In this November 2019 video you can see our only jur doing very well. In fact it has been doing beyond excellent for a long time and since that video too...
... until I decided to try and give it more room in the "peaceful" 4500 gal. In that tank it got almost eaten alive over a couple of days mostly by a pack of our 5 vulture catfish. These guys sense any tank mate in distress and attack them. This is after I pulled the jur out of the 4500 gal just in the nick of time as it was on the death's door from stress and injuries:
It had gone on a fast for a few months after that and lost significant weight but about a month ago to my utter happiness it started feeding well again. Its mangled fins haven't grown back to their normal prior shapes but all healed up.
About 2 weeks ago I finally finished an 1800 gal tank and decided again to do better by the jur and try giving it a bigger home, this time peaceful, again. You can catch this moment in this long video around 19:05 minutes.
This was the last time it was alive and well. It stiffened up bit by bit and passed away a few hours later, just from being transferred into this new tank. No one so much as touched it. The water is the same too. It literally was the last straw, the last bit of stress, that broke the camel's back. This was a novel experience for me. Never happened before but clearly even a bit of stress can kill quickly and efficiently even after about 5-6 months after a fish survives a major stressful experience.
24" (if the tail was intact) at 5 years old:
... until I decided to try and give it more room in the "peaceful" 4500 gal. In that tank it got almost eaten alive over a couple of days mostly by a pack of our 5 vulture catfish. These guys sense any tank mate in distress and attack them. This is after I pulled the jur out of the 4500 gal just in the nick of time as it was on the death's door from stress and injuries:
It had gone on a fast for a few months after that and lost significant weight but about a month ago to my utter happiness it started feeding well again. Its mangled fins haven't grown back to their normal prior shapes but all healed up.
About 2 weeks ago I finally finished an 1800 gal tank and decided again to do better by the jur and try giving it a bigger home, this time peaceful, again. You can catch this moment in this long video around 19:05 minutes.
This was the last time it was alive and well. It stiffened up bit by bit and passed away a few hours later, just from being transferred into this new tank. No one so much as touched it. The water is the same too. It literally was the last straw, the last bit of stress, that broke the camel's back. This was a novel experience for me. Never happened before but clearly even a bit of stress can kill quickly and efficiently even after about 5-6 months after a fish survives a major stressful experience.
24" (if the tail was intact) at 5 years old:
