[GSAS-Member] Battling Rams

["A JACOBSON" <amjacobson52@msn.com>]

Yes, I know, what did I expect?

On Sunday I bought these 4 extremely cute, 1" long rams, 2 male & 2 female (the 
females have very pink bellies, and the males have more orangey faces, and 
their (2nd? 3rd? spine in their dorsal fin is already a little higher than the 
others, so I am assuming I have 2 pair.)  The last rams I bought taught me the 
importance of quarantining all new fish for 2 weeks, a lesson taught by 
bringing a really bad ich into the tank that killed them and every other fish I 
cared about, leaving me with 3 serpae tetras and a bunch of cories.

So having learned my lesson, I moved them into my heavily planted, 10 gal 
quarantine tank, which they share with one pleco.  They are not happy.  Each 
one seems to be trying to stake out at least half the aquarium as their own 
territory, but my aquarium only has 2 halfs, and 4 rams.  They are being VERY 
aggressive towards each other.  I even saw a very brief jaw lock this evening.

Here are my options.  

    I can leave them in there, or 
    I can move 1 pair to a 20 gal, also very heavily planted, which is sorta a 
quarantine tank, and where I am currently successfully treating an almost full 
grown angel for parasites with Maracide.  One dose left., or
    I can move both pairs to the self-same 20 gal tank.

It is MUCH more heavily planted, and there are many more spaces to hide, than 
the 10 gallon.

Any suggestions?  I'll take any and all suggestions to heart.

Anita

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