German Blue rams or Kribensis

Lukee

Lukee

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Most of you have heard about me getting my tank in 1 & 1/2 days:grinyes:
and still tossing and turning about breeding
either Kribensis or Blue rams?
They have set me up with a undergravle filter so babies cant get sucked

Does any1 no if Blue rams eat there babies?

Any general advice to which you would choose and if you have had
any experience:help:

Or experience of survival rate and stuff to do with breeding

It will have a terracota pot and 1-2 live plants

lukee:silly:
:thumbsup:



German Blue ram
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Kribensis
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Umm, set up with an UGF so they CAN'T get sucked? Cichlids dig. An UGF is useless with digging cichlids. You are better off with powerhead powered sponge filters if you want to spawn them and raise fry in the same tank. All cichlids are capable of raising babies and eating babies. It depends on the parents, not the type of fish, although some are more prone to than others.
 
The GBRs probably don't dig as much as the Kribs do and neither digs as much as a convict, but to suggest using a UGF to prevent babies from being sucked in is ridiculous. You can use a HOB filter and just put a sponge filter over the intake. Double filtration!
 
GBRs only dig when mating and building a nest. Not sure about Kribs. Either way I have 2 and they are small (2.5-3") and unless they go bananas the cratering effect can't be that large (assuming 3-4" of substrate is used) to bother anything.

I'm not expert, nor have I seen breeding behavior so i could be 100% wrong here! :eek: NEVER! ;)

I vote GBRs - Love the colors!
 
I have two pairs. They never dig. Each pair claimed territory at opposite ends of my tank and that's where they stay basically all the time. I have large driftwood and plants in there. Both pairs spawn on the large plant leaves. And they are dedicated to those eggs!! It's so funny to watch one of my discus wander over toward where they have eggs, just grazing through the gravel....and WHAM! Daddy blue ram flies out and whacks the discus on the head. The poor discus just look like....what the heck just happened:grinyes: :grinyes: . And I found out that clown loaches love those eggs!!!!

Debbi:)
 
Kribs are quite a bit bigger and the fry is live thats the upside,, but GBR are worth more and look a bit better,, ahhahaha its soo hard, ct-death what you think of Under Gravel filtration do you think that would suck the eggs up?
thinking it would but i dont think it would affect the Kribs because the hand really close to the female/male they've got more of a chance getting sucking into a normal filter.... Im not setteled .. more advice plz 1 day!
 
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