BREEDING GERMAN BLUE RAMS - FATHER FISH'S SIMPLE METHOD
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- Breeding German Rams basic steps by Father Fish. A clear, concise, specific plan for breeding German blue rams. Fatherf Fish outlines exactly what you need to do to have a successful spawn of German Blue Rams. Follow these simple steps and tou will have a growing tank of young rams.
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Father Fish is an old time fish keeper. For 70 years he has kept fish. These are his simple, easy, bullet-proof methods for keeping healthy, happy tropical fish in an environment that can truly be called a living aquarium.
Louis Foxwell adopted the role of Father Fish many years ago when he decided to open a tropical fish store as a retirement business. He had been a missionary, following in his father's footsteps for 25 years. Both men served the same congregation of deaf worshipers.
Tropical fish were Father fish's constant companion throughout his life. He tells a wonderful story about his grandmother who kept fish in Berlin, Germany as a child.
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An extremely informational & fun video. You are a good teacher, Father Fish. This presentation will undoubtedly inspire many (myself included) to attempt to breed these fish. Good video. 👍📺😎
That would be FANTASTIC!
Building my knowledge on Rams. I couldn't keep them alive in the 80's-90's. You taught me what i did wrong- I made them sick by freezing them in 74° water! Thats for starters!
82 will keep them blue!
Thanks Father Fish! I really appreciate this video!! I can't wait to get settled somewhere and get all these tanks set up. So I can try some breeding projects.Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge!! I hope you're having a great day!!🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
Good luck!
Excellent, people need to know anyone can breed German Rams. I my self was afraid to even buy them after watching AC videos on how hard it was to keep and breed these beautiful little fish. I finally bought 3 German Rams this year and am on my second successful spawn, NO RO water, no sterile environment, they are as easy as guppies. These other people were just trying to keep the price up for their own pocket and not for the good of the hobby. I will be selling mine for $5 so people can enjoy them. Thank again
I agree with every single thing you said. Especially not to buy a breeding pair. Bought 3 young GBR’s, they grew out to be 2 females and 1 male. 1 female got beat up. Took her out. The pair left in the rank hit it off splendidly and bred prolifically.
bravo!
Thanks for the informative video, love learning new stuff with my 16 year old aquarium . I’ve learned so much off your videos. 😊🇨🇦
Hi, I set up a deep sanded tank a year ago after watching your videos, I'm so happy with the results that I'm changing all of my aquariums into deep sandbeds, I cannot thank you enough for your advice, I am enjoying the hobby more now than ever before because of your methods, how do I send you pictures of what my tanks look like so maybe you could advise me further. Take care
That is awesome! Delighted to hear from you. Sign up for the Discord channel through my Home page. Click on link under COMMUNITY tab. You will be able to post pics and talk with others.
Hi Father Fish, after being out the hobby for 30 years I decided to start again after watching your channel which I think is marvelous information. I made up a dirty tank as you explained in your videos and then added a few Cardinals and Panda Corys then went for Electric Blue Rams which to my amazement have laid eggs on the plant leaf so am going to remove the babies once they start to bob around and put in their own tank . Will keep you posted thankyou for you expertise and knowledge . Newcastle upon Tyne
Good luck with the fry
Thank you Father Fish for sharing this valuable information. I have a 30 gallon tank that has been set up for over 2 years now that has dirt and sand substrate 4 inches deep. It is planted 50 % with Vallisneria. I purchased 11 young nearly 1 inch German Blue Rams yesterday, from a local respected breeder. I have placed a dark flat smooth round stone about 4 to 5 inches wide in the front corner, with a terracotta pot for some cover. I will keep the tank at about 83 degrees F. I am feeding them Frozen Dapnia and Frozen Brine Shrimp. And also Tetra Color Granules and Tetra min Flakes (On different days and not all at once of course). I have started to see even at their small sizes Males starting to challenge each other and females just hanging around males to look around the tank for food. So I will just keep feeding them up for a month or two (if they don't start to breed by themselves first! Ha ha!). Once I see a pair form I will remove the other fish into another tank. Then like you say. (because I remember in the past just leaving fry in with parents, watching the fry eat and do well. Yet after each day the fry would just start disappearing for no good reason. Well that is what I used to think. But you have now made me aware of what was actually happening to them. And yes the parents would shortly after, spawn once again.) I will remove the day 1 free swimming fry to a smaller container to raise them separately from the parents! Micro Worms fist 3 days and then move them onto Baby Brine Shrimp.
