Powder Blue Jack's

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Dirty Old Man

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I just saw a couple of powder blue jack dempsy's yesterday and was wondering if these were a hybrid of some sort. I've never seen them before in any other fish stores. If they are hybrids, what are they a mix of? They are extremely pretty and quite expensive ($50 for a 2".) Has anybody ever heard of them before?
 
That works for me. Thanks. They're a very pretty fish. Any idea why they're so expensive? Is it a recessive gene that comes out in regular jacks or can these fish breed and produce powder blue jack babies? If the latter, why are they so expensive?
 
Back when JD's were first bred in captivity two regular jacks would have lets say 100 fry 5-15 were blue and they were culled. Someone over in Germany selectivly bred JD's for the Electric Blue coloration. The way it occured was two JD's with the recessive gene bred and a select few showed a blue color. Then a electric Blue was selected to bred with a regular JD. Much more Blue fish. If you breed a blue with a blue there will be no blue ofspring, so you have to breed Blue with regular. Also EBJD's Grow VERY SLOWLY more or less 1 inch a year, that means that they mature VERY SLOWLY also adding to the price. Due to the rarity of the blue some people who are looking for the easiy money inbreeding EBJD's making them smaller, grow smaller, look extremely ugly when fully grown, and ridiculously priced, at my lfs EBJD's cost $35 a piece. Some pictures of fully grown EBJD's that are circulating are extremely beautiful but they are even more prized.
 
Pink-Floyd said:
Back when JD's were first bred in captivity two regular jacks would have lets say 100 fry 5-15 were blue and they were culled. Someone over in Germany selectivly bred JD's for the Electric Blue coloration. The way it occured was two JD's with the recessive gene bred and a select few showed a blue color. Then a electric Blue was selected to bred with a regular JD. Much more Blue fish. If you breed a blue with a blue there will be no blue ofspring, so you have to breed Blue with regular. Also EBJD's Grow VERY SLOWLY more or less 1 inch a year, that means that they mature VERY SLOWLY also adding to the price. Due to the rarity of the blue some people who are looking for the easiy money inbreeding EBJD's making them smaller, grow smaller, look extremely ugly when fully grown, and ridiculously priced, at my lfs EBJD's cost $35 a piece. Some pictures of fully grown EBJD's that are circulating are extremely beautiful but they are even more prized.
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thanks for the info Pink-Floyd.. yeah most that Ive seen are pretty nice when young, but when mature.. it didnt live to the price.. but the colors are pretty nice to stare at:ROFL:
lfs around us, goes with vairous prices, the cheapest i see they go for is 19bux and the most common are for 35buxs for a 2 incher..pretty nice fish.. but not my taste..:grinno:
 
i had 2, they where pretty cheap, bougth them in spain, but they secible fish, the ended up gar food, i allmoust died, they where beautifull fish...:irked:
 
ummm aquascape.com sells 3 for 75$ so i would buy them from pedro much nicer and will feed the day you get them most likley
 
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