Re: blue ram varieties

["r_gomes" <r_gomes@email.msn.com>]

How do you sex Blue Rams?
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From: Conwayte@aol.com <Conwayte@aol.com>
To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 03, 1998 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: blue ram varieties


>I am a Blue Ram fan.
>I used to keep 3 tanks (20 L) with 3-4 in each tank.
>I got them to breed many times but didn't have the time to care for the
young
>(remove the parents, treat the eggs etc). The parents ate the eggs
everytime.
>One of the most beautiful fish you can own IMHO. Especially if you get some
>natural sun light in your aquarium.
>I tried different lights (this was 15 years ago and the selection is much
>bigger now) but nothing made them glow like sunlight.  It was like they got
>plugged into and outlet.  The blues where incredible.  You could see them
>"flash" from across the room when the sun was shining on the tanks.
>I am setting up tanks again and plan on having a few Blue Rams.
>I was always frustrated by them dying after a about a year and a half.  I
>would drive all over trying to get "better water", do water change twice a
>week.  I just read something the other day that they only have a life span
of
>about 2 years and are sexually mature at I think 4-6 weeks.  Wish I would
have
>known that back then.
>I don't think the Bolivian Rams are a colorful as the Blue Ram, and they
look
>more like a geophagus.
>Also I read the captive bred rams are smaller than the wild rams?
>As far as the German Rams, my understanding is that they are Blue Rams, but
>tank raised and bred and long removed from wild stock.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Tim
>
>
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