Sounds perfect. It is a matter of dialing in all of the variables. Once you have that nailed you will start producing rams. Best wishes.
Father Fish
Such great info
Glad you liked it
Although I have no interest in breeding them, you may have solved my Ram problem within the first couple minutes of this video. I have never maintained a working aquarium at a temp over 78°
A joy , so happy to have found you _ Phil, a deep substrate gardener, new to fish keeping - thank you!
Phil (in Milan)
Welcome aboard! Delighted to meet you Phil. Join us on DISCORD for a better community experience. discord.gg/mXVBF3Pv
Awesome video of other fish like you said I've been unsuccessful with two batches of babies on the third batch now and they're a week and a half old keep getting a little farther each time. Thanks for all the info it's really helping
Thank you Alan for the kudos. Let me know when you have some juvies to sell.
Such an interesting fish, once the fry grow out do they get on well together in the same tank ?
until the begin pairing off, yes
Thank you for explaining this to everyone really helpful 👍
Thank you Rego.
Very detail information & the successful method in rams breeding. Thank you
You are most welcome Richard.
Thanks greatly appreciate all you do.
1 inch of mud and 3 inch of sand is the recommended for a 55g?
Sounds right to me!
I'm starting to breed electric blue Acura fish. I have fry as we speak. I really love watching them swim around, they are about 2 weeks old actually they where born on the 13th of this month father fish.. What I do is remove the male once they become free swimmers cause both times he wanted to eat them so I put a Divider in my 55 gallon tank. And the momma is doing a great job raising her fry. I have 1 male and 2 females . I bought them all when they where about 2 inches long father fish
Nicely done William. They are a very nice fish.
I'm just starting this journey, thank you very much
Welcome! Oskar. Join us on DISCORD to share your journey. discord.gg/h3Y3xKNJ
@@FatherFish Hello, Thank you, I haven't noticed your comment before, the discord link doesn't work unfortunately
Simply amazing quality content. There's so much valuable info here. Thanks!
Thank you Nath.
Followed Your instructions and it worked like a charm thank you
Brave sewerpipe.
Great info with easy to follow steps and requirements!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you Ruben.
You get a thumbs up even before I watch the video!
Excellent info thank you ff.
My pleasure!
Well you need some rams and somewhere to put them 😂
Great video!
You got that right! I am gonna do it Jamie!
Great video father fish. 😁
Thanks 👍
Father Fish, I have raised angel fry on egg yolks. I take a small piece of yolk and put it in a mesh bag and drop it in the tank. Would this method work for ram fry or any type of fry?
It will work. You have learned the secret of using this high quality food. Most who try it fail.
I bred my first celestial pearl danios. I havn't tried rams yet and I might. but the cpd's I breed them in plastic totes I put the parent tub up on a shelf in the fishroom, no extra light no filter no heater the room is warm enough. No disturbance for a few days at a time. The tubs don't have substrate because I change them and move things around but I do put in a heap of moss and some algea and leaves and some hornwort stuff that dosn't need much light I find they like dim lighting best and still calm water. I have a chinese container in the bottom with marbles and they spawn in that. Every few days I carefully lift it out take out the marbled gently and pour the water with whatever eggs are in it into another tote that does have light. And all I have in that one is shrimp to clean things up and leaves and a heap of moss and algae and its not filtered, it looks disgusting theres a tonne of mulm and detritus in there. I don't clean it change it nothing. There is live food in there. All I do every few days as I see more fry appear I take 1 or 2 at most micro pellets crush them to powder, put a tiny bit of that on my finger dip my finger in and out over the algea. Thats all I do. Theres more fry every day and they are growing with minimal input from me. When the oldest get big enough they could eat the newly hatched I will move them to a dirted planted tank. Thats my system its lazy simple and works. No chemicals no special filters no fussing no methalyne blue for the eggs I think the baby or small shrimp may clean the eggs. They don't eat them but they will eat bacteria and fungi and organisms growing on the eggs. I don't know for sure I have a feeling they have a role. lIt just works. I watch the tiny fry zip around eating and chasing things I cannot even see with a magnifying glass it's great I am so exited. They still cost $25 each in Australia the CPD's do so I am very happy to get them to finally breed.
