Stewie
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Hi everyone,
Yesterday I introduced four red phantom tetras into my heavily planted community tank (36"L, 12"W, 20"H) and my lone female blue ram started behaving aggressively towards them. Today the chasing seems to have intensified.
I find this odd because the ram was (and still is) completely peaceful with the other fish that were already in the tank when it itself was introduced (16 cardinal tetras, 1 Siamese algae eater). It only seems to bother the newly introduced red phantoms.
Has anyone else experienced this behaviour from their rams? Do you guys think this aggression will persist or do you think it's just the ram trying to show the newcomers who's boss and that the chasing will stop soon enough? And if you think it will persist, what are some things I can do to reduce the ram's aggression?
I've checked my water parameters and everything seems ok to me.
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: <5
GH: 4
KH: 4
PH: 7.5
Also, this tank has been established for over 4 months now (fully cycled) and I do weekly 25-30% water changes. It is heavily planted with a lot of hiding places. The following is a picture I took just before I got the new fish.
The current tank inhabitants besides the red phantoms and the ram are 1 siamese algae eater, some ghost shrimp and 1 cardinal tetra (the other 15 died some while ago because I had low KH but I've fixed that problem now by adding KH powder).
I'd appreciate any advice on this as I'm still pretty new to the hobby.
Thanks in advance,
Stuart
Yesterday I introduced four red phantom tetras into my heavily planted community tank (36"L, 12"W, 20"H) and my lone female blue ram started behaving aggressively towards them. Today the chasing seems to have intensified.
I find this odd because the ram was (and still is) completely peaceful with the other fish that were already in the tank when it itself was introduced (16 cardinal tetras, 1 Siamese algae eater). It only seems to bother the newly introduced red phantoms.
Has anyone else experienced this behaviour from their rams? Do you guys think this aggression will persist or do you think it's just the ram trying to show the newcomers who's boss and that the chasing will stop soon enough? And if you think it will persist, what are some things I can do to reduce the ram's aggression?
I've checked my water parameters and everything seems ok to me.
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: <5
GH: 4
KH: 4
PH: 7.5
Also, this tank has been established for over 4 months now (fully cycled) and I do weekly 25-30% water changes. It is heavily planted with a lot of hiding places. The following is a picture I took just before I got the new fish.
The current tank inhabitants besides the red phantoms and the ram are 1 siamese algae eater, some ghost shrimp and 1 cardinal tetra (the other 15 died some while ago because I had low KH but I've fixed that problem now by adding KH powder).
I'd appreciate any advice on this as I'm still pretty new to the hobby.
Thanks in advance,
Stuart
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