I just joined. We got 5 BGJD today from a fellow on AquaBid, and they look a lot different than the Jack Dempsey fry we got for $0.50 and are raising up. I was on here looking at the pictures of the JD's and didn't see any of the BGJD's. Do they normally look different than regular JD's?
About me:
I have about 12 tanks running right now, ranging from 1-gallon betta bowls to my 55 gallon cichlid tank.
I'm homeschooling my kids and this year we're getting heavy into biology, and breeding. We have a tank of red cherry shrimp, did some genetics experiments on crossing Endlers and fancy guppies, just bred bettas, have a convict tank (wrigglers in there now), have some auratus melanochromis in the large tank we were hoping to breed (but they're all staying female). We have a tank of platinum blue gene angelfish and a gourami tank, along with some marmokrebs. And probably some other stuff I forgot.
The regular Jack Dempseys were only 1/2" when we got them but they are cool little fish. That got me to decide I wanted to try to get a breeding pair of the Electric Blue kind, and found some BGJD's on aquabid. It seemed to me less risky breeding two fish that carry one EBJD gene than to try to raise up an expensive and more fragile EBJD to breed to a BGJD and hope they work. So we should get 25% BGJD's instead of 50%.
The new ones, the BGJD's are the same size as our regular ones but their fins are dark black and their bodies are black too; our regular ones are a tan color with nice yellow/blue sparklies. All are around 1 1/4" now (new ones too). They eat like little pigs! We keep them in the kitchen and whenever we walk by they're begging for more food, no matter how much they've already eaten!
About me:
I have about 12 tanks running right now, ranging from 1-gallon betta bowls to my 55 gallon cichlid tank.
I'm homeschooling my kids and this year we're getting heavy into biology, and breeding. We have a tank of red cherry shrimp, did some genetics experiments on crossing Endlers and fancy guppies, just bred bettas, have a convict tank (wrigglers in there now), have some auratus melanochromis in the large tank we were hoping to breed (but they're all staying female). We have a tank of platinum blue gene angelfish and a gourami tank, along with some marmokrebs. And probably some other stuff I forgot.
The regular Jack Dempseys were only 1/2" when we got them but they are cool little fish. That got me to decide I wanted to try to get a breeding pair of the Electric Blue kind, and found some BGJD's on aquabid. It seemed to me less risky breeding two fish that carry one EBJD gene than to try to raise up an expensive and more fragile EBJD to breed to a BGJD and hope they work. So we should get 25% BGJD's instead of 50%.
The new ones, the BGJD's are the same size as our regular ones but their fins are dark black and their bodies are black too; our regular ones are a tan color with nice yellow/blue sparklies. All are around 1 1/4" now (new ones too). They eat like little pigs! We keep them in the kitchen and whenever we walk by they're begging for more food, no matter how much they've already eaten!
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