EBJD survival rate

[Snowflake311]

My ebjd grow up in a 55 gal then 80 gal and now 100gal. He was always with other fish too.

 

[bbortko]

Mine was always in my 125, was with full grown geo sp rio tapajos and is with a nic now

 

[Cohazard]

When I was looking for EBJD a couple weeks ago, I remembered that one of my LFS had some a few months back so I decided to go check them out.

I was surprised that they still had 3 or 4 baby EBJD from that same batch, and they were exactly the same size, just darker blue. Their eyes had deformities either from fighting or bad water quality.

Those fish would be stunted and possibly never grow, so I didn't buy them.

You never know how long fish have been at the LFS unless you check their stock frequently, otherwise it's a crapshoot, and my guess is that majority of the stunted deformed EBJD are from stock that has been 'on the shelf' too long.

Anyways, the guy in my avatar, it took two years for him to get that size.

I had two, but the other one died, no obvious reason, possibly bullying, or disease from feeding live black worms.

In the end, that big male was 8" when he was killed by an 8" Gold Saum

 

[McPhishy]

I started out with 3x 3" guys. Two of them died of parasites (what a surprise), and the third one was a beak face who stopped growing at 4" and eventually sold him.

 

[Gatorxxx420]

I've had 3 and of the 3, 2 have died. My 3rd one is about 6.5"s now and seems to keep pace with my regular male Dempsey as far as growth goes.

 

[Paintguy]

I got two of these at about 1.5 inches. Growing very slowly though...2 months has only gotten them about a 1/4 longer. Happy that they have amazing color compared to many I've seen.

50gal

 

[glenbo]

My first one, and only one, is bordering 4" now and is very aggressive