You are a wonder Sarah.
You explain very well..thank u.
You are welcome 😊
I have a 10 gallon that currently houses a breeding trio of guppies. However Ive been wanting to switch it up for a while, i think breeding rams is the way to go.
Temp 82 min.
set up my 200lt tank (father fish method) 4 months ago, mainly for my two 6-7" featherfin catfish, i got 10 tetras, three cories and a young pair of german blue rams, just to have a few more fish, to my surprise, my rams are breeding, have laid about 30 eggs and are hiding them next to the big cats, as the tetras stay away from there...😊🤞👌👌
good jpb and good luck with the rams!
Hello Father Fish. How many small cichlid species, can I place in 29 gallon aquarium? What small species of cichlids are compatible? lI will heavily plant it. Also can I place shrimp, snails, other species of fish as well? Thank you for your knowledge and wisdom. You are the one that inspired me to get into dirted tanks and reignited this hobby in me again. I am grateful to you 😊
2 or 3 species
@@FatherFish Thank you. I need small colorful ones. No breeding, so no couples for me! One female Kribensis, I am thinking! I need 2 more hardy ones! Please help. I am also thinking to make a trip to your store in Venice. Are you open Monday or Tuesday next week? I want to buy supplies for my aquarium and learn from you. It would be great to meet you!! How can I reach you?:)
THANKS ALOT FOR THE INFORMATION
Good luck breeding these little beauties. Come over to Discord and tell us all about your efforts.
discord.gg/8DmmRE9Nq4
Hey Father Fish how are you? I do hope that all is well with you and your family 👪 ❤️ 🙏🏽... Thank you for sharing this wonderful video 🤗, I'm doing my research on these guys. I will be setting up a tank soon!... Father Fish's way! 🧐😉🤗🙏🏽💯💥
I appreciate that. Keep us posted at DISCORD: discord.gg/RUPV2nPE
Thanks you Sir, best advice sir
Most welcome Vipin. Best wishes raising a tank full of GBR.
Great content but I have notice from first hand that GBR only consume their fry at the begining of their parental care. The first 1st or 2nd spawn is usually not viable without intervention (removal) from humans. My GBRs have spawned 6 or 7 times and now they have become better parents and keeping the fry for over 2 weeks. Eventually I will have to remove them to avoid predation.
Interesting. I have not given them the option. Good advice.
I have 3 electric blue rams.... they don’t have black spots, but with the dorsal finage, I’m convinced they’re all males
Good trick if you have a lot of fish putting pressure on the food web and young fish to feed. This changes everything. Get another tank or even a big tote tub. I use a lot of tubs they are light when empty and easy to move around if needed and cheap. This is just for making live food for fish. Set up the deep dirted substrate get some plants in, if your in a cold climate put a heater in if you need to room temp for this though still works but you get more food in a warm tank. so plant it up put some neo caridna shrimp in cherry shrimp. Not a lot you also get to breed shrimp out of this. Get some cheap shrimp low grade reds because if they breed a lot you can feed those too and see how good the fish colour gets! But put all the leaves in the bark the stuff and leave it alone. No water changes no cleaning nothing. lots of live food a rich supply will breed and increase in here rapidly chuck some fish food in every now and then to give it a boost. you can just take a turkey baster and suck some muck from the bottom and put it in the baby fish tank or any fish tank and it will have thousands of critters. This works so well you can set up as many of these feeder tanks as you need. it takes no more work from you once its set up except to keep the water topped off and if you dont heat it too much that will only be once a week or couple of weeks. Its too easy. it will feed baby bettas from day 1.
it costs about $10 or so to set this up depending where you live and what you already have avaliable. the tub, some dirt I just use soil and clay from my own yard where its organic you just need to go out in nature to a creek or somewhere I dont even do that because no clean creeks around here but you can get free dirt and put that in then 2 inches of sand on top. Collect some wood and some rocks for the shrimp make a small pile of stones for the shrimp. And the plants if you have plants already just use cuttings of stem plants. You will never have to fuss and worry about feeding baby fish again once this gets going and the older it gets the better it gets.
this tank will keep working the shrimp will be fine anywhere from around 16 degrees CELSIUS and up. if its colder than that the shrimp will be ok but the tank wont produce as much food. just set a heater to about 22c and that will not cost much in power
You are a real pro Sarah.
