Electric Blues are the same fish, just a less common colour variety, and from what little I know of them, can't be bred back to each other like normal JDs, needs to be and EBJD bred with a normal JD. Can't remember where I saw the article, if I find it, I'll post a link.

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breeding EBJD's

if you breed a EBJD with a EBJD you would not have a very good survival rate if any, most EBJD/EBJD breedings end with no fry making it.

if you breed a EBJD with a normal JD you will get no EBJD's, what you will get is BGJD

if you breed a EBJD back to a BGJD you will get a mix of normal JD and EBJD's

JD = Jack Dempsey
EBJD = Electric Blue Jack Dempsey
BGJD = Blue Gene Jack Dempsey

the BGJD is a carrier of the recessive trait (BLUE!) so the JD will show no Electric Blue colour BUT it is there to be passed on to there fry/young (heterozygous)

normal = JJ = the every day good old Jack
heterozygous = Jj = normal Jack phenotype (physical appearence,colour, with Electric Blue Gene)
Electric = jj = recessive trait,full all out EBJD.

I found this out when I was trying to breed out the recessive trait of my Jag (XANTHIC)

this was him


and this was my JDs past

normal


5inch EBJD male


your JD looks like a brute, very impressive fish.

and as of to your other question in your other thread will a GT and JD mix with each other ........ I have done it many times with no uniform result, its a hit and miss both fish can be aggressive and territorial.

Great thread of info really interesting didn't relise it was so difficult to get a ebd, great pics aswell by the way. Thanks