Powder Blue Jack Dempsey

[AWAK.]

That little guy is awesome.

 

[koliveira]

Electric Blue Jack Dempseys are actually a cross bred fish that cannot be bred in the home aquarium. At least that is what I was told at one of the LFS. But they are beautiful fish . I have one in my 75 gallon. I got mine for $30.00.

No they are not a hybrid! It is a recessive trait!

 

[Pink-Floyd]

Electric Blue Jack Dempseys are actually a cross bred fish that cannot be bred in the home aquarium. At least that is what I was told at one of the LFS. But they are beautiful fish . I have one in my 75 gallon.

The LFS was actually right wow.

The principle reason that Electric Blue Dempseys are not widely available on the market, and that prices remain high for the species ($30-$60), is due to the fact that breeding Jack Dempseys to achieve Blue Dempseys is a tricky proposition. Two blues bred together will not produce a full blue offspring. To achieve full blue offspring, you must first start with a blue male and breed him with a regular color female Jack Dempsey. The offspring that this pair creates will appear as regular Jack Dempseys, but the difference is that they will carry the blue gene. This group of fish must now be grown out to the size where a female can be determined and selected and bred back to the original blue male. The offspring of this pairing will produce an indeterminant number of true blue variant fish. Obviously a project like this is not for the faint of heart and will require enormous growout type of facilities.

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Beautiful pics too.
These existed way back when people were breeding JD's but the blue ones were culled from the batch belived to be runts.