@@FatherFish I am space limited tank limited and power bill limited haha and theres only one of me so I have to come up with solutions to make everything easier and cheaper. Trial and error and trying ideas and learning from others.
Fantastic show thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Great info …. Thanks …. My first group of eggs …. Wish me luck !
Best of luck! You can do it Tony. Keep us posted on DISCORD. discord.gg/2ZWFQ5rv
Loved the video! I have my first set of eggs in the tank now. Hopefully they make it but I wouldn’t be surprised, I have some really young parents I’m not sure how good their instincts are.
If they are caring for the eggs they should hatch them. Be sure to remove the parents or fry as soon as they begin swimming - about 2 days after hatching.
Just had my GBR clutch (20) make it past one month. I kept the mom with the kids for a month with the aid of a night light. DAD was moved when mom started beating him up.
Wonderful. Good job
I believe that a lot of the problems people have breeding these fish is chasing water parameters. The majority of videos on RUclips suggest having a very low TDS and a Ph around 6 or even lower. It is true that where they originate from, the Orinoco River the water is very low in dissolved solids and Ph can be as low as 5. I'm sure that if you collect these fish yourself from the Amazon Basin you would have to imitate these conditions just to keep them alive, let alone breed them. The point is that the fish that virtually everybody gets either from a breeder or their local fish store are probably 150 generations away from those originally collected back in the 1940's. If they are imported from fish farms they are certainly not bred in water even close to that found in South America. If you get them from a local breeder it is probable they were spawned in water similar to your own domestic water supply. The only water parameter that is critical is the temperature. Three times I tried to keep them at 75-76 and each time they just faded away and died. It was only when I raised the temperature to 82 that I had success.
Excellent review andy.
Father fish I have recently discovered your channel and absolutely love your detailed educational videos on fish keeping. They are such refreshing and thoughtful videos. I have a planted 75 gallon with GBRs 3 males and 3 females, 3 angels and 3 corys and a couple of the Germans have paired off and have claimed a corner. I am keeping my tank at about 83 - 84. If they produced eggs I was planning on siphoning them when they started swimming and putting them into a 15 gallon tank. Is it possible to use a tank as opposed to a jar? I’m guessing the big jar makes it much easier to keep the environment clean because you can siphon the bottom after feeding and do a full water change. Do you put a little heater in the jar? Is frozen daphnia ( I know I can get this) small enough for the fry? Thank you for your videos. I am learning so much. Sorry for my ignorance - I have only looked after African cichlid fry and Electric blue Acara fry .
Frozen daphnae is too large for fry. Try microworms if you can get a clture or golden pearls the smallest micron. I have both available with instructions on setting up a microworm culture.
@@FatherFish Thank you FF - next project is the deep substrate. Creating as natural an ecosystem as possible has
always been my goal.
I really enjoyed your video
Glad you enjoyed it April.
Very nice video and great instructions. Do you recommend any online site to purchase quality rams?
No. Let me look into that.
Really enjoyed this video Father Fish. Do you ever use co2 in your planted tanks ? ..
No. My substrate produces far more CO2 than is needed,
Thanks for another great video! I have a pair of rams I bought 6 months ago. They spawn every 2 weeks since then. They take care of the eggs and of the fry. The problem is that the fry, after it starts free swimming, doesn't eat anything. I have tried Hikari First Bites, JBL Nobil Fluid Artemia, live microworms, boiled egg yolk, frozen cyclop without the result.
The food is probably sinking too fast. Microworm is best. Also, if you leave the babies with the parents they will eat them after a day or two of free swimming. Come over to Discord. There are folks on the channel who will be happy to help you with this. discord.gg/8DmmRE9Nq4
Great video as always
Thank you ff 👋👋
I just got 4 GB rams, 2 males & 2 females. they are in my community tank. I noticed one of the rams goes very pale at times. At first I thought they gave me the wrong fish! maybe a Bolivian or Golden... but then I'll look again and they all have spots & markings!? is this something to do with breeding or maybe establishing a pecking order?
