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The Ram bebe's are growing! There were over 100 to start in the main tank and I turkey basted a baker's dozen into my quarantine tank. My first egg to fish experience. I am culling the weakest and hope to get down to 10 as I would like to keep them. I've read a good ratio is 3 females to 1 male for compatible mates? I won't find that out until they are almost full grown unfortunately. Now when they spawn I take the rock and scrape the eggs right into the Giant Danio tank, they seem to like caviar! ? When the fry have eaten enough live BBS they get wonderful pink bellies!

Welp, no deaths yet at this point, fingers crossed ?. Algae is slowly dying, Turning pink/red, so that’s exciting! The tank is much more lovely now that there are more shrimp running around. Also,is there a way to tell if females are at sexual maturity?

Quick update - issue with Gerald was not from water params. Checked tonight and are the exact same as last week, very stable so far, so either he had an internal disease or parasite (wish I took a photo!) or he was killed by my apistos... ? Either way, I’m considering waiting maybe 2-3 more weeks to see if my apistogrammas will breed in the right conditions, and if they don’t I plan to remove them from the tank. This decision would be made for the continuing safety of my current fish and shrimp, and that of the future inhabitants of this tank.

Naww. Baby rams so cute! Great camera work Elkwatcher.

I've tried numerous times starting with healthy green moss and ended up with mostly dingy brown green bunches. It's just floating on it's own, tried lower light, lower temps, ferts not that it needs it as it can get it's nutrients from the fish poop. I'll stick with Subwassertang and Christmas Moss for the shrimps to graze off of!