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There's no guarantee but you can try. I would do extensive research on this fish before you purchase. Your best chance to prevent bloat would be to house it solo , keep it stress free, give it impeccable water conditions, maintain a vigorous wc schedule, proper diet and to learn. As much about the fish as you can. Read read read

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MajesticMatt said:
Oh ok cool, is there anything I can do to prevent the bloat?


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Epsom salt helps with bloat just soak pellets for a few minutes with Epsom salt and feed it to them. My young Cubans had bloat treated them with Epsom salt for 3 days and 50% water change and 3 out of 4 survived

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fernie831 said:
Epsom salt helps with bloat just soak pellets for a few minutes with Epsom salt and feed it to them. My young Cubans had bloat treated them with Epsom salt for 3 days and 50% water change and 3 out of 4 survived

they wanted to know how prevent bloat not treat it since we were talking about the beani cichlid which is extremely prone to bloat.i always thought epsom salt treatment for bloat was 5 days but maybe I'm wrong.

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Beani are sensative fish. If your going 125 gal = jag, bocourti, pearsei, vieja synspillum, vieja argentea,

Pearsei are just as personable as oscars and better looking imo. Also get huge fast

Dont do ebjd with an oscar. They grow really slow oscars grow fast unless you get an adult ebjd i wouldnt do it.

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jaws7777 said:
Dont do ebjd with an oscar. They grow really slow oscars grow fast unless you get an adult ebjd i wouldnt do it.
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This is more of a myth surrounding Oscars, or really an overblown half-fact. Either way, its not a major problem, its not like the oscar is going to magically quadruple overnight and have the ebjd for breakfast. And its not hard to start with a smaller oscar and organize feeding around the ebjd so that he eats more than the smaller oscar and...its really self explanatory, its not a big issue and easily dealt with, and certainly no reason not to enjoy those two compatible and complimentary fish together.
 
MajesticMatt said:
Oh cool, I just looked it up. Is it basically the same as a tiger Oscar? And where could I find one?
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Well theyre more like a red oscar really, only instead of the red coloring, theyre literally golden instead. And its a beautiful yellow sheen of gold, not orange like a goldfish. Theyre incredibly beautiful, but the second part of your question is the hard part - theyre very rare. I only saw my first two months ago and Im kicking myself for not buying him, as he was a primo oscar anyway, perfectly shaped and fat. I heard from the lfs staff that a lady bought him to put in a 55 gallon full of feeders, like a full tank of goldfish, around 50-75 I'm told...
 
Oscarum monstruoso said:
This is more of a myth surrounding Oscars, or really an overblown half-fact. Either way, its not a major problem, its not like the oscar is going to magically quadruple overnight and have the ebjd for breakfast. And its not hard to start with a smaller oscar and organize feeding around the ebjd so that he eats more than the smaller oscar and...its really self explanatory, its not a big issue and easily dealt with, and certainly no reason not to enjoy those two compatible and complimentary fish together.
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I have never kept ebjds but at a time i was into them and from everything that i read they are slow grower and not hardy also remember reading that they do better in colder water when small.

Oscar growth rates are not a myth or half fact. They grow fast which isnt a knock on the fish. different species grow at different rates from fish i have kept oscars and pearsei are the fastest growers i have experience with. Reg jd's, some viejas, and acaras are some that ive kept that were much slower in growth rates.

I just think that the ebjd wouldnt be able to compete for his share of food. I would just get a reg jd

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I got a few EBJD I got right at 01/01/15 @ 1" size...close to 5 months later the biggest one around 3.5" and all others are 2.5" some are smaller, so if you get 2" Oscar and after 5 months it will likely hit 6 or 7+ inches. It doesn't matter how you try to organize feeding between them the Oscar will out grow EBJD like nothing....
 
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