If I Were To Get Rams

[joshjames]

if i were to get rams for my current stocking in my 75 gallon how many would you reccomend??? 3-4 and wait for a pair or just one
im going LFS in about 30 mins so a bit of help please

 

[bagu]

id say a pair mate!

sorry if its late =/

 

[meguro]

I'd say 4-5 and not bother with removing the "spares".

 

[joshjames]

bit late guys but dont worry went and at least 2 rams in every tank were dead which i was surprised at because it is usually i great shop and not one fish i have bought from there has died
BUT i got a healthy looking Festivum which is aclimatising so pics up soon

 

[bagu]

bit late guys but dont worry went and at least 2 rams in every tank were dead which i was surprised at because it is usually i great shop and not one fish i have bought from there has died
BUT i got a healthy looking Festivum which is aclimatising so pics up soon

okay mate =] cant wait

 

[nmonks]

You don't want ram cichlids -- Mikrogeophagus ramirezi, at least -- in your 75 gallon tank. Rams need very soft, very warm water, and not all of your fish will appreciate that. Corydoras will boil at the 30 degrees C that rams need, and platies will simply keel over and die if faced with water with less than 5 degrees hardness, as you need for rams. In conditions that don't suit them, rams are notoriously disease-prone, and a lot of the fish sold are "juiced" with hormones and antibiotics anyway. So as soon as they leave the breeder, they start dying by inches...

By all means get Bolivian rams -- Mikrogeophagus altispinosus -- but a better waste of money I cannot name than buying generic rams for a community tank.

Cheers, Neale

 

[joshjames]

thanks i didnt no that
thank god i went for the festivum instead then

 

[begainnerfish]

thanks i didnt no that
thank god i went for the festivum instead then

i had a Festivum it was eating all my plants so i took him back when i took he back the bloke said what have you been feeding him i said what you mean he said you got him 2 weeks ago and hes already 2 times bigger than the 1s in my fish tank i said hes been eating my plants thats what he s been eating lol