"Craig" -DONTEMAIL wrote in message
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i kept one male gold ram many years ago, they are quite hardy fish (i
was a real novice and they stood all my mistakes)

my guess would be that, as the demand has increased the fishes immune
system has been badly damaged by inbreeding. i wager youll just have got
a bad batch from the LFS.

see if you can get one or two from another source.

Good luck Craig



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I think you might be right. I bought the first three together - two died
within hours. I then bought another one about 6-8 weeks later from the same
source - but he had been returned and quarentened before being resold so the
chance is he came from the same batch, plus I'm always in and out of there
for odds and ends and hadn't seen a new batch within that time space.

Shame, because the two we did keep for a while were happy until I put them
together again and were really beautiful fish.

The plan is to put the new ones into a different tank which we're off to buy
at the weekend so it'll be a few weeks before we can get them. It'll be
interesting to see how these new ones do. Plus if we do have a problem we
can start looking at the hardness and PH of the water more easily without
upsetting the balance in any of the other tanks.