DavidAl
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Regular rams, Mikrogeophagus ramirezi.
David
David
I was wondering If I could possible divide 1/4 of the tank off with a divider and have the rams on the larger side and some fry on the other side? Since my nursery is already a little overstocked .
Are you talking about the fry from the rams? You don't need to separate them. The male and female will take care of the fry.
Fry from other fish? You can try keeping them in the same tank and let nature take its course. Don't put any dividers in the 10-gallon; it's small enough as it is.
David
I'm thinking electric blue rams. I've heard there sensitive to water conditions , but mine are stable.
Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 0ppm
Ph 7.2
I might need to get my ph down a little bit, and my tank has been established for a year now.
What temperature water do they like. Mine 80 degrees at the moment but I can lower
You don't need to do anything, the rams will take care of their own fry. They might have to learn to be good parents, so they may have a few runs at it before they're successful at raising their fry.
David
Most cichlids, if not all, provide some form of brood care, and they're not the only fish family that does so. It is indeed interesting to watch.
Good luck.
David
I wouldn't do Cory's, even though you say something needs to clean up, they need 4+ in their shoals. Your other fish should pick up sunken food anyway and a gravel vac should be used for poop. Everything else sounds fine to me though, as long as you have a backup plan for your betta but you already know about that. Make sure you supplement your plecos food too. Those plants should all do fine, what's your lighting?Okay so after multiple hours of thinking , I've decided I'm going to thin out my stock in the 26 gallon and just add the rams to that tank because I have no patients lol.
I'm going to redo my aqua scape over the next 2-3 weeks and eventually add the two rams and up my school of neons. I'm also going to try and give away the two lone tetras if possible.
I want to take out all my fake plants and ornaments, switch my gravel to Eco complete, and add a piece of driftwood.
My plant Stock would possibly be
Java fern
Water sprite
Amazon swords
Moss ball
Brazilian pennywort
The stock in my 26 will be
2 German blue rams
5 neon tetras
2 Cory's ( I know I shouldn't but something has to clean the bottom up)
1 albino pleco
1 dwarf gourami
1 male veiltail betta
A few mystery snails
How does this sound
I wouldn't do Cory's, even though you say something needs to clean up, they need 4+ in their shoals. Your other fish should pick up sunken food anyway and a gravel vac should be used for poop. Everything else sounds fine to me though, as long as you have a backup plan for your betta but you already know about that. Make sure you supplement your plecos food too. Those plants should all do fine, what's your lighting?
Yeah sounds good as long as you pay attention to the betta/gourami. And also, I think you could add 5 more neon tetras.
I'd swap. After seeing that its only 24 in. Long, definitely. For the bottom, you don't need fish. An d you could do 2 of 5 as long as the others are small. Harqualin rasboras, blak neons, glowlight tetras, and hatchetfish are a few
White clouds- yes
Cherry barbs-yes
Bleading heart- no, too big and active
Zebra danio yes
Harqualin rasbora. Yes
The white clouds I've read loose their colors at higher temps and thrive at 72 while the rams thrive at 78-80 so Mabye not them. Harqualin rasbora are great little guys!