My JD is 9inches, I think it hasn't grow any longer in the past few months.
So here is the best picture I could get to show the length of it. My 55 gallon is 12 inches front to back. You can see that there from the picture. My JD take up about 9 inches of that. His lip was right on the back wall there. Hes wasn't totally straight or else its a bit longer.
I just purchased a male JD from an auction yesterday. He is one of the largest I've seen. I would estimate him to be close to 10 inches. I will try to get a pic up soon.
That's a big JD gverde. I'm also wondering how old he is. Mine is only 2 years old (counting from the time I got it at 1.5-2inches).
Here are a few pictures I took a while back (already posted on some thread on here). I'm busy for the next few days, I'll try to get more later. The color really showed up on these. There are blue on the tail and an orange strip on the top fin but it's hard to capture.
You have a nice looking JD also LSBoost. I paid $10 for mine at the Chicago Area Cichlid Aasociation Auction. What a steal huh. I just couldn't pass him up. I guess no one wanted him because he was so big. There was a couple of large red devils in the 10 inch range that was auctioned for 5-6 dollar also . I would have bid for one but I already have a 8-9 in. Red Devil in my 220 gallon tank. I thought there may be a war when I put the JD in the tank but the JD didn't want anything to do with the RD. The RD chases the JD around when he gets too close to her but other than that leaves the JD alone. I really have no info on how old he is or what size tank he was in so hopefully he isn't very old.
That was a real bargain. Amazing prices. From looking at yours gverde it looks like it has to be 5 or more years old it looks really mature it makes my 8 inch look quite young and mine is 2 years old. I suppose for a JD 5 - 6 years old is not that bad at all.
Can you get any photos of it with the RD? Nice combo there
marinerm10, I think you you are correct. I would estimate him to be around 5 years old.
I'll try to get a photo of them together tonight. It may be kind of hard though. If I can't get them close together, I'll take a pic of the red devil.
Here's a couple more pics. It was almost impossible to get the red devil and jack demsey together so I just took a group shot of the tank and a separate shot of the RD.
Yes! females can definately hit 9". Can't remember his name on here but he lived in Hawaii and he had a HUGE gorgeous female... Looked much like that one there... Incidently it's temperment in the big tank is that of a females... The males (3) in the big tank are D-bags lol
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