Blue Ram acting diffrent is it sick?

[Blairo1]

Oh and hopefully Cathy will be along, because she's the wizard at Blue Rams and has done things with them that I could not have thought of, I'm more of a Bolivian nut.....

If Cathy has advice, listen to that, above and beyond mine .

 

[bwd]

Blair01,
Thanks for the explanations and help with this. It is one of the males. Should I return the picked on male and does it matter what female? I have the dried small shrimp I was using as a treat so I will switch places with the worms in the feeding.

:thumbsup:

 

[Blairo1]

No problem!

What I normally do is select whichever I believe to be inferior in comparison to the others and those are the ones I remove - ie choose the two best and leave them. I've always done this, even when buying the fish and had them pair up within a matter of days. I've never found it a necessity with these fish to allow them to select a mate from a group, but that might just be me.

If a pair is already bonded, keep them together, chances are they're the nicest fish anyway. If there is no formed pair then it's entirely up to you which female you leave with the healthy male.

HTH!