Blue Rams?

[jakester]

Hi, I am interested in breeding blue rams however my P.H is around 8. Would it still be possible to breed them or not.

Thanks Jakester.

 

[thegnu]

sorry Jakester, but i would say not. I think the pH would need to be preferably under 7 and the GH considerably lower than that. I breed my rams in ro water which is very soft with a pH of 6.4. ro units aren't very expensive but can be a pain to monitor so you have to think do you really want all the trouble to breed rams and all the work that it entails you have to be focused on it to work. could you be that committed?

 

[jakester]

Hi, thanks for your reply. In the pinned thread on rams it says that bolivian rams are more comfortable with a higher p.h. So do you think I would stand a good chance of breeding the bolivian ram with a p.h. of around 8.( it says in the pinned thread 7.6) Also would I be better off getting 6 young rams and letting them pair off. Or getting a male and a female and hoping they pair up. Thanks Jakester P.S. If anyone as ever bred bolivian rams in harder water(and a higher p.h. 7.5-8.5) then I would to hear about it, thanks again Jakester.

 

[Musho3210]

Hi, thanks for your reply. In the pinned thread on rams it says that bolivian rams are more comfortable with a higher p.h. So do you think I would stand a good chance of breeding the bolivian ram with a p.h. of around 8.( it says in the pinned thread 7.6) Also would I be better off getting 6 young rams and letting them pair off. Or getting a male and a female and hoping they pair up. Thanks Jakester P.S. If anyone as ever bred bolivian rams in harder water(and a higher p.h. 7.5-8.5) then I would to hear about it, thanks again Jakester.

other way around, bolivian rams like soft water with low ph but they are more hardy so you may have a better chance breeding in hard water with the bolivians. If you have good RO water it will be at 7.0 pm since it is pure water with a neutral ph. Problem is there is no KH or GH so tehre is nothing to keep it stable and it the ph may crash very quickly since there arent any buffers. You could try mixing 50% RO water with 50% tap water.