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Hi Everyone-
I've ordered my 125 gallon and have started saving clean rain water and R/O water in a 33 gallon Rubbermade garbage can-brand new and spotless.
When I was shopping earlier this week I decided to but a complete set up 29 gallon aquarium to store more water and with the potential of being used as quarrantine headquarters, a hospital tank, and in an emergency a breeding tank.
I've tested my mix of rain and R/O and it shows no conductivity and the Ph. measures 5.8-I'm assuming the chloromine will be dealt with by the power canister filter-am I right. I've got the temp. at 83F. The water is aging and all the equipment working.
Now comes my question-my LFS got in a huge shipment of rams on Thurs.
There are four different kinds: German Blues, Goldens, wild caught Bolivian and wild caught original type we used to call Apistogramma
ramirezi back in 1960. The German Blues are awesome and quite large-I'm guessing over 2.25" and in spectacular condition. The Goldens are much younger and smaller and I'm really not sure how I feel about them.
I'd never seen the Bolivian Ram before but both groupsof wild caught are
pretty tatty and in quarrantine for at least a month. The last group is my old friend-Apistogramma ramirezi, now Microgeophagus-The are in fair shape, all are eating like piggies but they certainly don't have as much blue as the German clone but do have additional subtle colors.
Can I buy 2 or three of each type and put them in the 29 along with 7
bleeding heart tetras. Will they mate indescriminately or seek out their own race. The tank will have a black substrate, has a black painted background and I will add several 7 or 8 flat stones and a bunch of plants.
The shop gave me a quart of R/O water already aged and possessing the right bacteria. If I can keep these well they will go into the 125 which I'm guessing will be in about 6 weeks. I already picked 3 German Blues and 3
Bolivians and they were moved into a tank in the shop with some Otocinclus sp.
Will they sense their different racial make-up even though they are the same sp. of will they breed with any compatible mate? Would the 12
rams (3 each) get along in a well planted 29 gallon. They are feeding them something called "black worms" and all four types seem ravenous.
Finally a secret-I had fishes from 1945-63. I was twenty when I sold off my aquariums and fishes and turned the little room into a room for breeding roller canaries. Coming back to fishes now-especially ones that I've owned before is making me feel 12 years old which was the peak of my interest in aquaria. It's better than viagra or cialis-its not quite the "fountain" of youth-but its wet! Best always-
I've ordered my 125 gallon and have started saving clean rain water and R/O water in a 33 gallon Rubbermade garbage can-brand new and spotless.
When I was shopping earlier this week I decided to but a complete set up 29 gallon aquarium to store more water and with the potential of being used as quarrantine headquarters, a hospital tank, and in an emergency a breeding tank.
I've tested my mix of rain and R/O and it shows no conductivity and the Ph. measures 5.8-I'm assuming the chloromine will be dealt with by the power canister filter-am I right. I've got the temp. at 83F. The water is aging and all the equipment working.
Now comes my question-my LFS got in a huge shipment of rams on Thurs.
There are four different kinds: German Blues, Goldens, wild caught Bolivian and wild caught original type we used to call Apistogramma
ramirezi back in 1960. The German Blues are awesome and quite large-I'm guessing over 2.25" and in spectacular condition. The Goldens are much younger and smaller and I'm really not sure how I feel about them.
I'd never seen the Bolivian Ram before but both groupsof wild caught are
pretty tatty and in quarrantine for at least a month. The last group is my old friend-Apistogramma ramirezi, now Microgeophagus-The are in fair shape, all are eating like piggies but they certainly don't have as much blue as the German clone but do have additional subtle colors.
Can I buy 2 or three of each type and put them in the 29 along with 7
bleeding heart tetras. Will they mate indescriminately or seek out their own race. The tank will have a black substrate, has a black painted background and I will add several 7 or 8 flat stones and a bunch of plants.
The shop gave me a quart of R/O water already aged and possessing the right bacteria. If I can keep these well they will go into the 125 which I'm guessing will be in about 6 weeks. I already picked 3 German Blues and 3
Bolivians and they were moved into a tank in the shop with some Otocinclus sp.
Will they sense their different racial make-up even though they are the same sp. of will they breed with any compatible mate? Would the 12
rams (3 each) get along in a well planted 29 gallon. They are feeding them something called "black worms" and all four types seem ravenous.
Finally a secret-I had fishes from 1945-63. I was twenty when I sold off my aquariums and fishes and turned the little room into a room for breeding roller canaries. Coming back to fishes now-especially ones that I've owned before is making me feel 12 years old which was the peak of my interest in aquaria. It's better than viagra or cialis-its not quite the "fountain" of youth-but its wet! Best always-