Hi,
New to this forum & cichlids in general. Had a pair of young german blue rams for a month or so. They coloured up nicely & have been feeding / growing well but since I put a big piece of upright bog wood in the tank the male has become a recluse.
He spends all the time the lights are on hovering at the back of the tank out of sight while the female roams happily around the tank. No signs of illness in him or any other fish, water params are normal, no ammonia or nitrite, nitrate rarely above 10 ppm, nitrate is normally somewhere between 5 & 10 when I do a water change. Temp 27 degrees.
Tank is planted and has plenty of bog wood, I use peat in my external filter & pre-treat my water with peat for small regular water changes. My ph is stable around 7 with the peat filtration.
Could changing the tank layout have upset him by removing his previous territory? He seems disinterested in the female now.
My Gouramis are mating and the male is territorial but only around his floating nest, I've not seen him do anything more than chase the rams away - could aggression/chasing from his have upset the ram?
I do have a second tank I could put him in to see if it's aggression related but it runs cooler, lightly planted, no peat & a little alkaline so would be quite an effort to change that round plus I'd have to offload some fish from there.
Thanks,
Scott
New to this forum & cichlids in general. Had a pair of young german blue rams for a month or so. They coloured up nicely & have been feeding / growing well but since I put a big piece of upright bog wood in the tank the male has become a recluse.
He spends all the time the lights are on hovering at the back of the tank out of sight while the female roams happily around the tank. No signs of illness in him or any other fish, water params are normal, no ammonia or nitrite, nitrate rarely above 10 ppm, nitrate is normally somewhere between 5 & 10 when I do a water change. Temp 27 degrees.
Tank is planted and has plenty of bog wood, I use peat in my external filter & pre-treat my water with peat for small regular water changes. My ph is stable around 7 with the peat filtration.
Could changing the tank layout have upset him by removing his previous territory? He seems disinterested in the female now.
My Gouramis are mating and the male is territorial but only around his floating nest, I've not seen him do anything more than chase the rams away - could aggression/chasing from his have upset the ram?
I do have a second tank I could put him in to see if it's aggression related but it runs cooler, lightly planted, no peat & a little alkaline so would be quite an effort to change that round plus I'd have to offload some fish from there.
Thanks,
Scott