Re: ram eggs

["K & D Martin" <martndk@ibm.net>]

I cannot get my microgeophagus altispinossas to breed for nothing.  The
water is at about 78 F, very acidic, ph is about 6 now, about 1 degree KH.
Problem is probably too many bottom dwellers.  Lots of kribs, got a pair
that just WON"T STOP breeding, so have bunches of their offspring, what
doesn't get picked off by the tetras and 3 biotodoma cupidos that are always
nose to nose with either themselves or the rams.  Lots of plants.  I bought
these fish mailorder back in November and they haven't grown much so i
figure they weren't too young when i got them but you never know.  Lots of
flat rocks in there but with all the other fish i can't see them laying
eggs, but you never know.  Anyone ever spawned rams in a community tank?  My
tank is a 75 gallon filled with rocks, crevices, pots, numerous bushy plants
and the fish are not large, mainly kribs, 4 tetras, biot. cupidos, micro.
altispinossa, one large pleco.   Its busy, but not overcrowded.   I've got
to start culling some of those kribs tho, when they are a little bigger i
will take some to the fish shop IF i can catch them.

kym

-----Original Message-----
From: Geo/Len <szucs@total.net>
To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Date: Thursday, July 29, 1999 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: ram eggs


>> I just hatched some German Rams (yellow, red form??)  eggs using a
airstone.
>> First time I ever bred Rams.
>
>Only had the Rams for  two weeks.
>
>George
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>> Can this be done?  I thought that rams (both kinds) peeled the eggshells
off
>> the fry when the fry are ready to hatch.  Other substrate dwelling
cichlids
>> do the same thing.  The mouthbrooding ones peel as many eggs as fry can
fit
>> in their mouths and leave the rest, which never hatch.
>>
>> G. Kadar
>> Toronto (it's hot here too - not as bad as Chicago though)
>> The US administration does not accept that greenhouse gases are causing a
>> problem.  Now, how can that be when we are releasing into the atmosphere,
in
>> a short period of time, the carbon from coal and petroleum that took
>> millions of years to be fixed by plants?  Go figure.
>>
>> (no 'r's Burns)
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