the guy at my LFS told me that basically trying to do what i want to do is a lost cause, because even after i go thru the first gen, i dont want to breed the babies with the parents...so i will have to get another set and breed them, then breed the babies with the babies, and pray for an EBJD here or there...because all will then have the blue gene...
instead he told me to go a different route and try to breed Dubosi cichlids...because they are just as costly, and i am not going for a specific gender/color....instead the hardest part of breeding dubosis would be getting them to breed...
he told me in order to breed EBJD i would need two BGJD, not even an EBJD, and i would need about 5 pairs of those to breed, then i would need about ten 100gallon tanks, for the fry and them to breed in...and then would have to organize them to make sure i remember which is which, and just use trial and error until i get the best result...he then told me that after i did all of that, i would have spent hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on tanks, and fish....
