Aggressive blue ram

[Daniela]

Hi I have a aqua one 620 tank. It is a 90L tank. I have recently added 2 blue rams 1 male 1 female 2 gold rams 1 male 1 female and a gold balloon ram. My male blue ram is constantly chasing all the other rams quite aggressively. All accept the female blue ram. I don't know what to do or if I should remove him. The tank is planted and has lots of hiding spots for the fish but it seems he is territorial about the whole tank. I purchased these fish as everything I have read says that they are not aggressive. Does anyone have any advice? ?

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[Mebbid]

This is normal behavior. Theres not much you can do to fix it other than rehome one of the pairs of rams.

 

[Daniela]

Would you recommend that I do so or will they be ok together?

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[Daniela]

He doesn't physically harm them but I guess it would be stressful on the other fish. Will he possibly calm down eventually? I have only had them for a week.

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[Mebbid]

He doesn't physically harm them but I guess it would be stressful on the other fish. Will he possibly calm down eventually? I have only had them for a week.

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It's stressful for every fish involved and that is a harm because stress can easily lead to disease.

As to him calming down, I would confidently bet money that he won't; especially if he tries to breed with the female. That tank just isn't large enough and indeed even in larger tanks it's usually only 1 pair allowed. One member here had a 200gish tank that she tried to put 4 pairs of rams in. It ended up down to just one pair in the end because of aggression.

It's a natural behavior for them, it's his territory and he wants the other rams out of it.

 

[IllusionX]

I have a 65g we have 2 males GBR, 6 female GBR and 2 balloon female.

Prior adding all the females, we had 4 pairs (2 GBR pairs, 1 electric blue pair, 1 balloon pair) and the were very territorial that the rest wouldn't eat and died off within a week in the tank except 2 GBR males.

 

[candymancan]

Get a bigger tank to spread aggression.. The smaller your tank the more aggressive the fish will be because of lack of space for territory. Add more hiding places