I know this is old but..

I keep 2 Jack Dempseys

Male


Female


Looking after fry

xof - your Jacks had babies, how cool. My dempseys look just like yours.
They are beautiful.

I have 3 jack dempseys, 3 salvinis, 6 lil oscars, 6 lil clowns, 1 pleco
1 lil parrot (against my promise to myself never to by a dyed fish) but I wanted to try one
and it was just too darn cute & by the way its getting along with everyone nicely. Oh! I forgot
I also have a small red devil, that I don't think will be very red. Yep! well stocked but moving up to a bigger tank probably by the end of the month.

ive got 2 gold severums in one of my tanks and they seem to get spooked very easily the one keeps hiding aswell.

severums are nice fish.

Margaret150 wrote:

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1 lil parrot (against my promise to myself never to by a dyed fish) but I wanted to try one
and it was just too darn cute & by the way its getting along with everyone nicely.

A standard parrot isnt a dyed fish, its a cross breed (it wouldnt survive in the wild- its too deformed, look at the mouth)

Some parrots are dyed, but many aren't. The calico and red varieties aren't, but the blue and yellow ones are. Please don't buy a fish that is dyed, it a very cruel process and the fish are injected with dye using needles that would be the size of pencils to us. Not to mention they live unusually short lives.

My 9'' Jack Dempsey Jade died yesterday Was very old. Right now the only CA's i have are a convict cichlid. I'll be getting another jack dempsey and some more cons soon.

Sorry to hear your JD died. 9" is a pretty nice sized JD! How long did it take to get to that length and how old was it when it died?