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Blue rams are peaceful, but put them in too small a tank, and they get aggressive. If ya do, get a male and a female, two males will scuffle too much the 620T are tall but not that wide so their territories will overlap IMO. Be careful of angels tho a friend of mine had her blue ram killed by a chomp on the head by a medium sized angel, never had angels myself so dunno .

Sunken eyes are possibly a sign that she probably hasn't been eating for some time. Hope she pulls through!

Sorry to hear that Tsarmina, fingers crossed she'll get better. All the best and I hope she'll be better in the morning.

Hey Shane Hows the weather down there? Welcome to the forums!

MCT is right, the male may rip into the female unless you give enough plant cover, they usually don't mix well until they want to breed and even then you need to remove the female soon after before he attacks her. Maybe two females or a single male with other fish? Good luck deciding either way, love the smell of a new tank

My breeding tank is LITTERED with ramshorns, and they never touch the plants, my big apple snail however ate the javamoss like spaghetti, my indian fern like lettuce and my anubias like a cookie. Theres two kinds, Pomacea bridgesi (Golden apple snail) <-- dun eat plants, and Pomacea canaliculata (Chanelled apple snail) <-- eats plants. Obviously i've got the wrong kind

To absorb chemicals in the water

Bruno suckers? Issat the borneo sucker/chinese hillstream loach/butterfly loach/hong kong pleco? Don't tell me me that another name for it?? Its confusing enuf already :lol:

Hey I've posted your pictures on planet catfish for ya. http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=97020#97020 Hope that helps

Good point, I think you've nailed it. My tank water is pH 6.0 (very very soft water) and tank water is ph 7. So my 50% water change would have shocked them. Thanks I think the mystery is solved 8) Thanks!~

Kinda looks like L080 to me, but I'm just comparing the pictures. Try posting in planet catfish?

In my old tank, I was using the same filter (the one with the magnet right?). I unwisely put the tank right next to window and it became so full of algae that the filter got sludged up, and the water started getting murky and cloudy. Ammonia levels went through the roof, and I lost a hillstream loach. So I guess it was more of the algae problem than a filter problem. Did you clean the filter with tap water by any chance?

Wow thanks for the quick replies. I didn't rinse the sponge filter or anything, it was sitting in a established tank for about 2 weeks before it got put in the fry tank, and I set up the fry tank with water from the community tank. The tank itself is only about 2 weeks running. Last night I did a 50% water change, and the water before that was clear, it was clear water the water change but when I came back this afternoon for lunch the water was white cloudy. I've noticed the same thing in the big tank, the water gets cloudy an hour after a water change, and then becomes clear again. Never thought much of it, just thought it was like bacterial bloom. Only got worried when i saw the fry at the surface looking a bit distressed. Does that happen to anyone else, or is it just my weird water? The water is clear again after topping it up with community tank water. and the fry is looking a bit better. No fatalities that I can see luckily. Another quick question, if you use water from the tap with a gas heater with dechlorinator, would that be the same as using aged water? Just curious cos I'm running out of containers to age water

Last night I did about a 50% water change with aged tap water at the same temp of the tank, and I've come home in the afternoon to a slightly cloudy tank, with some of the fry at the surface. I've done another water change with water from the established community tank, so hopefully the cycle has been established again, but I'm wondering how ppl that do major water changes manage with the bacterial bloom that happens with big water changes? I'm concerned about the fry in the tank, its my first batch, and I'd hate to lose them, especially cos the parents are producing increasingly smaller batches. Any help would be great thanks!

Nope, mine have never touched them

Wow they look gorgeous!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Hey Mincie welcome to the site!

Hey Gannet where is the Animal Shack?

If ya move the filter a bit higher so the output is rippling the water surface you dont need a pump, and you can put anythin you'd like in it . Don't have air pumps in any of my tanks.

My SAE was sold as a blackline flying fox too, I thought it was a just another name for em :oops:

They're about a month old? Still pretty small though. Transferring water mixed in with water from the community was the idea at first, but I didn't want to spread my snail infestation in to the new tank. All good though nothing a few hungry clown loaches can't fix Thanks mystic!

Sweet thanks. How close do i need to get the water parameter between the donor tank and the growout tank?

Whats a good way to move ram babies? Want to put my baby rams in a bigger growout tank, should I net them, siphon with an air tube or hose?

Hey Melanie, the algae killer stuff never worked on my tank, and it was green and cloudy for aaagggeesss (months) but I got lots of advice form ppl on this site and its FINALLY (woohoo!) gone clear. Anyways if ya reduce light to the tank (about 10 hours a day), so if ya put the light on a timer it'll help. Fish that eat algae are great, so a bristlenose, otos or blackline flying foxes, or for a cold-ish water tank a borneo sucker/hillstream loach are good to remove the algae thats there. Also it might be a sign of too much phosphates in the tank, and if you put plants in the tank it'll suck up the excess nutrients that will feed the algae. Alternatively theres stuff like Chem-zorb that will absorb that stuff. I put in Phos-zorb in my tank and now theres so little algae I'm worrying the algae eaters dont have enough to eat... Water changes help, but if you don't remove the cause its just going to keep on happening, over and over again I tried the algae killers (Algae-rid) to be specific, but I didn't see ANY change at all, and it just got cloudier.

Surface area is important for oxygen and Co2 transfer, the bigger the surface area the more oxygen in the water, the more fish you can get. For the 2nd tank surface area is 1500cm2 the other one is 900cm2. So the second tank can support twice as more fish as the first one! So length and width to support life, and height for light and plants. Go for the bigger one, you'll ALWAYS want something bigger afterwards