Blue Ram spawned

Ok so Im used to my rams spawning now, but I never really try to save them but this time the parents seem intend on making it work!! So Ive had a look at the eggs and can see the black emybro inside the egg, Im guessing they are only a day or so away from hatching. Amazing to watch both the male and female taking turns to mind the eggs also. I had expected microworms for my cory eggs (another tank but they got fungus ),but Im afraid they microworm never arrived today in the post, should be here on Monday Id expect. So anyone out there with some advise for me on this one! Im hoping Ted is around to give me a steer on it!!!


Gavin

Happy days gav congrats:woohoo:

Sorry to hear about the corys, yeah ted knows his stuff alright when it comes to rams has helped me alot.

Hope you get some fry out of this batch that survive, keep us in the loop have been watching mine and im nearly sure mine have paired up.

Good luck

Alan

Well done I hope it works out and some survive!

Not so sure, think my Angel is having a feed on them at present.Grrrr.
Cant really remove them due to the position, they are on a plant. Oh well at least Ive a couple now anyhow!! Poor golden ram will be feeling neglected now!
Still some eggs left but not sure how many.
Gavin

Holy spot!!! UPDATE
Im watching them hatch, the male had moved them from the plant to a different place,they are wriggling right in front of me now. WOW!!!
Gav

Great! Have you considered a tank divider?

Nope,swamped at the moment too as Ive an exam tomorrow with work etc.
Anyhow Im going to put them into a hatchery box tonight with a pair of old tights from herself wrapped around the hatchery box to stop the fry from getting out the inlets,but will allow the water through however.

Then on Sunday Im hoping to get the isolation tank up and running, Im going to cut some of the sponge from my existing external out, do a water change with the water coming from the main tank going straight into the isolation tank. I got an airpump today so will run an airstone onto the sponge and hopefully the fry will get to the free swimming stage then once Ive removed them from the hatchery.Need to get this damn elite heater to work propertly though.(Damn are they useless!).

Should have my whiteworms by Monday but will be getting some baby brine / artemia going in between then,starting tomorrow!
Gavin

Fishowner wrote:

Nope,swamped at the moment too as Ive an exam tomorrow with work etc.
Anyhow Im going to put them into a hatchery box tonight with a pair of old tights from herself wrapped around the hatchery box to stop the fry from getting out the inlets,but will allow the water through however.

Then on Sunday Im hoping to get the isolation tank up and running, Im going to cut some of the sponge from my existing external out, do a water change with the water coming from the main tank going straight into the isolation tank. I got an airpump today so will run an airstone onto the sponge and hopefully the fry will get to the free swimming stage then once Ive removed them from the hatchery.Need to get this damn elite heater to work propertly though.(Damn are they useless!).

Should have my whiteworms by Monday but will be getting some baby brine / artemia going in between then,starting tomorrow!
Gavin

Hello fishowner

I have bred Bolivian Rams and raised them to sell to my lfs. I just didn't have the time to do anything with them. I just let nature run its course. I let the parents raise them and they ate left over food and what ever micro organisms were in the tank. I must have sold over forty tank bred Bolivian Rams. That was last year. I have two pairs and i noticed over four weeks ago one of the males and females I had in the tank had been hiding and low and behold they had fry. So around ten of them have survived and are doing well. I do nothing special and I'm by no means an expert. I know how to keep adult Bolivians happy but thats it. Breeding them has been pure luck.

Congrats Gavin
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Lar

Hi Folks,
Well an update on the Wrigglers since Friday! I checked again tonight and had my baby brine shrimp ready, I also managed to get my hands on some microworms.(Also big thanks to Astrid who is send some down to me ).Much appreciated.

So Ive fed the wrigglers some of the baby brine shrimp and they have reacted well to it. The wrigglers were fairly quiet with little or no movement but once I shone the light on them and put some of the BBS into the hatchery tank they went into live and moved around alot. In fact some have even began to get into swimming mode up and down to the surface all in the space of a few hours only tonight, guess the food hit the spot for them!! Im delighted with them so far, however Im going to wait for another few days before I move them to the QT tank as I feel they arent strong enough at present to survive the move yet. Will see how they are progressing over the course of the week. Id say I have about 20 of them at the moment all doing well from what i can see. They go really still, I though some of them were dead but then they wriggle along!! Happy days, tried getting pics but they are actually too small to be honest so when they get abit bigger I will put some pics up.
Also what do people do with the baby brine shrimp, Ive feed all my tanks tonight with it and still have loads left. Can you freeze some of it in ice cube containers,Im pretty sure you can? (Seeing as the first 24 / 36 hours after hatching are when they are most nutrious).

Gavin

congrats gav hope they make it!

come to think of it 2 of my blue rams paired up and over the past 2 days i have noticed them cleaning a leaf on a plant in my tank i'll have to check it out and see if anythin has happened i already have a small 20 lt tank set up for kribensis fry cause they keep getting eaten so im prepared for any babies

25- 30 now free swimming

did the post come today?

It did indeed, thanks a million, was just feeding them some there!
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don't feed them straight away, stick them on some porridge/ready brek, keep them somewhere warm (hotpress?)and they should be crawling up the side of your container in a week or so, then feed them that, the worms I send you had some porridge send with them.

Although these propably made their way all around the bag in transit, so you might have been safe feeding them

Thanks Astrid, I only used some around the edges which were porridge free! Was in the supermarket earlier this afternoon for ready brek and a culture set up now downstairs inside the window so will await the climbers!!! Thanks for the worms, smelt lovely!!!!haha!!
Gavin

Yes they do have kind of a funky smell when they get on a bit:P