My rams just spawned...during a water change!

[jmhart]

Thanks!

As mentioned, I'm not really expecting any to make it. Water parameters had to be all over the place. Tap is extremely soft water, 7.4 pH, with no nitrate. Immediately following a water change, GH and KH are boosted to 6 and 4, respectively, and pH drops to 6.4 via co2.....

Who knows...

As I told my wife, if they did it once, they'll do it again. I have a 5g tank sitting in my closet waiting to be set up as a breeder. I wasn't planning on giving it a try until December(I got the Rams in June, so figured I'd give them 6 months), but now, maybe in a few weeks...

 

[Mustang Boy]

yea you might wanna setup that 5 and get it cycling cause rams will tend to their eggs so you may be getting some fry soon that will be alive and well

 

[Que]

Sometimes you just can't plan these things.

Q

 

[jmhart]

and yep, that's the papa in there tending the eggs

 

[jaysen]

awesome. good luck breeding them in the 5.

 

[jmhart]

When it happened, I had no idea. I was rearrnaging some driftwood not 2" away from the eggs and replanting some that lobelia. I thought the rams were acting weird, so I took a closer look, and, voila!

 

[Bubbles2112]

Very Cool!!!

 

[Reddog80p]

Sweet! I want FRY Grrrrrrrr!!! LOL

 

[sumluvu1314]

your ram looks nice!! I would really want to have a pair of those ~~

If you can raise them to half an inch would you give me a few of them ??

Congraduation any wayss!!

 

[jmhart]

I'm sure I'll have some for sale in a few months, probably just locally...