Scarlet Pink Jack Dempseys

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Not all "wild type" or "normal" jack dempseys have red it them though. There is a difference. the whole purpose of classification is to organize things into different catergories based on their differences and similarites. There is a difference. Im glad the guys I bought were called scarlet jack dempseys because if the lfs ordered the regular jacks I most likely would have got ones without red coloring! This is another reason why we classify things, in order to find them or identify them easier.
 
AmazonAngel;2907150; said:
Not all "wild type" or "normal" jack dempseys have red it them though. There is a difference. the whole purpose of classification is to organize things into different catergories based on their differences and similarites. There is a difference. Im glad the guys I bought were called scarlet jack dempseys because if the lfs ordered the regular jacks I most likely would have got ones without red coloring! This is another reason why we classify things, in order to find them or identify them easier.
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You have a regular jack dempsey. he just happens to have more red/pink to him then regular wild dempsey(regular jack). I've seen wild jacks(regular jacks) with red/pink pigmentation, deep purple shaded pigmentation, deep blue pigmentation, and turquoise pigmentation. LFS here recently had an 8" dempsey for sale that had the bluest head I had ever seen. Goregeous beast. Just because he had such a blue head doesn't make him a blue dempsey; the same reason yours having a pink/red pigmentation wouldn't make it a red/pink dempsey.

Does that make sense? I understand what you're saying about coloring, but if you strip off the pigmentation differences that I just spoke of with the red/pink, purple, blues, greens then you have a very bland looking dempsey. This wild jack happens to have different pigmentation colors associated to it. Maybe it is dependent on the collection point? Maybe there are slight variations of the wild jack as there are with the carpintis species.

Your fish is definitely a goregeous looking fish but I still say it's a wild jack / regular jack dempsey.

ps: LFS's market fish to get a sale, usually at a profit to their pocket. Royal green terror is a great example, or an 'electric blue' texas cichlid, or a 'Emerald scale" texas. These are normal fish species that happen to have a slight variation and the lfs's will exploit this anomoly to get more money for the fish.
 
AmazonAngel;2907150; said:
Not all "wild type" or "normal" jack dempseys have red it them though. There is a difference. the whole purpose of classification is to organize things into different catergories based on their differences and similarites. There is a difference. Im glad the guys I bought were called scarlet jack dempseys because if the lfs ordered the regular jacks I most likely would have got ones without red coloring! This is another reason why we classify things, in order to find them or identify them easier.
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Calling something a scarlet Jack Dempsey has diddly squat to do with scientific classification.
 
I dont mean to be a pain in the ass but scientifically they are all Cichlasoma octofasciatum anything else is a common name right?
 
AmazonAngel;2907938; said:
I dont mean to be a pain in the ass but scientifically they are all Cichlasoma octofasciatum anything else is a common name right?
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Nope.
http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery.php?genus=Rocio
After the revision of ''exCichlisoma''/'Archocentrus' octofasciatus into Rocio an then split into different species, the common JD is nothing more than a hobby hybrid. Like cons.
 
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