I have a roughly two and a half inch ebjd in a 30 gallon tank. He has no other fish that will bother him in there. Just some loachesl oach tetras and catfish that kind their own business. He had stringy white poop and would shimy and shake like 8 to ten times. I used some prazi pro and he is good and healthy now and popping healthy. I've had him for 50 days today and he's grown maybe half an inch. I had the water at 84 degrees by mistake and didn't know this until I put a thermometer in. Apparently you can't always go by what you have the thermometer set to... Anyway, I'm thinking about growing him another 4 months with the goal of 4 inches long Aug 1. Today is April first. So anyway, the thing that surprisingly is not addressed often in people talking about the ebjd growth speed, is increasing temps to speed the fish grown. Now my larger 90 gallon is my American ciclid tank. I'm waiting for the ebjd to get to about 4 inches before I see him with the chocolate ciclid and the green terror in the 90. I want to decrease the temp to 80 in the 90 gallon. It is currently 86, didn't know this till now. The fish are happy, Healy and beautiful...I want to turn this to 80 and I'm wondering what people opinions are on this... Running the 90 gallon at 80 degrees while having the 30 gallon at 84 degrees to speed up the ebjd while keeping the 90 degree slowed down so they are closer to the same size in 4 months. So in doing this, hop warm could I have the water in the 30 gallon to grow the ebjd to his fastest possible speed? I'm thinking 86 could be done, nob maybe risky. He was gone at 84 and I may increase to that. Anyone have any experience or know what an ebjd can handle for a few months of higher temps and not cause ill Heath?
