My 2 New Additions.....

[guppy_man]

hi, ive recently bought a pair of juvinile german blue rams, i had a look at them in tha car on the way home and thought that their colour was faded because they were stressed, so when i got home i turned the lights off and floated the bag in the tank for a good 40-50 mins.

they have been in the tank for over an hour now, and 1 of them has coloured up very nicely, the other 1 has not, its still faded, do you think its something to do with age, because they are only around 3cm, maybe the one is a little older? i took a few pics with my camera phone, you can see the difference in colour anyone know whats wrong?

ram coloured up

faded ram

any help would be great

 

[guppy_man]

anyone plz?

 

[caino]

try new world cichlids..

 

[Rhiannon]

When I brought my blue rams, I was at the LFS and they were so colourful, the minute he put the net in there they all went grey due to the stress and being scared.

It took them a good 3 days to colour up and now its been months and my boy (the surviving one) has amazing colours.

 

[Castellop123]

c... )

 

[Katchan]

OK, I'd be a Little worried, the stressed rams looks emanicpated(sp?), with asunken belly and therefore on the unhealthy side of things, we'll presume that its just from stress and not doing well in the shop tank, if you can provide as lease stressful envioroment as posssible for the next few days and pump as much food as possible into it, eg instead of 1-2 good feeds a day, try to make sure it gets 3-4 smaller feeds actually making sure this guy is feeding, if it doesnt feed then you have larger problems eg-possible to stressed/sick to recover or maybe an illness of some kind.

Offer it a bit of food every hour for the next few hours, if its eats slacken off to the 3-4 feeds a day if it doesnt eat within 12-24 hours I'd try posting in the emergency section

HTH

Andrew

PS with all the extra feeds try not to pollute the water to much

 

[NEONCORY]

I second with Katchan. The second fish does not look the healthiest. I say you better keep special eyes on them. Especially you should make sure the fish is eating so it can recover. It has sunken stomech and looks weaker. Hopefully, it will eat well at your home in new environment and get healthier.

 

[cheesy feet]

Yes it has a sunken stomach maybe from lack of feeding or something else.Get some melafax/melafix?(can't find bottle at mo)Cures loads of stress problems, parasites & cuts.Methylyne blue always is the best though!you want to see your pretty fishys though ...

 

[DarkEntity]

Inturned stomach usually is the sign of an internal parasite. feed that fish in particular and watch its stomach, if it fills out nicely, come back a couple of hours later and check to see if its the same or has gone back to the inturned stomach in the piccy. If so id start looking at treatments for parasites.

Ps

Melafix isnt really good enough for internal parasites, its more an external general med.