Jack Dempsey color quality?

[PwNz I R COLE]

I was wondering if there is jack Dempsey color quality cause I noticed some really nice looking ones then some not so nice looking ones I still like them equally deff bad a** fish

Good quality


Not so good


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[Aweshade9]

Well the first one looks like a female, so don't expect amazing color from that jd. To answer your question of course. There are color qualities to any fish species.

 

[Azedenkae]

Well there definitely is, though it does vary a bit as to how exactly one defines 'quality' in these cases. Is it the most color? The most specks? The way to blue and gold are laid out to make it look nice/not nice?

I'm sure what I think of as 'good' quality' will be different from your POV, and same with others.

 

[duanes]

I agree with Azedenkae that the definition of quality is a personal choice.
Whereas amount of blue might be the most popular criteria to many hobbyists, the inbreeding to produce it, seems to lead to weakened strains physically, and have taken the robustness out of an otherwise once sturdy fish.
I tend to like natural looking specimens, and in nature they are very varied in appearance even in a small cenote of maybe 1 million gallons.
Swimming with them in Mexico a few months back gave me a new appreciation for a fish that has (to my taste) become an artificially colorful, yet physically wimpy species in aquaria.

 

[dogofwar]

Exactly Duane. Mother Nature and aquarists usually have different perspectives on "quality"!

Matt

I agree with Azedenkae that the definition of quality is a personal choice.
Whereas amount of blue might be the most popular criteria to many hobbyists, the inbreeding to produce it, seems to lead to weakened strains physically, and have taken the robustness out of an otherwise once sturdy fish.
I tend to like natural looking specimens, and in nature they are very varied in appearance even in a small cenote of maybe 1 million gallons.
Swimming with them in Mexico a few months back gave me a new appreciation for a fish that has (to my taste) become an artificially colorful, yet physically wimpy species in aquaria.

 

[Belly up]

You can not leave diet and the amount of sun shine a fish gets from the equation, along with the color of the substrate. If you want your fish to really be at their best give them some pond time as weather allows. I once put some convicts in a small pool I dug in the back yard. It was about four feet across and three deep. I remember over the course of the summer the pair I put int grew to 57 of the prettiest convicts I have ever seen. Their inside cousins produced many more offspring but the colors were what you would expect from tank raised fish.

 

[cichlidfish]

Mine's color isn't good. I suspect inbreeding and poor genes. I bought him from a LFS because he was being beaten by the other JDs. My other fish eat the same things are are very colorful.




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[Belly up]

The reason your fish looks bleached out is because of your white sand. Put that fish over black and he will be a beauty!

 

[Black Jack]

Well the first one looks like a female, so don't expect amazing color from that jd.

So females cant have amazing colors huh??? rightttttttttttt

 

[Crazy mike]

Here's my male showing decent colors


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