Electric Blue JD health problems??

[Stanv03]

So I’ve been looking around and I’m curious to find out, is it true that Electric blue jack Dempsey only last you for a few years? I’ve been watching YouTube on these beautiful fish and I’ve learned that they are smaller/ less aggressive but comes with health problems or are more prone to diseases and that’s why it’s “rare” to find adults? I would love to here some opinions on this topic please .

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) link to one of the videos I’ve watched, posted 4 years ago maybe they have improved on the health?

 

[Fatpuffer]

I never had chance to keep it long term. I was successful in breeding but sold the group shortly after. My ebjd was amazingly healthy. Although I did have a few prior to that was weak and not make it to adulthood. The pic is the male.

 

[Deadeye]

To get that strong blue color, there is a lot of inbreeding. Eventually there becomes a lot of genetic defects, which ultimately leads to many health problems and increased mortality rate.

 

[Fatpuffer]

As far as I know the blue is a genetic mutation and not line bred like other fish. They were a lot of inbreeding in the beginning as the nature of the mutation to breed ebjd to regular jd to get carriers and breed carriers to another ebjd.

 

[Azedenkae]

As far as I know the blue is a genetic mutation and not line bred like other fish. They were a lot of inbreeding in the beginning as the nature of the mutation to breed ebjd to regular jd to get carriers and breed carriers to another ebjd.

This is correct, as far as we know.

As far as we know, the issues with health is tied to the genes controlling the electric blue coloration itself. So even if one do two sets of breeding between EBJD and a wild type JD, and then take a F1 from one set and breed it with a F1 from the other (i.e. both are carriers), then the resultant F2 EBJDs will still be weak. I.e. even if we introduce 'new genetics' into the mix, the EBJD is still weak.

This is not to say all health issues found in EBJDs are from the genes controlling color, as surely some will be from linebreeding too.

 

[CTC]

EBJD are only slightly less aggressive than normal JDs in my experience, and can even be more aggressive (beating up normal JDs)

however, I have discovered that MANY issues with EBJD dying early is due to feeding bloodworms. They are actually very hardy fish! however, they are susceptible to internal parasites often introduced by frozen bloodworms. DONT EVER feed EBJD frozen bloodworms, instead feed frozen brine shrimp. I have not lost any EBJD since I stopped feeding blood worms