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Old 03-02-2006, 02:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Just thought to share my rams with you, along with their babies. This couple has spawned five times since I have them. In the last two spawns, almost 100% of the eggs hatched. Unfortunatelly, fry with 8 days old from the first three spawns were eaten by the parents because the female was ready for another spawn. So, I never had fry with more than 8 days old.

This weekend, another spawn took place in my 180L tank. It is the fifth spawn. Eggs hatched and, again, almost 100% of them were fertile. Today is the fourth day of the fry and, to prevent anther infanticide from the parents, I went into the pharmacy and buyed a syringe, large enough in the opening for the fry to be sucked. It worked! I took all the fry from the parents nest and put them in a nursery with plenty of moss. By tomorrow, all the fry will be free swiming and the days that will follow, it will be time for me to feed them microworms and liquid food.

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This was in the 65L tank where the pair had three spawns. This batch of fry were killed by parents after two days.





Here are the pics taken today. Fry already in the nursery, still with the yolk sack attached.

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Vídeo - " Fry and Dad"

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( click the link ---> click where it says " free" in the giant board ----> wait until the countdown ends ----> insert the colourful code and click " Start download" )



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The Female

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Old 03-02-2006, 03:57 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Those photos are stunning. Beautiful fish. They really have excellent coloring. Good job and thanks for sharing!
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Beautiful male you have there! Finnage is amazing!
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Definitely nice coloring on the rams.
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Congratulations!

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Yes, absolutely beautiful rams!

What kind of lighting do you have in your tank? Their coloration shows so well.
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Very nice photography. I've tried many times to get a decent shot of my ram but I need a real camera to do it right.
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Yes, absolutely beautiful rams!

What kind of lighting do you have in your tank? Their coloration shows so well.
Hello.

The rams are in my 180L ADA tank with 4 X 55W PL: 2 X 10000K + 1 X 4000K + 1 X 6000K.

Thanks for the complimments. Baby rams are now in the nursery so I´ll let you know in a week how they are doing ( fingerscrossed for the fry to grow healty).

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What kind of diet are you planning on giving the fry?
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Hello.

I´m giving them liquid food from JBL with artemia. In a couple of days I intend to start a diet with microworms and continue the liquid food. I have tried to give them microworms already but they seem to be a bit bigger for their tiny mouth right now.
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