First ebjd

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follen

follen

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Just picked up A little guy at about 1.5" been after one for sometime but never can find ones which show good quality but I think this guy should be A good specimen. Still very skittish what's there growth like, he's in a 30 g with some loaches and plecs for the moment.


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Overall their growth is a little slower than regular JD. One of the keys is high protein. I feed mine a variety of NLS 1.0 mm, NLS flake and frozen brine. I also feed mine ocassionally beef heart flakes but many don't recommend it. I have 3 that were about 1 inch when I got them on Jan 4th. My smallest now is about 3 inches and the largest is about 4 1/4 inches.
 
He's already scoffing hikari sinking pellets, was thinking of maybe adding a normal jd around the same size to help him to settle but he seems fine. Do you have any pics of yours from when they were small to now.


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follen said:
He's already scoffing hikari sinking pellets, was thinking of maybe adding a normal jd around the same size to help him to settle but he seems fine. Do you have any pics of yours from when they were small to now.


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Regular JDs grow faster than EBJDs and adding one the same size as your EBJD could result in the EBJD being picked on and becoming very shy. I would wait to add a JD of 2" until your EBJD is 5".


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Ye don't want to stress the little guy out, mite just keep him solo for now. He's having a good time chasing the little loaches around.


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They can get stressted easily. Thats probably a good idea. I started with 3 EBJD and and 8 BGJD. The EBJD was slightly larger when I bought them. Ive had them for 6 months and have put most of the BGJD in another tank and took the smaller 2 EBJD in a community tank of non agressive fish. Anyway I have a blog I made on keeping them. It's not been updated lately buy have a lot of info on there. My biggest EBJD is over 4 inches now.

http://www.etnac.com/jack.htm
 
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