Meet my New Fish!

[Kalei]

Mine too I had to cut down on my bettas food they were getting a little big.Congrats on you new addition.I love cichlids.He is a beauty.

Thanks very much!

[king2005]

Male & female JD look pretty much the same but with 1 difference. Fin shape..

That is a female JD

Females have rounded fins & the males come to a point that stretch to the tips of their tails (it the back fin & the butt fin I'm talking about).

I had a JD for about 5-6yrs.


I think I saw other fish in the tank.. You do understand he will kill them right? Hes an agressive fish & will require a min of a 50gal tank. A lot of fish stores never stay those parts & they can grow larger then 8"

Here is a small wiki on the JD Clicky



EDIT:

How much are you feeding her??
If you over feed the fish will create too much amonia & that could cause the fish to get HITH (Hole In The Head). Its common in large Cichlids. When you see all those large Cichlids with ugly pitted faces, thats caused by HITH. & it'll kill the fish over time. So as a young JD a small feeding/day.. When fully grown 1 decent feeding every 3 days. It helps to prevent HITH & so the fish wont get fat & unhealthy either

[IRescue452]

Did you name it? Did I miss the name? I'm confused.

[king2005]

Did you name it? Did I miss the name? I'm confused.

She named the fish HeadMaster

[Kalei]

Thanks for the advice King2005, I know quite alot about fish since I"ve owned many different kinds all my life, but I really appreciate you looking out for me and my fish. Thanks for letting me know its a she, I didn't know that, and now I do, yay!

She is in a 55 gallon tank and yes there are some other fish in there with her. But ones an angelfish, and the angelfish is bigger than her and they don't bother each other. There are some smaller fish in there as well and I do expect them to probably get eaten eventually, but I may take some of them out and put them in my father's tropical tank so they can live

[Kalei]

Hehe I just noticed the fish you saw in the last picture, that one isn't real, its on the background of my tank.

[king2005]

Hehe I just noticed the fish you saw in the last picture, that one isn't real, its on the background of my tank.

Ok good, cause it looked small hehehe

Good to hear shes in a good enviroment.

Just one more thing... She more then likely will all of a sudden start attacking the Angelfish. My JD lived with an Oscar 4 times his size for many years.. Then one day they litterly turned enemies! Jack would start bitting Oscar & in return Oscar would try to bite Jack.. It was a war between those 2 I had to put a huge rock really close to the glass so Jack could get away from Oscar. It was very sad as Oscar bit Jack one day. Jack was soooo scared to leave his rock. & I think Oscar felt bad was she stopped trying to eat Jack.

[petslover]

He is really pretty. Congrats!