Size of JD's at sexual maturity
- Thread starter Linoleum
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Linoleum;3728363; said:
I'm no an expert here, but my JD's were approx 1 yr when they bred. At the time the female was pretty small. Maybe a little larger than 3 inches. The male was approx 4-5inches.
That's interesting information. My pair is about 3.5 inches long and I thought I would have to wait until they are at least 6 inches. Currently I am keeping them separated, but maybe I should start a try!
I've seen some pretty small pairs, about 4", but none of my dempseys have bred at that small of a size
I should have used something to guage size, but here is a camera photo of my Dempseys. The male being the larger of the two. The tank is a 110 Oceanic Bullet. But as you can tell they are not the biggest Dempseys out there, and these have spawn 5 times already.
I had a pair breed in a 180g community tank 3 weeks ago. The male was about 4" and the female 3". There were about a dozen young red hooks and 4 other similar sized dempseys in the tank with them. Since they bred on piece of bogwood I removed the wood and put it in a 10g tank and the babies hatched there.
I have had some females breed at 2inches. It all varies, but on average, 3-4inches, they start to breed. Please be reminded that breeding at that size may stunt their size a bit, hence slower growth.
Sarah88;3742195; said:
Thanks...I don't believe they are true albino's. My Adults are turning more Yellowish with some Blue and Red at the top of the fins. The Dorsal fins also have a blueish hue to them. But...There is some Brown in them that seems to be dissapearing as they grow older.
I read somewhere that these fish were Xanthic. Not sure though. To be honest, since i have had them more than a year now, not too many people have a lot of information on them. Some of my LFS that have been around for years never even heard of them.
I have now paired off 2 sets with some of the babies I raised up...Both are Male Blue and a Female Pink/Yellow/Gold whatever you want to call them. Not so sure if it will be successful, as I hjave heard that many people had problems with thier Blues being sterile/infertile I'll post up some pics of my project tonight.
Has anyone here successfully bred EBJD's with Pinks/Golds or whatever. Or has anyone Bred them with other Blues? I know that they have been bred in the past with Regular Dempseys. Just don't know if the Blue/Blue experiment has worked yet.