My jack dempsey is phsyco! He will eat anything that’s in “his” tank. If he can’t eat it he will rip it in pieces..my dempsey was so intelligent, every time it was feeding time he would jump out of the water and snatch the pellet’s out of my fingers! Now he is 5 inches you can see him on my page…Sad that he hates every TYPE of fish in the world, last time he was kept with other fish was when he was a fry..until he got an inch, he nearly killed all his brothers and sisters!

yeah dont feed him for a week or two!!!

i’ve got a jack dempsey and a tiger barb and a guppy, 300 litre tank, i would of thought my jack dempsey 12″ inches would eat the guppy and the tiger barb as they tiny compared to it, but it hasnt even touched them, i feed it worms and larve, anyone got any ideas on how to get it eating other fish lol??

That depends. One jack dempsey on its own will require aboutt 50 gallons of territory space at the leasst. So if you have about 100 gallons of water, it should work well enough. Some are aggressive and some are not, so you must be careful when you put two of the same types of fish together. Watch both of them for a few hours and for a few days to see whether they fight or not. If they do fight, you should take out the fish thats being beaten to a pulp and put it in another tank.

how long did it take for ur jd’s to get that big

can you put more then 1 jack dempsey in same tank???????????

hmm i would suggest other ciclids such as fire mouths, convicts ciclids, texas cicild and oscar. other fish that it wont eat or bully really.

Its is a ID Shark. Yss they are a form of catfish. I made the mistake in getting 2 of these fish they really shouldn’t be housed in aquaria due to the fact they grow to 4ft or 36″

i love your tank man thats so cool

What kind of fish is the other one? Some kind of shark cat?

My Jack Dempsey’s always hiding how did you get yours to be so outgoing

ive got a tiger oscar livein with my electric blue and yellow

better get the phone, the matrix is calling

these guys could be put with oscar fish you know?

can i fit a jd in a 40 breeder tank if so what other fish can it be with?

they get somewhere around 10 inches i think…

how big do jd’s get? im thinkin of getting some 4 my 220g tank

i have 2 jacks in a 55 gallon

Those Jacks are huuuge

uhh i have 2 jack dempsies in my tank with 4 other mbuna cichlids, he doesnt seem to be aggresive but should i be worried because the jack dempsies are fairly bigger then the other cichlids

yes. My jacks prefer the freeze dried tubifex cubes more then the frozen tubifex and bloodworm cubes though.

pangasius catfish

eh what is that shark looking fishes name?