Need As Much Advice As Possible

[Ace Of Spades]

Well basically, My 4 foot, 44 Gallon fish tank is empty at the moment, and will be filling it up shortly when the sand arrives.

But my dad wants me to grow him out a EBJD in the tank to a safe size, so he can put it in his Juwel Vision 450

Basically I need help with keeping them as I heard they are sensitive.

Until I sell my mbuna, I will only have a tetratec EX600 on this tank, really mature (about 4/5 months). Will this be enough filtration for just this one fish, he is only around 2/3" and wont be in there forever, month tops hopefully.

Has anyone got any experiences in keeping these fish?

 

[duncs]

I currently have 6 juvi EBJDs.

Don't worry mate - they're not THAT sensitive.

Basically, when they're really small (i.e. <1"), they're at their weakest. The EBJD is the same fish as the JD (according to mitochondrial DNA testing) but it is believed that in the wild the blue JD fry don't survive because they're not strong enough - the recessive blue gene makes them weaker and more vulnerable at that size. Once they're past that though - tbh, once they're in the shops, they're not that much more sensitive than normal JDs.

Treat them as you would any other fish - keep the water quality high with weekly partial water changes (I do about 30% every week) and feed them regularly. With two feeds a day of frozen food mine have put on an inch in three weeks.

Oh, quick edit.. one thing that I've just noticed - is the tank new? Make sure you're using mature filter media, otherwise you will have problems. I wouldn't risk keeping EBJDs in a new tank tbh, and would never keep any fishes in an uncycled tank. If you've got mature filter media from another tank it's less of a prob but I'd maybe do two water changes per week rather than one for the first month.

Hope that helps