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Originally Posted by albert_dao

Captive bred rams do fine in REGULAR TAP WATER. .

thats a pretty broad statement isn't it.. so no matter what my tap water is like they will do fine?

like I said be for they may live heck all fish may live in any water, but we are not giving them they best quality of life. and if you goal is to give the creatures in your care a low quality of life then maybe you should sell plastic fish for those people. and I will state it again they don't do fine, the tolerate it. and yes any captive breed will do better in water it is used to but when you say tap water, if I raised them in my tap water out here I bet you they will still do bad when sent to "your" tap water conditions or vise versa.

I know that the idea of a fish store is to make money (or there wouldn't be any) and I also know one of the best money makers is pretty fish that have a OK success rate, if they have a heck of a survival rate then no one buys more. if they have a horrible rate no one wants more as they keep dieing, but if you only lose about 50% (or lose them slowly one at a time) then you will buy more. look at us with blue chromis look at neon tetra's two prime examples. I have had rams for years, my last one only recently kicked the bucket after having him for 4 years and I would say that I have lost about 50% of them (all wild) now this was due to a few factors, one being fish compatibility. I stressed out a bunch of them to the point of death and I didn't even know what was going on. once I figured that out I started having success.

Steve