Posted by Sarah on March 4, 2008
The German Blue Ram and the Australian Desert Goby fry are still doing well.
Jeff thinks he has about 60 Rams, which are still in a 10 gallon tank with a sponge filter.
I have only seen 4 Australian Desert Goby fry at one time, but there is a lot of java moss in the 1 gallon tank with them, so they could be hiding in it.
Three days ago I noticed that some of the goby fry looked like they had little black stripes, like the female adult gobies have, so I was really excited.
This morning Jeff noticed fry in the tank with the adult gobies, so hopefully a few of those will survive as well.
We knew there were eggs in the tank, but since all of the tanks are full right now we decided not to pull the eggs out, since we wouldn’t have any where to raise them.
The funny thing is that these guys looked almost as big as the 15 day old fry!
Posted by Sarah on February 25, 2008
Here’s a picture of my male Australian Desert Goby, Mello Yello.
Right now we still have at least 7 fry, but we’ve counted as many as 11 at one time.
They are so tiny.
We are feeding them live baby brine shrimp, and Hikari First bites, and they seem to be doing well.
Right now they are in a 1 gallon tank with a sponge filter, because the Ram fry took over the 10 gallon tank.
I’m having so much fun watching them grow up.
Posted by Sarah on February 17, 2008
We just noticed that we have German Blue Ram Fry. The eggs were laid on a piece of slate placed along the bottom of the aquarium gravel on February 13.
We pulled the slate out (making sure to keep the eggs fully submersed at all times) after the Rams looked like they were done because our Rams have a history of eating their eggs. From what I understand, most Rams do eat their eggs.
We didn’t have another tank set up, so Jeff mixed some water from the parents tank, and some RO water in a spare 10 gallon we had.
We put in a sponge filter that had been in one of the other tanks for a while, so it should have some good bacteria in it.
We put the slate in a green mesh breeder net on the side of the aquarium, and I’m glad we did – the little Rams are tiny!
Jeff didn’t think that they had hatched when he first went to look, because they are so small.
We have some baby brine shrimp (bbs) and are feeding them that for now.
Some people say that Rams can’t eat bbs at birth, and some people say that that’s all they feed them, so I hope they will do ok.
We’ve also got a pea sized clump of java moss in there since that tends to host some “goodies” for the fish to eat.
I’ll keep you updated, if you’ve ever had German Ram fry I’d love to hear about your experience.
