Reply With QuoteHealthy tetras are too fast for rams, even if you are unfortunate to get one with a mean streak.
will they attack smaller fishes like tetras?
Healthy tetras are too fast for rams, even if you are unfortunate to get one with a mean streak.
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but i have quite a lot of small fishes eg.neon,black neon,rummynose,white mountain cloud, in my community tank now.(so no matter how they run,some might get eaten up),And this holland ram looks beautiful and nice in a planted tank.how?any suggestion?
I have seen a pair in a community aquarium with no problem. they just stick to one corner (guess it's their homeground)and blur blur hovering there...
Generally they are peaceful... According to net, they will only be aggressive when defending their young or during mating.
Can try the cute cute Marble ram, maybe will be bullied by Tetra...
Baby Steel!
they will only be aggressive during spawning, but they would simply chase any other fishes away, nothing fatal
I use to have 6 small cute rams (don't know their name. Golden yellow, size, about twenty singapore cent coin).
Generally territorial, not revengeful nor bullies. But will defend its territory, which is small.
As long as any fish stays clear of its territory its fine and dandy.
The community will learn to respect the ram's territory, eventually.
Anyway, they didn't like my PH level in my tank, so they died.
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My wife didn't like their aggressive nature, so they're
on our ban list of fishes to keep.
Last time, I had the intention of buying a few rams for my tank. When I got to the LFS, (yucks!) the colour combinations on the rams look so ugly, unlike those in the fish books. The golden ones too plain. And then heard pple everywhere say Singapore's rams can't make it one - battery life not long one. Then I chose Kribs. Wah, chio. Got stripes on the fins tt can reflect the colours of the rainbow and soooooo hardy. But they like to kill each other; so housing is a problem.
I have a beautiful Holland Ram now in confinement.
Crime #1: He pecks anyone near the food. More stressful community environment.
Crime #2: Shrimp population reduction mystery
Right now I have a pair of Holland Rams in my small 1.5ft tank. I bought them from Sam's at Tiong Bahru. As I couldn't seem to tell the difference between a pinkish, orangish or red belly from each other, I asked Sam to catch for me a pair. Sam said that the faded colour ram is a female. So its one bold colour and one faded colour in my tank.
How do you sex the rams? I read up on both web and forums that the male has an orangish belly tinge or none at all while a female has pinkish belly tinge. But Sam claims the female is faded in body colour. I had read that another sign was to check the first few rays on the dorsal fin but I had a hard time differentiating based on that as all the rams I've seen so far all have pretty much the same ray configuration even on those people had claimed are female... Any help?
I've also noticed that most bold colour rams are branded as imported from Germany or Holland and priced accordingly high. Which makes me wonder if they all got one batch from a fish farm and sorted the fish themselves into bold and faded colours then label the bold ones as foreign imports.
interesting to noe some experience bros here have while keeping rams.most prob i wont buy it oredi.if not disrupt the whole system.i also have found an article on holland ram.those interested might wanna take a look. http://hjem.get2net.dk/Best_of_the_Web/blue%20rams.html
I have kept these rams before and they don't cause problems in a community planted tank. However, they are not that hardy and I find that they die easily when put under stress especially, after you do some rescaping of the tank (even though it is just a minor one).
They are peaceful to other fishes (in my case) but they are territorial towards their own kind. The weaker male gets chase into a corner and stays there most of the time....
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