Flower horn or EBJD

I have read that EBJD X EBJD offspring are usually not viable and die off before they reach a sellable size. With that in mind, it is my opinion that you would be best off with a male EBJD and a female BGJD. EBJD's are less aggressive than their standard counterpart, and males are larger than females, therefor a male Jack would probably be too aggressive for a female electric blue. The size/aggression issues should even out fairly well this way. Also, wouldn't EBJD X BGJD result in [roughly] a 50/50 ratio of electric blue and blue gene offspring? I haven't done punnet squares since I was in middle school, but I believe if you worked it out on paper that is what you would get. Keep in mind, I am no expert on the subject so I cannot say with 100% certainty that what I am saying is fact, but I have however studied breeding electric blue's for roughly six months and this is what I have concluded.
 
Kalen your 100% correct EBJD x Reagular JD = 100% BGJD that carry the blue trait, met you take a female from that spawn and breed it with an unrelated male to get 50% ebjd and 50% normal JD you cull the fry to keep them from the blue siblings and raise the EBJD, now I think my best way to do this is to get a 75 gallon divide it and on one side place an EBJD and Regualr Jack then on the other have the same process but I would need to grow out the ebjd to a breedable size or find one for sale. I could always find a female BGJD but idk how many people have grown ones for sale I'd like to stay away from aquabid just becuase you can't trust that site, to many scams. If anyone on here knows where I can get them (EBJD or BGJD) please let me know! But I'm thinking in the mean time while I set everything up I'll breed green terror or Freddy cichlids!
Any other suggestions as to breeding and maintaing an EBJD tank?
~Kyle
 
the everything dempsey forum has some reputable breeders on it. I actually bought my EBJD around 3" from a LFS, which was nice because I could pick out which one I wanted, they had 3 or 4 at the time.

One thing I noticed with mine when I first got him was he seemed very shy and lethargic, but I had him at room temp. I bumped the temp up to 80 and he's been out and about ever since.

I actually keep him with a handful of other small JDs, I picked the largest out of a group that I had and put them with him and they seem to get along well, once I can sex them reliably I'll pull the males out and just give him a harem to choose from.
 
Well, my vote is the Flowerhorn route, but then I'm a real fan of Flowerhorns :) :) :)
 
I would love to try flower horns but Im about to order a breeding pair of BGJD from Ken fishfarm thanks to tropics haha but nice I get more tank size I'd be more than happy to try breeding some ZZ dragons expensive but could very well be worth it
 
nano cichlids said:
I would love to try flower horns but Im about to order a breeding pair of BGJD from Ken fishfarm thanks to tropics haha but nice I get more tank size I'd be more than happy to try breeding some ZZ dragons expensive but could very well be worth it
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Let me know if he has any pairs right now. I emailed him last months and he was sold out.
 
Will do kalen if he doesn't which I highly doubt I could help you find some there's a local pair around my area but the breeders asking 100$ for them I'm working on lowering the price
 
The last time I had emailed Ken was 7/29 and he said he had just sold two pairs so he was out of females for the moment but had adult blue gene males for $20, blue gene fry for $5, and electric blue fry for $15. I wish I wasn't too impatient to just grow some out, but so far that's been the case haha. That is probably going to have to change though.

Is the pair you are considering buying locally an EBJD male and a BGJD female, or just two BGJD's? If it's an EBJD male and BGJD female then that's not a bad deal, you'd make your money back off the first successful spawn.
 
No it's two Blue Genes my concern is that this could really be just two regular jacks, i don't personally know this guy He did drop the price to 60$ but I have to pick them up today and he lives in detroit, I live in clarkston which is about 4ish hours away and I don't have the time today to do this. Kalen when Ken responds to my email I'll ask him how many pairs he has.
 
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