Well, here's my ram story...
I went to my
LFS last week to pick up some blue rams for the planted 55 gallon tank I've been telling you guys about that I keep at work. They had a bunch of them, but they had not come out of quarantine yet as they had only been at the store for 5 days at that point. I didn't get any blues, but I got 2 gold rams instead (They are a color variant of the blue ram, for those who didn't know, and I'm still going to add 2 blues later). I didn't know if they would make it since I've heard they are even more unforgiving than the blues, but I thought I'd give them a try. They had been at the
LFS for 3 weeks already and seemed very healthy. I bought them and took them back to work, and something came up unexpectedly while their bag was floating in the tank and I wasn't able to acclimate them the way I wanted to. The bag floated in the tank for over 3 hours before I could even get any of the new water in there. Finally I was able to actually acclimate them, and by the time I let them out into the tank they had been in the bag for over 4 hours. 8O I wondered if they would make it through the night, they must have been so stressed. Later that afternoon I fed the tank and to my surprise the gold rams began eating immediately.
They were very active and eagerly staking out their new territory. It's been 8 days now and they are still eating like pigs, and they even fight sometimes.
After reading all these other stories I'm really interested to see if they make it past the 4 week mark, but so far so good.
In case you are interested, perams are:
pH 7.0
ammonia=0
nitrite=0
nitrate=10
and tankmates are 6 juvie angels, 6 flame tetras, and 10 green fire tetras. The tank is 55 gallons and moderately planted, with driftwood and sandstone caves.