Just a quick update on these guys, they are doing well and turning more blue in color, a little slow growing but a cool fish for sure.
Electric pink jack dempsey
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That's a good question, I don't know how they got them but I have noticed that they look very long in body shape.
You get them if two fish carry the Blue/Gold gene. So if an Electric blue have gold genetics and it pairs up with a B/G gene gold or wild. It will produce platinum same thing for a grown Platinum pairing with B/G gene dempsey. Two standards with both genetics can throw all the colors as well. Nice colors on those plat's.
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is correct. These fish have a double recessive gold gene and a double recessive blue gene. There are a variety of parental genetic combinations that can create these. They seem to have a few different names. Here is a link to my thread about them if anyone is interested.
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/platinum-jack-dempseys.711152/
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/platinum-jack-dempseys.711152/
So why are there so many names for this fish? I bought them as electric pinks jd's, the store I bought them from were also selling platinums at the time I bought these, to me these looked more pink and blue and the platinums they were selling were more of an off white in color, could they both have be color variants of the same fish and the store was just naming them different?
Here is what I believe is going on. There are four color morphs of the Jack Dempsey. Anyone who breeds or sells them can call them whatever they want. There are what I would call the wild type which is the good old Jack Dempsey we see all the time. Then there are the electric blues that most of us would recognize. Next is what I (and many others) would call a gold. I think that some are calling these platinums. From your description, I would think that is what your store is doing. Then we finally have the platinum/electric pink. I have even read we’re some have called this a green. I guess gold and blue makes green - even though it doesn’t in the Jack Dempsey. It seems like platinum was used earlier on when they were breed and it seems like electric pink is being used more lately. They are the same. There might be variations in looks from one breeder to the next. I feel like my pictures of them never do them justice. My camera doesn’t pick up the subtitle blues in them. The are much more striking in person.
Gold - platinum - blue - wild
Gold - platinum - blue - wild