Blue Rams.

[jamie2010]

hello all.my little pair of rams seem to be courting.can somebody please confirn this,the male has what appears to be a sex organ potruding from near the anus,and the little female seems very aggressive towards my other fish.they are also flushed with colour and swimming flank on to each other.
any comments please
ta ,jamie.

 

[jamie2010]

just bumping this.you see i dont know if i need to move them.

 

[annka5]

Sounds like they could be. When mine had fry, they started digging "craters" in the sand substrate to lay the eggs in. Any sign of that sort of behaviour yet?

 

[jamie2010]

yeah they seem to be hanging by the og wood a lot and moving the gravel from around it.i also have a pair of nigerian red kribs,there semms to be some conflict going on now as they are both courting.
maybe i need to move one of the happy couples to another tank?

 

[Liam]

If they are hanging around in one place arranging and cleaning, they are getting ready to spawn, when they both clean together you can expect eggs, the females egg tube (ovipositor) usually shows a day or two before they actually spawn.

Yeah the kribs would probably be the strongest if there weren’t enough room for a territory each, depends on the size of the tank and where they choose to spawn. Kribs, at least the ones I kept could terrorise a four foot tank when breeding.