Upgraded tank, new Rams

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NonstickRon

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Sep 9, 2008
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Hello. I've recently added 2 bolivian (male/female) 1 German Blue (female) and 2 Long-finned German Blues (male/female) to my tank. They've been very interesting. The males actually seem to be pretty pushy (especially the bolivian) when it comes time to eat, actually guarding the wafers i drop in for the corys and bristlenose. I guess I should drop those in after I turn out the lights at night?

The tank is a 55 gallon, lightly planted...but I plan on changing that.

Edit: Oh yeah. Guess I should give more details.

Tank is filtered by a Rena XP3 with ceramic pre-filter rings - sponges - old filter material & bio-chem stars - micro pad - bio-chem zorb pouch & nitra-zorb pouch.

Substrate is a layer of black flourite sand with a layer of tihitian black moon sand over that, round stones long the bottom back wall of the tank partially covered by sand.

Tankmates include: 7 flame tetra, 4 harlequin rasboras, 1 siamese algae eater, 1 bristle-nose pleco, 4 cory cats, 2 mystery snails, ghost shrimp (rams are slowly killing and eating these)

I've currrently got 2 tall sword plant stems in there and a short sword looking plant. Also some driftwood. Bought a coconut to turn into some caves this weekend.

I got a nitrite spike when I added the Rams...added too many at once I guess. After a day they were flashing on the driftwood a bit. Thats when I added the nitra-zorb to the filter, also have some Dr Tim's One and Only being delivered today. Have also been doing 3-4 10 gal water changes a day since I added them to keep nitrites below .25ppm

Tried to return them to the store but the store wouldn't take them so I'm trying my best to get my water back to optimal.
 
sounds ok, just watch for the fighting between males, otherwise sounds good, do you have pictures of the tank
 
I will in a few days. I've got an old sony cd mavica. I've taken some but can't pull pics off the disk till I fill it up and "finalize" it cause I can't find my transfer cable.
 
Ok, pics. Instead of trying to figure out how to post them here and size them and all that I just made a box for them on my flickr account. I'm starting to doubt the sexes on the blue rams. Feel free to add comments to the photos with your opinions on that or whatever else.

http://flickr.com/photos/nonstickron/sets/72157600228049724/
 
Me too. I can't figure out which are males and which are females. The coolest part so far is that the little regular blue ram is like way smaller than all the other ones but is just as bold...chasing the big ones around and stuff. One of the Long Finned blue rams has been actively bullying it but it doesn't seem to care...it totally just turns toward it and stands up for itself. :D

I'm a little worried about the female bolivian. Its been in pretty much the same spot since I brought it home. I have seen it eat a few times at this point though which is reassuring.
 
Is either of these Long-Fin GBRs a female?
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Pretty sure this is a female...
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females do have pink on their stomachs. it' a male i'd say
 
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