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Hi,
Germany Apisto heaven??? That´s sweet of you to think, but certainly not true for my area/region. :redface: Funny enough, I always thought the best fish shops are to be seen in England... In the end it will turn out that each country has some superb ones and some that are really crab...
Hi,
I was wondering if you could help me with sexing my Borellis. I recently bought three very small and under-nurtured fish in a shop (you don`t get Borellis here very often and mostly they are ill). Of the biggest and most dominant fish, I am quite sure it has to be a male. But I don´t...
sad things
Hi,
I agree. These fish are really poor creatures! I`ve read somewhere that they do inject special neon-colors into the fish. That´s really sad.
Greetings,
Nimue
Ram breeding behaviour
Hi Smulemor,
I think you`re right. Bolivian rams are a bit hardier than ramirezis. I do keep two Bolivian rams in my bigger tank. They are very peaceful fish, indeed.
And they do get tame...
Do you know how to figure out the sexes?? I thought I had a pair, but my...
Single educating ram
Hi Tom,
thanks for the information. I think I proceed with the fry liquid for a couple of days and then start trying to feed them with freshly hatched artemia.
Best wishes,
Birgit
PS: I´t´s quite sweet to see how my single educating ram mom picks up a few of...
:eek: Hi everybody,
my male blue ram got severely ill and finally died a few days ago during a breeding attempt. The female kept on caring for the eggs. After he died, I saw her picking up the eggs. I looked at the breeding-stone and it was empty. She also left the breeding area.
Now to my...
German rams tougher?
:rolleyes: Hi Tom,
I fear it`s only a rumour that rams bred in Germany are tougher than others.
As far as I know the rams and all the other sweetwater fish you get here (north Hessia) in the tank shops come from Czechoslovakia. And there either the fish are bred in...
Hexamita treatment
Hi Randall,
thanks for the information. I keep that in mind and will be making a new start with my small tank. I did a bit of reading in the internet. If this is of interest to you, it seems that the university of Düsseldorf did develop a new treatment against Hexamita...
Sad ending
Hi Tom, hi Randall,
thank you for your informative and kind answers.
However, I have to tell you it all ended pretty sad: the male died last night and the female ate the eggs in the end.
I desperately tried to get Metronidazole in the pharmacy yesterday evening. However they...
Treatment
Hi Randall,
thank you for your advice. I try to get Metronidazole from the pharmacy ASAP. However I fear that the fish will not survive the next couple of hours.
Bad enough, fishkeepers here (I looked up a few internet sites) are all convinced that Hexameta is due to a lack of...
Ram illness
Hey everybody!
My rams did it again: another breeding attempt!!! However this time it is a pretty bad thing, too, as the male is severely ill and I don´t know if I can rescue him. Well some days ago I tried to lower the temperature slowly in order to keep them from breeding...
Soft water
Hi Randall, hi Z-Man
thank you for your advice. Z-Man, I am quite positive that I do have a male and a female fish. The female is much smaller and shows a pretty distinctive red belly. They also take parts when guarding their eggs.
So I suppose you are right when you say that our...
Breeding experience?
Hi Randall,
thank you for your advice. I´ll try to lower the temperature slowly. At the moment I keep them at 26*C. I haven´t found a method yet to lower the ph level continually (now it´s at 7,2-7,4; GH = 8), exept for using rain-water (which has a freezing...
Hey guys!
I got a pair of ramirezis a couple of weeks ago. Since then they tried to breed three times, that´s almost every second week. Now I am worried that the female gets literally wasted away as the spawning process is very exhausting - and its a very small Mom, too.
Now, do I have...