Jack Dempseys: Love them, hate them, why?

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Bunk! I call shenanigans. This is how big JDs have looked for as long as I’ve been poking my ancient nose into fish stores. To say it’s not how they ought to look is snobby BS. Post some pics of huge wild ones that look like Dolphins (or cucumbers or dildos or whatever the Ideal MFK standard is) and there’s a case to be made.:D
 
Judge Holden said:
Is this one suffering from Great Back Plague:

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Big guy. I feel like the dorsal fins on wild jacks would be a bit bigger as well. A lot of the ones I've seen seem to have little control over their top fin for whatever reason.

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I'm not saying that you can't find what would be considered a nice Jack Dempsey. I'm just biased, it's the same reason I don't like most oscars. They have similar issues. I have a soft spot for some oddball fish though.

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Judge Holden said:
Bunk! I call shenanigans. This is how big JDs have looked for as long as I’ve been poking my ancient nose into fish stores. To say it’s not how they ought to look is snobby BS. Post some pics of huge wild ones that look like Dolphins (or cucumbers or dildos or whatever the Ideal MFK standard is) and there’s a case to be made.:D[/QUOTE

So it's bad to think that a fish that entered the trade as a wild caught fish is supposed to look like something that could've survived in the wild and lack deformity?

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So why does one of my jack dempsey have "crack back" while the other one does not both basiclly the same size I posted pics of em too the one that doesn't have the crack back has the common cut fin on the dorsal aswell

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So it's bad to think that a fish that entered the trade as a wild caught fish is supposed to look like something that could've survived in the wild and lack deformity?
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I'm denying that it couldn't survive in the wild and has a deformity. The burden of proof is squarely on the shoulders of those asserting otherwise. Thought experiments about what could or might happen in the wild aren't evidence. They're not even anecdotes. Define "defect" in evolutionary terms.
 
All this jack dempsey talk is making me wanna go buy one

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