Ram species hybridizing

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Jack Dempsey
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I've found conflicting information on this, but is it possible to keep different species of ram cichlids together and not have them hybridize? Or are the differences in water temperature requirements too great that this would be a bad combination altogether?
 
Do you mean like blue, gold, German, pitch black? They will definitely hybridize. In fact pitch black rams produce 50/50 black and gold offspring generally.
If you mean keeping Bolivian rams with the other rams o mentioned then no, they probably won’t hybridize, especially if kept in multiples of their own species
 
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