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Re: ram eggs
I have two pairs of Microgeophagus altispinosa I bought at auction
($6!). I put them into a community tank w/ plenty of tetras while
waiting to set up a more permanent home for them. In 4 days I had
eggs. Unfortunately, this hatch (which was only about 50 eggs) didn't
hatch. Less than a week later the male responsible for the first round
bred with the other female and this time they had a nice hatch of 80 or
so little guys. I left them in the tank to "observe" the parental
process and they did a fine job for about 2 weeks until they couldn't
keep track of the straying young and they all eventually fell prey to
the tetras and a young pair of A. cacatuoides (which were constantly
waiting at the edge of the males area of control waiting for the young
to wander out). About a week after that the other male bred with the
second female (these guys are definitely not polygamous) and I now have
a small batch of wrigglers. I struggling to get a decent pH in a ten
gallon I'm planning to move one of the pairs to (but that's another long
and convoluted story). Maybe after I reduce the predation I'll have some
success raising the fry.
The tank: 29G, set up for about 3 months, moderately planted under 110 W
of HO fluorescent lighting, 2 GH (although the plants quickly reduce
this, 2 is out of the tap), 3.5 KH, CO2 injection (diy), pH about 6.4,
temperature 80-82 (those HO bulbs put out some heat!). The tank is
overpopulated (and probably over filtered). 6 neons, 6 glowlights, 3
"blue" tetras, the 4 rams, 2 cacatuoides, clown pleco, 4 ottos, 2 black
neons. I have a SeaStorm 100 fluidized bed filter and a Whisper power
filter 2 (for mechanical filtration). NO2 and NH3 are 0. Even with all
of those fish I suspect I have a Nitrogen deficiency for the plants.
Michael
K & D Martin wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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