Jack colors

[thedarkone]

I have had my female JD for just under a year now. She is 6.5" her growth spurt has passed but she is still slowly growing. I have kept Jacks in the past and they have always been black with metallic blue and purple scales. The one that I have currently has some of the blue but she is mostly an olive green color and purple.

The only time she gets really dark and turns any shade of black is when she gets stressed out. Mostly when I get the gravel washer out. I can do water changes and move my hand around in her tank and it never bothers her, but whenever the gravel washer comes out she turns really dark and runs off and hides in one of her caves. She has a great personality and is by far my favorite fish I have ever kept.

Anyways I was wondering if this color pattern is common, I had never seen it until I got her. I posted pics down below.

 

[iloveyouDIE]

She's beautiful! I don't have any input other than that I am planning a tank for the summer and will be getting myself a jack.

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

she looks fine. Where did you get her from?

 

[thedarkone]

double post

 

[thedarkone]

She's beautiful! I don't have any input other than that I am planning a tank for the summer and will be getting myself a jack.

Thanks. She is a totally awesome fish!

 

[thedarkone]

she looks fine. Where did you get her from?

I didn't think that there was anything wrong with her, it's just that before I had her I had never seen a Jack with such light coloring.

I got her at a LFS store here in Spokane.

 

[V1xIII]

I think she's just really really relaxed. Very pretty JD, love the red coloring on the head. My male is just the opposite, jet black at all times, but then again he lives will a full grown male GT.

 

[Amphilophus88]

Maybe it's also because you have light gravel, when i switched from light to dark gravel the colours of all my fish turned a lot darker, especially the jack dempseys.

 

[Sarah88]

i think its also a genetics thing because i have my dempsey on light sand and she is completely black with tons of spangling all over her body and the only time she has been light colored was like the first week she was in the tank and was stressed out and still acclimating, since then she has always been the darker colors

 

[thedarkone]

i think its also a genetics thing because i have my dempsey on light sand and she is completely black with tons of spangling all over her body and the only time she has been light colored was like the first week she was in the tank and was stressed out and still acclimating, since then she has always been the darker colors

That's, funny because mine only gets dark when she's stressed.