yay for new plants.

[harmy4993]

well i got new plants and my aquarium is starting to look like a planted aquarium. my photography skills need some work but i love my tank.

full tank #1

Full tank #2

my 2 rams cause they never get in the picture together

my female cause she is camera shy

 

[harmy4993]

and yes i know my glass needs cleaning bad. sundays are cleaning day.

 

[An t-iasg]

The tank is off to a great start! You've got a good mix of colors and shapes to make it interesting!

 

[harmy4993]

ty. im happy with it. starting to look more like i invisioned when i got my tank.

 

[neilanh]

Going to look good when it fills in a little more.

Not that it doesn't look good now, but you know what I mean.

 

[harmy4993]

ya i think once the ones in the back grow taller and the java ferns fill in along with the grass in the front it will really look nice.

 

[mlennox]

tank looks fantastic

 

[Menagerie]

Great tank shots and lovely plants!!

 

[harmy4993]

ty. looked better then, then it does now.

 

[Zagz]

Looking great! It is exciting when you start getting the vision that was in your mind in your tank isn't it?

 

[brutus]

now thats looking like a planted tank nice work

 

[bs6749]

Nice tank but you have two male rams and not a sexed pair. The female is supposed to be the one on the right in the pic with them both together correct? The middle one is blurry and dosn't show the profile well but I don't see any pink at all. Plus, females are shorter than males and the one on the right in the top pic is just as long as the male.

 

[harmy4993]

Nice tank but you have two male rams and not a sexed pair. The female is supposed to be the one on the right in the pic with them both together correct? The middle one is blurry and dosn't show the profile well but I don't see any pink at all. Plus, females are shorter than males and the one on the right in the top pic is just as long as the male.

i dunno i was guessing after doing some reading. i didnt say they were a mated pair but the coloring of the 2 is slightly diffrent. but the main thing i was going off of is the rear fin. i read males have a v shape where the females have a more curved shape. thats all i have to go on.

 

[bs6749]

i dunno i was guessing after doing some reading. i didnt say they were a mated pair but the coloring of the 2 is slightly diffrent. but the main thing i was going off of is the rear fin. i read males have a v shape where the females have a more curved shape. thats all i have to go on.

I know that you didn't say that they were a mated pair but you did say that one was a female and that would indicate that they are a "sexed pair" meaning that you have a pair...one of each sex. You have a pair (meaning only the number two in this case) of rams but they are both males. With Microgeophagus ramirezi you look at the dorsal fin, size, breeding tubes, and most importantly and most obvious...color. Females have a pink belly which gets much more robust when she is ready to mate. It's clear to me that neither of those rams are females.

What do you mean by the rear fin? The tail fin? There is no difference between males and females in rams. Plus, you have a long finned ram male on the left in the top picture and are comparing it to a regular finned ram male on the left in the same photo.

 

[harmy4993]

ahhh that would explain the diffrence. i was going by that diffrence in the rear fin to assume one was male and one was female.

 

[justsomedude89]

heres 2 of my GBR's to show the difference.

Male:

Female:

 

[jrp1588]

I wish I had a good source of GBR's around here. Only one LFS carries them, and most of the time they have ich, they all look poor quality anyway.

 

[justsomedude89]

my lfs got a nice shipment recently...they were bred in a higher ph and harder water that my county is known for so they are very adadt to conditions outsider their norm...im going to try my hand at breeding them...

 

[mlennox]

tank looks fantastic nice work!