New Dwarf Cichlid

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scubasteve06

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Hey guys went to the lfs today to snoop around for my 29 after selling most of the fish in it besides one angel a yo yo loach and an angelicus botia and a krib. My lfs had rams in!!! They were all out of the blue bolivian rams but they still had these cool little guys. The manager told me they were a shortbody golden bolivian ram, the I.D. tag said Golden angel ram...any suggestions to the true name of this fish??? Well the manager thinks its a female but I have no idea how to sex these little guys and she is only a .5" long. Here are some pics of the pretty little girl, these guys really are special...I'm planning on getting her a mate in the next couple days tell me what you guys think.

Edit: I hate the new MFK version it blows, I can't upload pictures because it takes up all my broadband connection and most of my 2 GB of ram...which is a lot.
 
Here are the pics that the new MFK would not let me upload last night:irked::nilly:

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those are the so called balloon rams that looks like a gold one the german blue rams can also be short bodied like this to they look cool but many people here have had trouble with keeping them alive there said to die for no reason after a little while
 
It's a gold short bodied ram - golden ram are just a color morph/line bred strain of blue ram Microphageus ramirezi (I might be off on the spelling), and so is the short body trait.

There are only two types of ram, bolivian and blue ram - everything else that's thrown into the names is in regards to line breeding for physical or color attributes.

I noticed you said you were looking for a yoyo loach and an angelicus botia - both of those fish are the same thing, I believe. So you may have some confusion on the IDs of your yoyo loach as well.

Golden ram are harder to sex in that both males and females look identical until they put on a breeding dress - females will have a small bit of pink on their bellies when they become gravid with eggs. At .5" you've still got a ways to go before you'll figure that one out - if ever.

Ram in general are not easy to sex, and it's usually better to just introduce 6-8 fish at once and wait for them to pair off on their own.
 
Well I've got 10x turnover rate on my tank and can adjust it down to around 6x, and I keep the whisper 30 I have turned almost all the way down but it is loaded with biomax, and a mech pad I cut out so hopefully its getting some bio too. It also has a penguin 150 now that i bought almost a week ago.
 
so filtration is fine water params are excellent and he/she doing fine and is now exploring the whole tank.
 
They're fairly hearty fish - like all SA's they're more nitrate sensitive than the CA's so try to keep nitrates below 20 PPM at all times.

They prefer their waters in the warmer range, around 82 degrees will show a great improvement in behavior - other than that it's pretty straight forward, provide caves, live plants if you can, driftwood and feed em' a good variety of foods =)
 
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