LauraFrog
Fish Gatherer
Rams = . I've loved them for years but never had any, they're on the list of fish that are not easy to find around here.
At the moment, I am setting up four tanks, about 13 gallons each. They all drain into a sump, so they're all sharing water. The main purpose of them is raising betta fry, but one tank is going to be a sorority and the other houses whatever I've got that won't go in a brackish tank. At the moment, that's eight female guppies. Could I have a pair of rams in said tank with eight female guppies and maybe one or two male guppies? Eating guppy fry is OK, if I miss the odd drop it won't kill me. I would really love to attempt breeding, as this is a difficult fish to find (and that's putting it lightly.)
I'm also setting up some tanks of the same size for the school. Students like their tanks full of fish. Bursting at the seams with fish. I'm being as reasonable as possible, but I am planning to overstock them by a considerable margin. The filtration is 10x/hour (currently fishless cycling) and the maintenance will be very good. If I just had a single ram in a quiet Amazon biotype tank, with some black neons, and neon tetras, and three paleatus corys, would I get away with it, or are they too sensitive for this setup? (I wouldn't try a pair, the tank is too overstocked for the breeding behavior of any cichlid.)
The only ones I've seen are in a tank at one of my least favourite pet stores, which is notorious for fish abuse. So the fact that they've survived a couple of weeks in there are making me doubt everything I've read about just how delicate they are. (This mob are utterly incapable of keeping most sensitive fish alive, they've tried to stock and killed discus, a few apistogramma species, some of the rarer tetras, bumblebee gobies, some interesting gouramis...) These were very small, about an inch long. How old do they have to be before you can tell if they're balloon? I'm not a fan of balloon fish and would rather not buy them.
Also, I can get bolivian butterflies for the school tank but I thought maybe not because they get even larger. Again, it would be a single one... opinions?
Thanks in advance!
At the moment, I am setting up four tanks, about 13 gallons each. They all drain into a sump, so they're all sharing water. The main purpose of them is raising betta fry, but one tank is going to be a sorority and the other houses whatever I've got that won't go in a brackish tank. At the moment, that's eight female guppies. Could I have a pair of rams in said tank with eight female guppies and maybe one or two male guppies? Eating guppy fry is OK, if I miss the odd drop it won't kill me. I would really love to attempt breeding, as this is a difficult fish to find (and that's putting it lightly.)
I'm also setting up some tanks of the same size for the school. Students like their tanks full of fish. Bursting at the seams with fish. I'm being as reasonable as possible, but I am planning to overstock them by a considerable margin. The filtration is 10x/hour (currently fishless cycling) and the maintenance will be very good. If I just had a single ram in a quiet Amazon biotype tank, with some black neons, and neon tetras, and three paleatus corys, would I get away with it, or are they too sensitive for this setup? (I wouldn't try a pair, the tank is too overstocked for the breeding behavior of any cichlid.)
The only ones I've seen are in a tank at one of my least favourite pet stores, which is notorious for fish abuse. So the fact that they've survived a couple of weeks in there are making me doubt everything I've read about just how delicate they are. (This mob are utterly incapable of keeping most sensitive fish alive, they've tried to stock and killed discus, a few apistogramma species, some of the rarer tetras, bumblebee gobies, some interesting gouramis...) These were very small, about an inch long. How old do they have to be before you can tell if they're balloon? I'm not a fan of balloon fish and would rather not buy them.
Also, I can get bolivian butterflies for the school tank but I thought maybe not because they get even larger. Again, it would be a single one... opinions?
Thanks in advance!