Spawning Again

My German Blues Rams are spawning again

I did a 50% water change on Sunday. They have been playing house since the last time when they eggs were eaten. She has been looking loaded with eggs for several days. I imagine there are quite a few. They have almost doubled their size since I brought them home. I am comparing them to the other female who isn't growing as well. I have been feeding them twice per day.

I removed mr shark on Sunday.

Wish us luck. Maybe we will get some wigglers in a few days?

Julie

best of luck

Good Luck !!! Love the babies !!!

Good luck!

Sounds great, good luck!

cool. good luck.

very nice, keep us posted on sucess..

The female ate all of the eggs again about 12 hours before they were supposed to hatch. the male was very attentive but got distracted. I pulled out the flounder (moved him to his perm home in the brakish tank). There is only one dither fish and rams in there now. Last Sunday when I was out of town again- I brought home 2 more GBR that I picked up for a steal 2/$5.49 (mis labled). I thought they were a male & female but they are about 1/2 the size- I was right. So now I have 2 male and 3 females....

Two more have paired up (not sure if one is my older single female or newer female). At any rate my older/lonely female looks better. She colored up and started flirting as soon as the new fish were added.

These little guys are crazy tough. Challenging the bigger GBR. I am thinking about moving all of them into the new 55 that I set up about 4 weeks ago. I litterally loaded it with driftwood and rocks and the tank is cycling very nice (still just thinking out-loud about it). I want to add more substrate before hand and move in some more plants. It may be another week or so away. I also have an empty 20 gallon so I could move 1 pair into. Not sure what to do. How many tanks do I need to breed a few Rams?

I have read that some breeder suggest that you take out both male and female or the female only so the eggs have some chance to hatch but I was hoping that I could just place one of those breeder nets over the clutch and maybe the male will still be able to raise the fry?