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In the usa you can picked up wild caught blue rams. I've seen them available a couple of times from reliable sellers the past 3 years - i have one that is 3 years old now. They of course lack the strong colours of their domestic breed .... This presume the exporter is actually selling specimens...
The orange belly of the first might be a female but it is hard to tell if it is just a colour varation or orange tummy.
The 2nd one is a totally different morph that is mostly electric blue - If the fishes pair up and you see two different type of breeding tubes you have a pair otherwise you...
Yea i've been debating on altums myself the problem is i really don't want to go taller than 24 or maybe 28 inch since i like being able to reach the bottom to manage plants.
I'm pretty happy with my group of b. wavarni but not sure why they appeal to me more than the b. cupido. I keep the...
Every once in a while wetspot will get them as well as aquaticclarity - maybe once every 2 years. You can set w watch on wetspot page for notifications though i will note the past 12 to 14 months i've not seen any interesting sa fishes (i wonder if politics are involved); though they have gotten...
no - i have Dicrossus maculatus - beautiful but large fish. sadly only 2 are still alive after 2+ years but they get along even if two males.
Even though the tank is rather large (I have a 500 but mine is 8x4x2); a few comments - first your tank is really really tall and deserve really tall...
I'm a believer that drip acclimination is bad and i will set the unopen bag in the aquarium for 15 to 30 minutes and then open the bag - poor the water down the drain and plop the fish in - however there are other ways to mess up such as having a bad layout for the aquarium or very hard water...
I will make this comment:
I had a female hongsloi that i asked (on this forum) if it was male or female and most said it was a male but then a bit later - maybe 6 months it started laying eggs so i guess it was a female. It was a large fish as large as my largest male but no where as pretty as...
I think there is but i think it is more by catch location then individual per sey. The issue then becomes if it is the same species with a variation or a new species :(
That is interesting about them only living one season in the wild. It of course means if they live longer in the aquarium they will grow much larger and might change in behavior as well as perhaps be limited in breeding in later life.
update on nt and el frys in case there is interest:
nt - that is the female watching them from under a leaf - both the male and female tend to keep their top covers (birds in the wild ?) when moving about:
zoomed out a little - i guess that is some cyano on the wood i should remove next...