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Hello everyone,
Not exactly apistogramma...but close enough I
hope...
I've been 'playing around' with gold rams for some
time now. They spawn exactly every 2 weeks. I've found that no
matter what I do, adding meth. blue, water changes, etc. they always fungused
within 48 hours in my tap water. My water is usually around the following
parameters (taken with tetra test kits):
8 pH; 7 GH; 5 KH;
temp. 27-28 C; dont' have a conductivity meter. After a couple months of
this, I decided to let the fish spawn in 3 parts r/o water and 1 part tap, which
gave the following parameters (again taken with tetra test kits): 7-7.5 pH; 4-5
GH; 2 KH; temp. still around 27-28 C. Finally, most of the eggs hatched
(even without meth. blue).
I know that many apistos and such need soft water
to properly fertilize their eggs. However, I would have thought that fish
like the gold ram that has likely been bred in captivity for many generations
would be able to have viable babies in normal tap water (even my rather
disagreable stuff)? Has anyone else had trouble getting baby rams...I know
that their extremely easy to breed, but I understand that they are often hard to
get fry from. How do you do it?
Sam Yung
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