EBJD-Getting better or what? (When is madness getting his to breed?)

After adding my new Regani to my tank I thought how beautiful this iridescent fish looks and how awesome an EBJD would look in the tank.

A while back when I was at The Wet Spot in Portland they had a tank full of these little guys and the prices were under $20 for about 1.25" fish. I also had seen some slightly bigger ones in Sumner a while back too, though not that great a price. The thing Ive been noticing is a much better looking group of fish the stores are getting. Seems like for a while I was seeing tons of defects with funny beak mouths, spine curvature and all kind of misshapen fish. What Ive seen lately look very good.

That brings me to my next topic, when is madness going to get his EBJD project up and running?   

I think he is just slacking, house has been back up and running for a while.   

Thanks D, lol, all of them have been in the same tank since they were acquired. Just no activity from them. I actually have two of the blue gene Jacks wanting to pair up, but no BG and EB yet.

All I can say is, "patience my children, patience".

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Gorgeous...just gorgeous!

Was just joking about it all, I know its been a lot to get the place back together.   

Your Jack looks good. Cant wait to see them produce some fry.

Was just an interesting observation that the EBJD have been getting better looking lately.

I think the strains are getting stronger because the breeding is being done correctly.

Madness wrote:I think the strains are getting stronger because the breeding is being done correctly.  

I think so too. Used to be if you got an EBJD under an inch you would be fortunate to get it to adulthood and you pretty much had to raise it in a super clean environment with a UV attached to the filter. They are much healthier now.

Healthier, yes.
Harder to breed ... Yes
Still cool..... Even more!

DMD123 wrote:After adding my new Regani to my tank I thought how beautiful this iridescent fish looks and how awesome an EBJD would look in the tank.

A while back when I was at The Wet Spot in Portland they had a tank full of these little guys and the prices were under $20 for about 1.25" fish. I also had seen some slightly bigger ones in Sumner a while back too, though not that great a price. The thing Ive been noticing is a much better looking group of fish the stores are getting. Seems like for a while I was seeing tons of defects with funny beak mouths, spine curvature and all kind of misshapen fish. What Ive seen lately look very good.

That brings me to my next topic, when is madness going to get his EBJD project up and running?     

The Regani is a beautiful iridescent fish, no doubt, but some of them have quite the temperament. Even though they are the more docile of the Paraneetroplus species, they might be a little too aggressive for the EBJD. The Regani can grow to 14".

Here are my EBJDs and Platinum JDs fry.

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Drd62 wrote:The Regani is a beautiful iridescent fish, no doubt, but some of them have quite the temperament. Even though they are the more docile of the Paraneetroplus species, they might be a little too aggressive for the EBJD. The Regani can grow to 14".

The Regani is kept in check by the big Pearsei at the moment so its OK for now. Not showing any aggression yet toward the smaller red bay snook or the pleco and bichir. Before I got the regani I did a bit of reading and most said they were pretty easy going but one person absolutely had a killer that was uber-aggressive. On one of the forums the person actually described the Regani as having a JD personality, thus the possible idea of one in the tank. I still have the het's growing out which I will eventually add one to the 210g when it is big enough not to be snook food.

My goal is to try and have five cichlids in the tank, with my final stock to have: Pearsei x1, Regani x1, red Bay Snook x1, Heterospilus x1 and the last being either the red isletas I already have or something like the EBJD. The Isleats has pretty much proven itself not a good tankmate to the Regani so likely it will just be a solo wet pet for the 72g bowfront. Might possibly also consider something like a Robertsoni or Thorichthys pasionis.... but the EBJD was something I was just thinking about.

leisure_man very nice looking EBJD you got going there!

I currently have fry of both Electric blue and Electric pink Dempseys. My Blue gene male and gold blue gene female have laid 3 times and only this post third time did he fertilize them. I'll have many of both kinds available very shortly.

Blue gene male with gold blue gene female will only get you maximum 1/4 electric blue jds.  You need both with gold blue genes to get platinum jds (only 6.25%).