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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.
Posted by Sarah on January 25, 2008
Ok, Jeff was a very bad boy.
We went out to buy some filters today, and ended up coming home with another betta from The Tropical Fish Shoppe.
He really is beautiful – he’s an iridescent green with hints of lavendar.
We decided to put him in the planted tank, since we already have bettas in our other community tanks.
He’s a little shy now, but he seems to be doing well in his new home.
He swam away pretty fast when the cories came over to visit though.
Here’s a picture of him in his new home (without a flash):
And here’s one with the flash:
Isn’t he beautiful?
And I was just thinking I needed to get rid of the betta spa and betta fry starter…
I don’t know if I’ll try to breed him yet though, I guess it depends on how things go with the other fish we’re supposed to get.
I just don’t know where I’d put a bunch of jars of male bettas, and I’d have to wait for warmer weather so they wouldn’t be too cold in the jars.
Anyways, Jeff says he’s going to name the new betta Northern Lights, but I don’t know if he’s serious.
What do you think would be a good name for him?
Posted by Sarah on January 21, 2008
German Blue Rams are my husband’s favorite fish.
They’re really fun to watch – they chase each other around, and guard their territories, and they seem to have a lot of fun.
We were very fortunate to get some German Blue Rams from a breeder in Minneapolis, and they are beautiful.
Since they are sensitive to water conditions a lot of people have trouble keeping them, but we haven’t had any trouble at all – ours even spawned within a week of bringing them home.
That was a lot of fun.
Unfortunately, all of the eggs disappeared – or got eaten, before they could hatch, but I’m sure that someday we’ll have German Blue Ram fry.
