blue ram q?

[Tedd]

saw this beautiful fish for the first time the other day. WoW!

i'm looking up some information on it and could use some more links or
information from people who have or have had them.

some googled sites i've visited so far:

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/CichlidPimp/
http://hjem.get2net.dk/Best_of_the_Web/blue%20rams.html
http://www.wardleyfish.com/fish_info.asp?type=Tropical&selfish=T04

thanks in advance. :-)

tedd.





The spam trap provided is actually my ex-wife's e-mail. ;-)

[Haywire]

http://hjem.get2net.dk/Best_of_the_Web/Kribensis.html

yeah, wait till you see a 1.5" male square off and chase off a fully grown
angel. Awesome little guys.

"Tedd" > wrote in
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> saw this beautiful fish for the first time the other day. WoW!
>
> i'm looking up some information on it and could use some more links or
> information from people who have or have had them.
>
> some googled sites i've visited so far:
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/tx/CichlidPimp/
> http://hjem.get2net.dk/Best_of_the_Web/blue%20rams.html
> http://www.wardleyfish.com/fish_info.asp?type=Tropical&selfish=T04
>
> thanks in advance. :-)
>
> tedd.
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>
>
> The spam trap provided is actually my ex-wife's e-mail. ;-)
>
>
>

[Mean_Chlorine]

"Tedd" > wrote in message >...
> saw this beautiful fish for the first time the other day. WoW!
>
> i'm looking up some information on it and could use some more links or
> information from people who have or have had them.

Yeah, it's a beautiful fish.
It's also got a short natural life-span (three years if you're lucky),
is about as prone to disease and death as fancy discus, and also has
about the same demands on water and temperature. Most of the rams you
can find are mass-produced in south-east asia, meaning they are
heavily inbred and have been raised in ponds constantly dosed with
antibiotics, in turn meaning they are sensitive to pretty much
everything.
If you intend to breed them, it is not too hard to get them to spawn,
but rams are about as good parents as angelfish or fancy discus (ie
not) and it is difficult to get the fry to survive.

It is a timid fish, except against other rams, and tend to be bullied
by any aggressive or semi-aggressive fish you might have.

I'm not saying you shouldn't get rams, but be aware that it's a
difficult and shortlived fish.
I've never kept wild-caught rams, they may be hardier and better
parents, I do not know.

A far more robust and healthy fish is the bolivian ram, which,
unfortunately, is also slightly larger, slightly more aggressive, and
slightly less colorful.

[Shawn]

Yeah. Blue rams do display very beautiful color in certain conditions.
I have a pair in a 10-g tank and they just laid about 100 to 150 eggs last
night. Despite of the difficulty to keep the fry, you'd got the chance to
see their abundant body language when they are mating.


"Tedd" > wrote in message
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> saw this beautiful fish for the first time the other day. WoW!
>
> i'm looking up some information on it and could use some more links or
> information from people who have or have had them.
>
> some googled sites i've visited so far:
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/tx/CichlidPimp/
> http://hjem.get2net.dk/Best_of_the_Web/blue%20rams.html
> http://www.wardleyfish.com/fish_info.asp?type=Tropical&selfish=T04
>
> thanks in advance. :-)
>
> tedd.
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> The spam trap provided is actually my ex-wife's e-mail. ;-)
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