i am puzzled

[killieskid]

i bought two baby jack dempseys, the regular kind, not the blues, they are exactly the same size and age and looked the same when i bought them, now all of a sudden one is a lot darker then the other! could it be that one is a female and the other a male? or would it be a stress thing? or do they just change with age and i was wrong about being the same age?

 

[Lupin]

This could be stress. What are your water parameters and how did you acclimate them?

 

[Slappy*McFish]

The darker one is probably the dominant one.

 

[MySpace Mike]

It is not stress, Jack Dempseys turn pale in color when they are stressed. Its natural for regular Dempseys to turn dark in color. I have 2 baby Dempseys that do the same thing. It's natural for regular Dempseys to turn dark in color. Dark color probably does mean its the more dominant one of them.