fish, are they HYBRIDS or PURE BREEDS ?????:help2::welcome::feedback::mwave:
 
There has been DNA testing that has concluded that the Electric Blue Jack Dempsey is in fact a naturally occurring color variant of the standard Jack Dempsey.
 
from my understanding there the out come of in breeding
could be wrong
just my two cents
 
1000% not hybrids. they just took the most beautiful jack dempseys they could find, selectively bred them and jacked the price up.
 
Its more like a "man made" variant using selective breeding...I dont think its naturally occurring, or at least Ive never heard of a wild caught EBJD, which it seems like there would be if it was naturally occurring.
 
Not a hybrid, like others said just selective breeding, which makes their gene pools imo weaker than a normal JD.

I had one for a while, it was the most timid mofo ever, eventually homed it back at the LFS and got a normal JD who is just as gorgeous as the EBJD imo, and doesn't put up with the female JD's BS, alot less timid, out and about all the time, dug himself a little cave where the pair of them sit and flirt with eachother, and they'll prolly end up spawning here shortly after only having the new male for about 2 weeks if that. Never would have seen it with the EBJD, just my experience. Idk what you're going after in the tank soooo
 
They're not HYBRIDS but they're still man made is what you all are saying ? well I guess i'll stick to what I know and get some Fastae!!
 
the blue gene is a recessive trait, not the result of hybridization. that being said, EBJDs probably would not survive if not for human intervention, because weaker EBJD fry would not survive in the wild

the fellow in Argentina who first produced these fish - - so they legend goes - - observed that his JD spawns included smaller, weaker fry that he deliberately separated from their larger siblings in order to grow them out

short story: not a hybrid, but not entirely "natural" either . . . they are the result of deliberate human selection . . .
 
Not a hybrid.

But personally i have serious doubts of its purity, one would think that by now someone would have manged to get ebjd from a pure JD pair.
 
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