ID on this lil guy

[sean2024]

Oh i see, still beautiful fish either way. Love his red and light blue

 

[phreeflow]

Give it time, he’ll get way nicer

 

[sean2024]

Give it time, he’ll get way nicer

I look forward to seeing that. Thanks man

 

[duanes]

They can easily reach 10" with the proper care, and frequent water changes.
In the Cenotes of Mexico (where they are endemic) they are in almost constant water changes from under ground aquifers.
https://youtu.be/eBFAtr6ZfIs
In the Cenote above, they share habitat with Mayaheros uropthalmus, and they get a bit beat up.
Below they are the dominant cichlid in lats of of space, and do much better, where they share habitat with large sail fin mollies, and rhamdia catfish
https://youtu.be/txmi1mng_XQ

 

[Kevin@TUIC]

Exactly not all JDs get the purple colonization. The strain that TUIC is selling is from a specific catch location. They carry the gene for that specific color morph.

Yep, not all dempseys are the same dempsey. In fact there are 3 species of dempsey, Rocio gemmata, Rocio ocotal, and of course Rocio octofasciata. Each specific to different parts of the dempsey range(s) and of course each with slightly different color, shapes, or physical traits. The typical hobby JD from the FL or Asian fish farms is almost certainly a mix of any of the 3. why? simple, for decades it was just 1 species..

fun note. The electric blue dempsey. in 2000 Jeff Rapps commissioned & funded DNA workup on the species(extremely expensive back then). They in fact came back as pure dempsey(all were considered octofaciata at the time still) That was back then.. today who knows what they are probably mixed with. I know, I know, yeah but "why aren't they found in the wild?".. well, gotta know where to look

check this clip out from Cenote Cristalino, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. The cichlids are Rocio gemmata, the smaller growing ‘Jack Dempsey’ that is also found in Yucatán cenotes. Check out the nearly all electric blue stud swim by towards the end of the clip! wowzers!
link to video: http://instagr.am/p/DCErCHnRd9B/
Also, your fish is young and on a dark substrate. So besides it blending in with its surroundings, being young it will color up as it ages.

 

[sean2024]

They can easily reach 10" with the proper care, and frequent water changes.
In the Cenotes of Mexico (where they are endemic) they are in almost constant water changes from under ground aquifers.
https://youtu.be/eBFAtr6ZfIs
In the Cenote above, they share habitat with Mayaheros uropthalmus, and they get a bit beat up.
Below they are the dominant cichlid in lats of of space, and do much better, where they share habitat with large sail fin mollies, and rhamdia catfish
https://youtu.be/txmi1mng_XQ

That’s amazing, im gonna take real good care of him. Fiesty lil guy, does not like my male convict. They were just lip locking and the big JD won. They’re both the same size to. He chases my female convict around and bullys her for food. Im getting a nice 6 footer friday from this 90g so im gonna keep the male comvict and the JD alone because the male can hold himself better than the female and keep the female in the 90. I also wanna keep both convicts separate due to breeding snd killing everything in my tank lol

 

[sean2024]

Yep, not all dempseys are the same dempsey. In fact there are 3 species of dempsey, Rocio gemmata, Rocio ocotal, and of course Rocio octofasciata. Each specific to different parts of the dempsey range(s) and of course each with slightly different color, shapes, or physical traits. The typical hobby JD from the FL or Asian fish farms is almost certainly a mix of any of the 3. why? simple, for decades it was just 1 species..

fun note. The electric blue dempsey. in 2000 Jeff Rapps commissioned & funded DNA workup on the species(extremely expensive back then). They in fact came back as pure dempsey(all were considered octofaciata at the time still) That was back then.. today who knows what they are probably mixed with. I know, I know, yeah but "why aren't they found in the wild?".. well, gotta know where to look

check this clip out from Cenote Cristalino, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. The cichlids are Rocio gemmata, the smaller growing ‘Jack Dempsey’ that is also found in Yucatán cenotes. Check out the nearly all electric blue stud swim by towards the end of the clip! wowzers!
link to video: http://instagr.am/p/DCErCHnRd9B/
Also, your fish is young and on a dark substrate. So besides it blending in with its surroundings, being young it will color up as it ages.

Oh i see, wow, had no idea there were 3, i thought there was just octofaciata, thats crazy. Who knows what I got. I bought online and it just said 3-4 inch jack dempsey so idk. Those Electric blue jd’s are beautiful, to weak now tho. I had a few of them and they died. Did regular water changes, parameters were always great, took real great care of em and they died.