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Maybe my tank is the exception, but I have a whole bunch of
other fish in my 90 gal plant tank where the rams spawned. As a habitat
biologist I always carry that phrase from the Kevin Costner movie about that
ball park in the cornfield 'if you build it they will come'- I think even in the
busiest tank, if you give your fish the right conditions they will spawn. My
rams took a year and a half to start spawning regularly, but now when they are
fed regularly and well, they spawn every week and a half to two weeks. The one
big caveat is that the babies don't last long in that setting (but I could never
take care of them all anyway. The rams are not agressive enought to keep the
other fish out (unlike the apistos). My water is pH=6.4, KH=3, GH=4, Temp 78-F.
I almost forgot to mention what seemed to be the most important trigger for
spawning (assuming everthing else was right already)- I placed a very flat rock
(about 10-cm in diameter) in the area that two of my four rams liked to court
in- they spawned the next day.
Good luck!
Cory Williamson
Kym,
Appears you have wall-to-wall bottom dwellers! Move the Rams to a
breeding tank. Your community is too "busy" for breeding!
K & D Martin wrote:
Cool! WHat are your water specifics? I have 5 of
these guys and no one is making any sort of move, i've had them since
October and they weren't much smaller then so i think they are of
age. My water is RO, about 6.8, about 82 degrees, 1 degree
GH. I don't know if it is the fact there are other fish in
there, got a pleco, large one, i need to get out of there, and a bunch
of kribs and one pesky pink convict that was supposed to have been
dinner months ago but managed to survive, he is now much bigger than any
of the dwarfs and bugging everything, i have tried about everything to
catch him but i have too many nooks and crannies in there. Also
got some clown loaches and tetras. Any
advice?
kym
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From: Cory and Susanne Williamson <webwill@infinet.net>
To: apisto@admin.listbox.com
<apisto@admin.listbox.com>
Date: Friday, April 16,
1999 10:58 PM
I have some new
photos on my website that some of you might find a real treat- I
caught my Bolivian rams spawning on camera a couple of weeks
ago. http://home.infinet.net/webwill/ Cory
Williamson
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