Electric Pink Jack's coming soon?

[Jasons_cichlids]

My male EBJD and female Gold Jack have spawned for the third time, giving me a few batches of fry. From what I've read, this should produce mostly blue gene Jack's, being a 50/50 of both regular and pink's, and giving me a small percentage of both Electric Pink's and Electric Blue's. If this is the case, I'll be raising a female gold blue gene to breed back to the EBJD father to get a much higher percentage of Electric's. My main goal for this breeding project is to make Electric Pink's readily available in the hobby again.

 

[Modest_Man]

Good luck. From what I remember when these were bred a decade or so ago it was better to cross EBJD X Normal JD to get a carrier with the EBJD gene and cross that with the offspring of a Pink JD X Normal JD that was a carrier for the pink gene. You end up with ~1/16 EPJD.

The EBJD X Pink JD fry tended to not have a good survival rate, but if you have fry that are doing well you're on the right track, and you'll get a higher percentage of Electic Pink fry.

 

[Jasons_cichlids]

Thank you, good to know. I'm anxious to find out what the ideal recipe is for large batches of healthy Pink's.