7 years is very good for an EBJD. They have numerous troubles with growing to adulthood, and they are incredibly deilcate and are actually nothing like a normal jack dempsey. I have done a lot of reading up on them and often you fail with them before you finally get one that makes it. My last one was very very scared all the time, only lasted a few days. This one was my free replacement, (actually though the previous one was gifted for $5 from our supplier to me and they were still nice enough to replace) he is bigger, not shy, and he's got a great appetite. Before 3 inches in length they are known to spontaneously stop eating and drop dead. Mine is pretty outgoing so I think he's going to grow up big and strong. They are sterile when bred to one another so to get more EBJD's you have to breed one with a het for the gene. His tank mates are an albino polypterus senegalus, a featherfin catfish, a hujeta and a dragon goby!

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