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[DOO-E]

Hey i am up to any suggestions i am using tripod so i just use it best to my knoledge of the site. Anyway i have some new pics up. I had some of the rams fighting but the blured anyway more of bailey 2 betta pics and a few rams

[jacky]

IMO you should learn more about plants in aquarium before putting halide on a tank. 10K temp isnt the best for plants growth. Unless you have all nutrients balanced, you will have algea problem..

other than that, good work on ur web design

[DOO-E]

I do have an algea problem but it is only on the glass. I like the look it gives off and i scrape the front daily. Therefore the algea growing on the back and the sides isnt bothering me a whole lot.

[MitchM]

Ryan,
It would be a good idea to add the website address to your user profile and signature - where people could have a direct link from here to your site.

...and, uh, maybe change your signature.....it's not professional.

(Hey, you asked. )

Mitch

[DOO-E]

O oaky then can do

[DOO-E]

Fish for sale now

[StirCrazy]

I took a look at your page and the layout is good, a couple sugestions though
1, clean your tanks befor you take pics of them. nothing looks worse than some one who is trying to sell stuff and the pictures are all algae filled.. it shows that if you don't have the 5 min a day to take care of the cleanlyness of the tank then you probably don't spend much time on the care of the fish either.

2, use a web site that doesent throw there own adds up that compete with you.

and finaly 3, if you are going to say that you did extensive research on the fish and fish mates on your webpage then make sure you don't have non compatable fish living togeather in the same house. a 2 min search (although I already knew, but wanted to sea how easy it was to find) showed that a guppy likes harder water with a PH of 6.8 to 7.2 where the blue ram you are trying to raise likes soft water with a PH of 5.5 to 6.5.

sorry this is one of my pet peevees in fresh water is that people don't do enuf reasearch thinking its all the same and subject fish to living in conditions that are not proper for it. so either your ram's don't have the proper requirments or your guppies don't have the propper requirments.

Steve

[DOO-E]

Well guppies are adapted for all types of enviroments. As for rams when they are young and growing like this you should keep them in soft tap water so they get the essential "elements" or whatever you would call them from the water. Now when they are older yes i will keep them with a lower pH but for now when they are young and not breeding I am going to keep them at a slightly acidic Ph so i am not muching wiht the water too much. As for the site do you have a recomendation for a site builder that does this. I am not great with computers maybe i will take some classes.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by DOO-E

Well guppies are adapted for all types of enviroments.

DOO-E, almost any fish will live in wrong conditions, does that make it right. guppies like slightly alkaline semmi hard to hard water. discus, rams, angels like acidic very soft water. and raising them in the wrong enviorment can cause problems down the road.

Originally Posted by DOO-E

As for rams when they are young and growing like this you should keep them in soft tap water so they get the essential "elements" or whatever you would call them from the water.

where did you get this info from. soft tap water so what PH would that be? If you are serious about Rams and Discus you will use very soft water, our tap water out here is almost perfect as it is only 12 to 17 ppm hardness and aprox 6ph (sometimes a bit lower) but your tap water in Taber will be hard with a higher PH. the best route you could take will be to use RO water and add a discus remineralizer to it. Rams are not an easy fish to breed in captivity, yes there are some people doing it but few. the conditions for them to breed are exacting and that starts from a baby. by keeping it in a wrong enviorment you are reducing the chances of it being able to breed as an adult.

here is some info for you that I have condenced from 3 or 4 books I have.

Ram
Habbits: timid, very peaceful. should have there own well-planted,
well heated (80) tank. should not be kept with overly active fish
in a comunity tank

water conditions: aged soft acidic water (5.5 to 6.5ph).
Tank should be placed so it recives several hours of
natural sunlight every day. tempature 80 to 85.

food requirments: live foods only, preferably Enchytrae or Tubifex worms
Dried foods are seldome touched

they are very hard to breed but it is possable givin the exacting conditions.
new fry should be fed infusoria and then newly hatched brine shrimp and finly choped tubifex worms.

now having said all that I have seen rams eat dried flake food but it all depends on the fish, most that I have seen won't take dried food.

I am going to say one more thing, if you are serious about wanting to try breed Rams, do it right and put them in a species tank not a comunity tank, as you angels get bigger they willbe agressive towards the rams and they will eat your neons (did you know neons are a natrual food source for Angel fish?) well I gues that would keep the neons from spooking the Rams anyways seriously though if you want to breed something set up a dedacated tank for the pair and recreate the natural enviorment for them as close as possable. yes fish will breed in a comunity tank (I have lemmon tetra's having babies all the time in mine, but I also only have fish that are natural occuring togeather in the wild) but the chances are higher in a proper enviorment.

Steve

[DOO-E]

This infor,ation has come from a ram breeder off of Alberta Aquatica. A site donated to the freshwater hobby. You think you know your guppies you are wrong also. Guppies come from areas where the freshwater rivers meet with the ocean therefore they are a slightly brachish water fish. you are ven keeping them in the wrong enviroment if you have some. Obviously it cannot be too bad of water quality for them seeing that they are breeding and if somethinf was wrong they would stop.
The Ram breeder told me too use the tap water for the elements in it it will help the rams grow. To lower pH i am using discus buffer this is helping and to soften the water i am using water pillows.
What books did u get htis information from?
As for the tank this is my plan. I will plant the tank as a community tank then as the rams choose their spawning site i will block from tat site over off leaving the rams with plants, rocks, driftwood. They will be the only fish in their section. The other section will be angelfish and tetras.
As for the Angels I have done this many of times. If you raise the the angels up with the neons i find the angelfish are okay with them. But if you add the angels then grow them to be a fair size adding the neons after then the angels will eat your neon tetras. Books io have been reading about breeding rams all of them say to add small tetras such as neons as ditherfish. This is my plan also is to in the end have only fish from the same area. The fighter will go into his own 5 gallon tank and the guppies are leaving.