This week has been a bumper week for German Blue Ram eggs.
We had one batch of eggs three weeks ago, but unfortunately all of the fry disappeared when we went on a day trip.
Of course that led us to believe that our female adult bushynose pleco is the reason that so few of our pleco fry survive after they leave the cave.
Last Wednesday we noticed a few of the female rams looked like they were ready to lay eggs, and we saw a pair that hasn’t laid eggs in a while dig a little hole in the gravel, and start laying the eggs.
We didn’t really think that we could safely get the gravel and eggs out, so we left those in the tank, and they were eaten by the next morning.
Sunday night Jeff looked at the tank and realized that the pair that laid eggs three weeks ago was laying eggs on a piece of slate again, so we moved the eggs over to an empty tank that we were planning on moving one of the Discus too, to see if the pair of Discus would ever lay eggs again.
Hopefully this batch of eggs will make it, and we’ll have more German Blue Ram Fry.
These eggs are in a 20 gallon tall tank, while the last batch that survived was in a 10 gallon tank, so it will be interesting to see if that affects their growth or anything else.
What’s going on in your tanks?
