Red Breasted Jack Dempsey

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Anyone ever seen them in the hobby?

I used to have a pair about 15 years ago, and traded it in when I was a kid working in an LFS. I have never seen them since.

The blue on them were a bit brigher, though nothing like the electric blues, and they had a red chest that if memory serves correctly, starts from the end of the lower jaw and continues to the anal fin. Pretty sharp looking fish. I wish I had taken a few shots before I got rid of it (or even better, wish I bred them a few times and actually bothered to grow some up and trade some in so they could stay in the hobby by my area).

Where I come from, you see the rarest and newest of the Africans, but Dovii come in about 1x/year, Umbees I see 1x every few years, etc., Most of the JDs in my city seem to all come from a few hobbyists with essentially the same fish, and I was wondering if other areas had this pretty nice race of JDs. I remember it being featured in TFH in the 1990's.. article was titled 'The Mayan Cichlids' or something like that.
 
I've never heard of them. Anyone have any pictures? Sounds kindof like a Firemouth.
 
I have heard of them several times, really want to get my hands on some. Sometimes they are called the purple breasted jack dempsey or red breasted...very kewl lookin fish. I knew someone that had one for a bout 6 months, but then it died, very sad......bout beat that guy up...lol.....
 
i used to see them quite often. the best JD i ever owned had a body the color of a red wine. very nice. i used to see maroonish and purplish ones and now all i ever see are the black and tan with regular spotting
 
I just bought 3 electric blue jack dempseys, I currently have 1 jack dempsey. Im going to move the regular to a tank by himself but I was wondering if anyone has bred electric blues. I heard the only way was to breed them with regulars then back to blue again to fertalize. Is that the only way, why wont they fertilize if they breed blue on blue?
 
Shadow 313373 said:
I just bought 3 electric blue jack dempseys, I currently have 1 jack dempsey. Im going to move the regular to a tank by himself but I was wondering if anyone has bred electric blues. I heard the only way was to breed them with regulars then back to blue again to fertalize. Is that the only way, why wont they fertilize if they breed blue on blue?

Electric blues can breed together, but they create regular Jack Dempseys. Blue Dempseys and regular dempseys breed to create baby regs, but you breed the fry with the father, and the fry have to be females. This usually takes awhile, as 99.9% are males, so if you get lucky, breed it with the father blue dempsey for more blue fry. You could make money off of this.
 
the breeding 2 blues together and getting all regular ones it totally false
 
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