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    German Blue Ram behaviour

    are u sure they havent spawned.the male may be taking care of eggs or wigglers.i have had both males and females do the parenting and sometimes they worked as a team but usually not in my experience.
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    40 Gallon GBR Setup and breeding advice

    i'd leave them all together until he pairs up with one of the females and then take the other 5 out.you would probably be more productive if you set your pair up in the 20 long and use the 5 gallon to get the fry started and then move the fry when they got a little bigger into your 40 to grow...
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    Keeping low pH

    thanks again darrel!as i told you i never kept a log but i guess in a way i did(on the forum)i would have never thought to look back at the old threads.i saw today that seachem does make an acid buffer for ph between 5 and 7(i believe) but i am sure it would be expensive to use even if it was...
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    Keeping low pH

    my experience is too limited and not even remotely scientific enough for me to make any definitive conclusions gerald.i only used around 60 drops of my stock solution to reach around 5ph in a 55 gallon tank of ro/di water and it didnt noticeably impact conductivity or nacl levels.all i know is...
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    Keeping low pH

    it all sounds pretty complicated to me darrel.what do you do if you are keeping fish that like clear water with a really low ph.i would think that would rule out peat.i know from experience that discus buffer from seachem works really well but it is expensive and obviously a higher target ph...
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    Keeping low pH

    hi raymond,i know a lot of the guys(the organic non chemical guys) will disagree but i had really good luck maintaining a ph between 4.7 and 5 with sodium bisulfate(its really inexpensive too).i would add 200 grams of sodium bisulfate to one gallon of distilled water.i added the stock solution...
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    daphnia

    you always have such good info darrel!i still have the papers that you emailed me about duckweed for purifying water.they were pretty interesting .
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    daphnia

    i had good luck with them before but this time i put them in a much bigger,shallower container.i havent been feeding them often either.i fed the crap out of them before.also ended up with some nightcrawlers in this bunch.they were all really small when i collected them and i didnt think...
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    daphnia

    i've had mixed luck with these guys this summer.i seeded a 600 gallon stock tank and got loads of them for a while and as it got hot they have slowed way down.my 300 gallon tub didnt do well at all had it out in full sun and it produced for a little while.i did something though that turned out...
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    sexing rotpunkt fry

    thanks mike!there's 40 or 50 of them so i hope i have some of each sex.
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    sexing rotpunkt fry

    i was wondering if there is anything i could look for specifically to try to sex these guys.the biggest ones are about 1 and a quarter inches.they look alike to me and i'm afraid they may all be female.the biggest one has lost most of the stripe down the midline and i am hoping it is male.i'm...
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    Fish not eating

    i agree with mike.i feed my rams and adult apistos bbs but if you are dead set on using adult brine shrimp there is a product called selcon that you can feed them to enrich them.
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    Fish not eating

    i have been dry for a little while david.just getting back into the hobby again after a couple year break and as i was reading this i remembered that when i used to make paste food with night crawlers i would soak them in water for an hour or maybe less cant remember.they evacuate most of the...
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    Fish not eating

    earthworms(red worms) are pretty easy to culture and one of the great things about them is that the babies are small enough for almost the smallest fish to eat without chopping them up.have you tried cutting up any earthworms into tiny pieces and feeding your fish.i often do this for fish that i...
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    fungus inhibitor for eggs

    glad you are having luck with your tank water but personally i wouldnt do it that way.there are strains of angelfish that the eggs will hatch in almost any water but i have had strains(half black blue blushing,half black,blue blushing,double dark and koi to name a few) that the only way i ever...
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    fungus inhibitor for eggs

    actually methylene blue is supposedly a poor antibacterial.its main benefit is somehow it enhances oxygen uptake.when i hatched angelfish eggs in the past i would use gallon jugs with ro water which i shocked with 10 drops of 30percent pure hydrogen peroxide.i would add a couple drops of...
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    SOS.....Baby Rams

    i think i saw on one of your posts that you did angelfish.if you can get the fry to the point that they can take bbs(as you have) in my experience raising ram fry is very similar to raising angelfish fry other then the fact that you dont have to worry about them getting fin rot like angels.they...
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    problems with ram fry

    i don't know whats going on.i decided to leave them with both parents and see what happens.they were freeswimming this morning.looked like a few were already gone before i left the house around eleven.they try really hard to be good parents.i think they may figure things out if i give them a...
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    problems with ram fry

    its pretty well documented that rams are not very good parents in the wild.at least compared to apistos and a lot of other dwarf cichlids.you are obviously doing something right.i owe you an apology.i was more than a little sceptical about you leaving the fry with the parents that long.you see...
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    problems with ram fry

    good looking fish.forgive me if i'm somewhat sceptical that every pair you've ever spawned parent raised the fry.i've talked with enough people to know this is not normally the case.i did have one pair that were really good parents.they even spawned with a bunch of fry in the tank.of course the...
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