Jack Dempsey Coloring

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First off, this is my first thread. I want to say thanks to everyone for providing so much information throughout this forum to help others learn about the skill of fish keeping.

Secondly, I was in the LFS today and was attracted to the small JD tank. Some of the JD's were almost black with bright blue markings, and others were very very light colored with black spots. I couldn't figure it out. I watched them for a while and they didn't change colors. Why were there so many variation? There were about 15 of them at 2-3"'s each. About 50% each color.
 
Jd's have a bunch of colors they display,....the ones with blue on the gill plates are female.
 
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just as bigspizz said, jds color varies alot and they also change there colors from dark to light

when ever my jd is cool and xalm her colors will be light
when she gets aggressive, like when im feeding her feeder fish, she get darker
 
yh my JD does that go dark when feeding also i pick up 2 dempsey and 1 was a more paler colour and the other was darker but the paler one is looking alot more colourful, iam picking up another JD because its a female and the others are male
 
combination of differnt moods and dominance also have they been fed recently when mines full it darkens up
 
lol mines never full he gets most of the food as the biggest and strongest out of my green texas, con and other smaller jd picking the female JD on friday
 
Thanks guys. Do you think it would be worth it to order the JD's from a breeder? Or will the LFS have pretty good stock. I would have to get them shipped to me and everything.
 
You could take a chance and order them from a breeder.(what the price) If you got to the lfs you can actually see how healthy they are. I have one in my 100 gallon. He's in there with a bunch of other fish. He has amazing color to him and he changes color from light to dark. He is usually black green blue. And I noticed a red strip on his top back fin. He's the only one in the tank the eats the pinky mice I throw in there. He's only like 5 inchs
 
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