Re: blue ram parenting behaviour? P.S.

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

you can sex rams by looking for the red belly in the
female especialy if you have eggs and if you look at
the little black circle they have along the anterior
of the fish the female has irridescense spots while
the males do not.

Dave


--- John McCrone <j.mccrone@btinternet.com> wrote:
> What is the normal parenting pattern for blue rams?
> I have a pair in a 30
> inch tank, well planted with bogwood, sand substrate
> and two pairs of killis
> as dithers. The fish were bought just a few days
> ago, picking the feistiest
> bonded pair from a good healthy selection of rams.
> They produced a large
> clutch of eggs on the side of a piece of bogwood
> today.
> 
> From memory, the male might be the one that tends
> the eggs. The male
> certainly seems intent on chasing the female away
> but is so busy rushing
> around the tank that he does not look likely to do
> much egg care. The female
> has tried to sneak back to the eggs a few times but
> is being chased away.
> 
> What should I expect? That the male will settle down
> to guard the eggs? Or
> should the male be removed?
> 
> Cheers - John McCrone.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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