houseofcards

Thanks,

I had a similiar situation with my bolivian rams in my tank. They spawned twice so far. The first time about 100 fry did hatch and the babies were well protected by the mother, but my school of cardinals kept picking them off. I did remove some to a smaller tank, but non survived more than one week. I was feeding Hikairi Fry Food.

mshaughnessy

those are nice fish. How hard is your water and what is the pH? I had a pair of rams in a 55 gal planted tank just die. Are they very sensitive? Thanks

houseofcards

The bolivians are quite hardy. My water parameters are:

kh 3
ph 6.2 to 6.4

FazTeAoMar

Rams are as sensitive as other fish.

The first thing to do is to get good individuals with strong defenses and good genes. That is the most difficult part. Here in Portugal we have all kinds of rams that come from different breeders, though I only trust in one breeder that is German wich is where my pair came from.

Second thing to do is to feed the fishes very well. At least 2 times/day so they can grow strong, with good colours and confident behaviour. My rams let me touch them and are fed in my hand. The result is shown in the pictures.

Right now i´m having another batch of fry wich are in their third day. In 2/3 days, they will be free swimming.

I started to breed rams in a 65L tank with:

pH = 6
gH = 7
Temp = 26ºC

Since I have them in my 180L tank, my water parameters are:

pH = 7
gH = 14
Temp = 25ºC

This is my second spawn in this tank and the eggs are almost 100% sucessfully fertilized. Pictures of the fry coming soon.

Regards

HydroBot

Great work! Beautiful photos, I would love too see an update.

FazTeAoMar

Hello.

Fry have 20 days old. Here are some pics taken yesterday:







Don´t have a macro lens so its hard to take pics of something that small.


André

Raul-7

While we are on the topic of eggs and Rams, just last night this happened.



Sorry for the quality, the male won't stop moving!

jower

Had to post a pic of my rams too...

sorry for pic quality...

fredyk

I had a fabulous pair that was spawning a couple years ago. The tank had gone to green water, and I was leaving for vacation so no hope for pampering the fry. And I got a new cannister filter to fix all the water problems. Anyway, the parents and fry were in the back, and so I said to the mother, "come here and show me the fry". So what do you think happened? The mother and father brought the frys out of the green background into the foreground for a sneak preview. Unfortunately, the fry didn't grow out in the new setup.

Mark

ChrisGray

those are by far the best looking rams i have ever seen