Electric Blue Jack Dempsey Questions

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They are hard to keep alive but not impossible. Sold all my breeders and fry yesterday to someone with a lot of cash in his pocket. Im out of the blue jack business.

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They are hard to keep alive when small. I went through 2 small frys. Until I drove 40min to a lfs that keeps there fish in tip top health. I finally took someone's advice on here raising my 3rd ebjd in a established 10 gallon all alone. So far so good. Out of the 3 that I have had this one is actually eating pellets. No sign of ick like my other 2 had. The other 2 I had were in a established 120 gallon with 3 tinfoil barbs, 3 diamond scale barbs, 1 midas/red devil, 1 Jack Dempsey, 1 rainbow shark. Both ebjd we're the king of the tank until my 2nd one lip locked with my midas/red devil. I separated the ebjd but he died a week later from stress I think.

Now my 3rd is doing well isolated in a 10 gallon until he gets 2-3'. Hopefully this one pans out to be great.

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I got 5 of them and started them in a 20 gallon with uv. Then when they got bigger moved them to a 55 gallon with uv. Now the 2 biggest ones are in my 125 gallon community tank and the 3 last ones will be ready for the 125 gallon in a week or to :cool:
Had no problem with them. Raised them on flakes. Live black worms. Frozen bloodworms and pellets. Alle doing fine and grow perfectly ;)

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My electric blues are pretty tough. The tempeture is around 75, I have been slacking on water changes, I had a broken filter for a few weeks, I feed live blackworms, mixed frozen foods, hakari pellets and they survived over a week in a blackout were the tempeture dropped to about 45 degrees. I set the tank up next to an outlet that is controlled by the light switch. I run an extention cord which always gets knocked out.
 
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