New EBJD breeding project..... advice please

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If you are looking to make money selling ebjd you have bred be prepared to grow them out well into the 2-3" size range. Fry and smaller growouts sell for $5-$15 a piece but if you can grow them and they prove to be quality fish you can definitely charge more.
 
a lfs in my area said they would give me at least $10 for 1 inch fry. i was thinking of selling half or a little more to them and growing out the rest to at least 3inches and selling them privatly for a bit more
 
I bread ebjd for 2 years and I quit after about 25 batches. These fish take alot of time, are very fragile and can get very disapointing when you loose a full batch or get internal parisites which is likely to happen. With that said I hava bread about 40 fish since and they were by far my favorate. And made a few bucks doing it to.

Heres a few tips:

Never feed blood worms live or frozen. In my exsperiance even hikari bio-pure worms contain pariaites or weakn the immune system some how. I have lost many fish from that. I did tests 3 times and all confirmed after feeding worms to a whole group I would loose all in a weeks time.

Also when you do get internal paresites (white poop, hideing, not eating and lazy). turn your water up to 87 and buy jungle parasite clear as directed until they eat.

I.never had a pair of ebjdxbgjd that I didnt get to pair up and spawn so it shouldnt be to hard. If you do have a hard time I would try pairing up a bgjdxbgjd and use them, I had up to 40% ebjd batches from a few pairs like that.

Another tip, make sure your ebjd is the boss and.not getting beat up or their immune systems get weak and they die soon.

Good luck my friend!
 
thank you very much! right now my eb is in a my 55 with 2 cory cats and a royal pleco who is only 2 inches so he is definitly the boss and his poop is a shade of red. he doesnt eat bloodworms. he does eat frozen beefheart and cichlid delight and the new life spectrum pellet formula. i need to find a new life spectrum that makes a little larger pellet because he seems to go only for large peices of food like shrimp pellets which i give him for a treat
 
You really want to do this right Get true wild JDs breed until you get a pair with the genes that will give EBJD,s and then have at it. This breed is far to inbreed and weak because of it

Beautiful fish but alot of work
 
ya i got a little lost there too. in my breeding tank what other fish can i keep that will not hinder the breeding process?
 
I can't really recommend any fish to add. Most anything will try for the eggs and then fry. If your pair end up becoming aggressive towards each other you can add a small dither fish to help strengthen the pairs bond and take the heat off the less aggressive jd.
 
pleco broski said:
Hi all,

Im interested in attempting to breed my male ebjd with a bg jack. I am not looking to get rich, just off set some of the money i spend in the hobby and probably have some fun during the process. i have a 90 and a 55 gallon tank set up and a 40 gallon to be set up soon. My male is about 3 inches. so here is where my questions begin...

at what size is will my ebjd become sexually mature??

Where can i get some blue gene females? preferably from a reputable breeder?

and lastly, any advice anyone has to help me out anywhere in this process will be greatly appreciated.

thank you for reading
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They mature at 3 inches.
You can get a blue gene female at a LFS, or ask them to order one for you.
Breed them in the 90, take the fry put them in the 55. Buy a sponge filter for your 55 and then buy some flakes(Crushed), and newly hatched brine shrimp.
Good Luck update us.
 
I would never trust getting a BGJD from a lfs unless they know the breeder. People lie all the time for the higher profit margin that can be made off of a BGJD. There are still people who think that a JD with a good amount of blue spangles must be BGJD. I just would not trust it. There are people on aquabid with videos of the parents and offspring that are more reliable.
 
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