I have just purchased some blue ram, any help on how to look after them, there breeding habbits and what to feed babies, wether i keep them with there parents bla bla etc etc, cause to be honest i have only ever kept livebearers thought id try somthing new saw these beauties and thought, might as well try cichlids, any help would be greatly appreciated

I have two pair in my 250 litre community tank, ph 6.6, temp 26C, which breed about every month but eat the eggs after a few days. I feed them a varied diet of blood worms, frozen brine shrimp, shrimp pellets, algae wafers, flake food etc. They need soft acid water to breed successfully i.e. peat filtered.

See previous thread:

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?t=2984

Some more info here:

http://apisto.bravepages.com/Ram%20article.htm

I hope this helps.

Good luck

what is a peat filter? as i have a exturnal fluval 204 but it seems a bit powerful for this 3 foot tank?

Just place some peat in one of your filter compartments inside a stocking or one of the fluval media bags. I am using a Fluval 404 on my tank and it is 40 inches long by 20 inches wide, your 204 should be fine on a 3 foot.

i noticed this mornig that one of my females id being really agreesive towards the othere famles and the male, why is? and what should i do?