Blue Ram question

[C-paan]

Hi everyone, im new here but not to fish keeping, here is my line up:

55g Electric Blue, Jack dempsey, Firemouth, Weather loach, Spotted Talking Raphelle & a pleco
30g 2 Ryukin Goldfish, 1 Black Moor Goldfish, 2 regular goldfish, 1 Snail, and 1 Pleco
20g Planted 2 Black Skirt Tetras, Blue & Pink Skirt Tetra, Albino Cory & 2 clown loaches
10g Soon-to-be Blue Ram, and an Otto
5.5g planted 2 Chinese Firebelly Newts

Anyways on to my question. Im am picking up a Blue Ram I ordered tonight. I am thinking of putting it in the 10g but am changing my mind and want to move the tetras from the 20g to the 10g and have the ram in the 20g planted.

From what I have heard Rams wont uproot or eat my plants. Is this correct. Would this be a suitable housing and make a happier less stressful fish?

 

[fishgeek]

the ram would probably be happier with somewhere to hide ie the plants and also with the tetra's in as dithers

you are right in thinking that they wont worry the plants

are you getting a single ram?

andrew

 

[C-paan]

I was thinking of only getting one should I get two? A pair female and male? Would two be fine in a 10 or 20g? I dont want to overcrowd when they get to there max growth.

 

[farm41]

A pair will be just fine in your 10g.

 

[aspen]

a pair of rams in a 10 gal will do better with a few small fish. change lots of water and feed them well and they'll grow fine.

rick

 

[C-paan]

As for feeding, just regular cichild small pellets, and blood worms? Will that be good enough for food? Will they eat an occasion small feeder?

 

[aspen]

i feed my dwarfs frozen blood worms (sparingly- they can pig out and die on those) finely chopped hikari frozen tubifex, good flake my discus beefheart mix and sometimes even newly hatched baby brine shrimp.

dwarfs are not capable of eating feeders, except maybe the odd live bearer fry. some keep guppies, platy's or mollys with their dwarfs for this reason. i would NEVER buy feeder fish for fish as sensitive as dwarf cichlids to disease. feeders in an lfs are 2 days away from death one way or another.

i have found that keeping simply a male and female ram in a tank will often lead to the female being chased into a corner and hiding, jumping out or being killed. tetras, oto's etc will make them find a nesting place and 'guard' it from the other fish. don't forget quarentine.

rick