Gender of my EBJD?

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Natural Born Chaos

Natural Born Chaos

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I'd like to get another one, I don't want breeding though so I'm hoping this is a female so I can get another. I'm pretty sure it is, but I wanted to check.

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Oh and yes it will be moved to a larger aquarium, this is just a grow out tank.

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yeah i agree with ^ . you could get another one i dont see why it would be a problem . its rare you get a breeding pair of ebjds , well atleast a successful breeding pair.
 
I was just getting back into the hobby and the EBJD's are on my radar. I wanted to purchase a group of about 12-babies and raise them together in a 125-gallon tank.

My question is, would I eventually have to start removing fish 1 after another as they grow into adults due to fighting?

In the past I always kept nice large fish, but only single fish per tanks so I never had to deal with fighting, but this time around I really want more then 1 fish in the 125-gallon that I am going to setup.
 
Looks female to me... The mouth size is quite telling. Unlike humans where the female of the species has the larger mouth!:ROFL:
 
Damon0306 said:
I was just getting back into the hobby and the EBJD's are on my radar. I wanted to purchase a group of about 12-babies and raise them together in a 125-gallon tank.

My question is, would I eventually have to start removing fish 1 after another as they grow into adults due to fighting?

In the past I always kept nice large fish, but only single fish per tanks so I never had to deal with fighting, but this time around I really want more then 1 fish in the 125-gallon that I am going to setup.
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Well you might have to deal with aggression once they pair up. I know I had to remove my oscar because my oscar one was trying to test it see if it was a suitable mate. Because of her mouth deformity it couldn't fight back so she ended up getting beaten half to death.

Once they pair up they'll start laying eggs and their aggression will start to increase so you would probably end up having one or two pairs for the tank. If you can try to just find females then it would probably work. Some people are able to have tanks of all male cichlids without problems, if there's no females then there's nothing to fight over other than territory. I did that with various types of SA/CA cichlids for my old boss a while ago and the tank is still up and doing well.
 
You'd be better off/more likely to find all males... but even if you have males and females, I don't see this being too big of a deal. I mean as they get older you MAY have to thin them out because they do still get fairly large, but they're less aggressive and also less likely to spawn, so who knows. I feel like if you do enough water changes and water maintanence you may be able to pull it off... I could be wrong though.
 
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