Re: [GSAS-Member] Battling Rams

["simion" <s.simion@comcast.net>]

Hi Anita,

Assuming that you have two pairs, they should do fine in your second 20
gallon planted tank. Just place a very small clay flower pot, laid on its
side,  in two diagonal corners of the aquarium. If you really have two
pairs,  each pair will soon populate a flower pot. They love to have aquatic
plants as their surroundings, but they also like  open water areas, as well.
So prune the plants, a little bit, around the pots, and leave a "green
buffer zone" between the two pairs. For my purpose, I have kept my breeding
pairs in 10 gallon bare bottom tanks, just with the flower pot, a water
heater (~80º F) and an air driven sponge filter. They did excellent. Good
luck!

Sandu Simion


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A JACOBSON" <amjacobson52@msn.com>
To: "Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat" <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: [GSAS-Member] Battling Rams


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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