Fishy Updates

Posted by Sarah on July 8, 2008

German Blue Ram Fry Updates

Jeff started feeding the baby rams baby brine shrimp yesterday, and a few of them looked like they were eating it.

It’s so funny to watch the brine shrimp run away from the baby rams - it looks like they are playing chase.

It looks like there are a lot less rams than we started with, but part of that is because they are spreading out some, and not staying in big groups like they did before.

The older rams are getting some color - the largest one has a hint of a pink belly that we just noticed two nights ago.

They are so cute, but it’s hard to believe how small they were when they were born.

Discus Updates

We noticed discus eggs on Friday night, but they were gone Sunday morning.

The eggs were orange, and a few of them were an opaque orange, but the rest of them looked fertile.

We’ll have to find somewhere to put the third discus, but these fish are so skittish that I’m scared we’ll completely freak them out if we have to catch one of them, so we’ve been putting it off.

They don’t mind water changes that much, and they don’t get as agitated as they used to when people go up to the tank, but they are still very skittish fish.

They didn’t get too upset when we took the other fish out of the tank, but we tried to avoid the discus as much as we could when we did that.

What’s going on with your tanks?

Do you pay less attention to your tanks in the summer than you do at other times of the year?