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Seems we have alot of interest in Rams here lately. I have a bunch of pairs I am working with and have been playing around with different set ups.
Obviously you can take a pair of Rams and throw them in a 10 gal bare tank alone and breed them.It works perfectly fine. But what if you are like me and just get bored easy or want more from your 10 gal tank?
When I was trying to breed my wild rams they just were too shy... They did not like the bare tank. So I added some pothos cuttings and a few river stones and oak leaves. That helped a bit.. Problem was the leaves of the pothos were getting algae so I added a few small bristlenose.. problem solved.. Still the wild Rams just hid...obviously we were not going to get spawning like this. I decided to add some cherry shrimp to entice the Rams.. The shrimp disappeared as expected but the rams still mostly hid. I decided to add a few of my endler Guppies to the tank. I expected a blood bath but it didn't happen. The Rams ignored the Guppies and miraculously came out and settled down and bred. Ironically the guppies have even bred but as expected most of the guppy fry disappeared..not all though. Thrilled I decided to to add some glass shrimp as a clean up crew. These worked out great. There is only an air driven sponge in the tank.
The result has been a low maintenance 10 gal breeding tank. I literally do nothing but change a little water every other day.. no wiping tanks etc.
Anyhow if you have limited real estate you may want to try a set up.like this..
Im sure if wanted better guppy survival a little guppy grass clump would work fine.
To save space these tanks are stacked narrow out..
Obviously you can take a pair of Rams and throw them in a 10 gal bare tank alone and breed them.It works perfectly fine. But what if you are like me and just get bored easy or want more from your 10 gal tank?
When I was trying to breed my wild rams they just were too shy... They did not like the bare tank. So I added some pothos cuttings and a few river stones and oak leaves. That helped a bit.. Problem was the leaves of the pothos were getting algae so I added a few small bristlenose.. problem solved.. Still the wild Rams just hid...obviously we were not going to get spawning like this. I decided to add some cherry shrimp to entice the Rams.. The shrimp disappeared as expected but the rams still mostly hid. I decided to add a few of my endler Guppies to the tank. I expected a blood bath but it didn't happen. The Rams ignored the Guppies and miraculously came out and settled down and bred. Ironically the guppies have even bred but as expected most of the guppy fry disappeared..not all though. Thrilled I decided to to add some glass shrimp as a clean up crew. These worked out great. There is only an air driven sponge in the tank.
The result has been a low maintenance 10 gal breeding tank. I literally do nothing but change a little water every other day.. no wiping tanks etc.
Anyhow if you have limited real estate you may want to try a set up.like this..
Im sure if wanted better guppy survival a little guppy grass clump would work fine.
To save space these tanks are stacked narrow out..
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