Male GB's are intensely aggressive
Thank you very much
Mine lay eggs and fertilize them. Hover. But after 2 days, eggs are gone. They had throughs, never used them i believe. Never had the chance to get them further than that. I am about to give up. 80F was laying temperature. What am i doing wrong?? No other fish or animals in the tank!
raise the temp to 85. The eggs are probably not surviving
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When in Milano, drop by.
Most excited to do so.
Hi father fish I've got my first spawn of blue rams there a week old now n all active and healthy be about 300 plus fry
That is a HUGE spawn Kevin. I hope you are able to raise many of them to adult.
@@FatherFish I've just had another spawn Thursday night so the last spawn is only a week n a half old and gonna have another batch next couple of days I'm hoping to keep as many as I can to adult hood to be able to sell them.
Any comments on hydrogen peroxide as an anti fungal? Also do you use RO water to lower hardness? Keep the lights on 24/7 for the first two weeks of wigglers and free swimming?
All good questions. For in depth analysis join me at my Discord channel. discord.gg/8DmmRE9Nq4
I knew I should've tried to find a video you did about rams before I bought a male and female. In the 10 days I've had them they have murdered 22 fish! By day I swear no aggressive behavior but next morning there are bodies and I mean shredded up no eyes or fin! I separated them into a 30 and am just gonna try to breed them but screw these fish lol
Great video, do they need specific gh and kh ?
No. Most are raised in hard alkaline water. Most impoprtant is temp. Must be above 82f.
All from basics to pro stuff for GBR`S
Appreciate your appreciation.
If I need more food I put tubs outside put water in load them up with sticks and leaves and dirt and big fistfulls of grass clippings, weeds I pull out I do not use poisons so it is all safe, and I put algae in the tub to get it going I put a lid on to keep the mozzies and dragonflies out because im culturing really tiny food. I let it marinate and stew for at least a week before I need it. I have big tubs of this gross mess haha it is full of tiny things the fry love and it costs me nothing. I have shrimp in every fry tank to clean up any uneaten food if theres no eggs I add snails. If I have eggs in the tub I do not add snails I just add shrimp. I get it going a week before I put any fry or eggs in. I have a huge clump of moss and algea and plants I tip the eggs directly onto and into that and I leave it alone and wait for the magic to happen and it does! It is the easiest method I have ever come up with and it works. You can add an airstone or sponge I don't usually I have at least 20L of water in there but I dont even put an airstone in what I notice the algea and moss forms a matt, The decaying plant matter and mulm produces I think Co2 I can't confirm what is actually happening but the moss has a lot of air bubbles and they burst under the algae matt and break the surface tension. I do not worry about a bit of film on the surface I just stir it now and then with a stick. The Shrimp are doing great so are the fry. If this was a bad idea they would not survive and they do and they grow. I have watched spawns of tadpoles and fish in the dirtiest ponds and puddles you have ever seen with no human intervention I watch this and pay attention and so I tried to do the same thing. But you must have living plant material in there as much as you can. I add a bit of the tub water from outside now and then to give it a boost of life. The eggs do not fungus the water is still I can sit and try to count the fry that is the hard part haha.
You go Sarah. Follow nature if you want to succeed. Sounds wonderful.
I know this is an older video, but this morning I woke up to a pair of rams guarding eggs. They have since eaten them, but I didn't even think I had a male and female as they both look like they have an ovipositor, they are also gold rams so I don't have the black spots to help me sex them, and neither of them appear to have a more pronounced dorsal fin than the other. I also didn't set up a spawning site with a flat surface for them, the eggs were laid right in the middle of the tank on a dark colored crypt leaf. Will females still lay eggs without the presence of a male? I had no intentions of attempting a breeding project with them, but if females only lay eggs if a male is present, I may just attempt to see if I can successfully raise some fry. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Next time pull the eggs to determine if they are fertile.
@@FatherFish what would I be looking for to determine that. The only breeding experience I have right now is live bearers and neocaridina shrimp. No egg layer experience.
Hello
HI TUAN!!
can this information be applied to bolivian rams as well?
Yes. Not much difference.
@@FatherFish thank you sir
Are Indian Almond leaves toxic to rams?
yes if they are plucked from the tree and dried. They must fall from the tree naturally, as with all leaves for use in an aquarium.
Do you feed the parents while they have eggs.
yes
Thanks. very helpful sight from new zealand😊
So my main concern is the parents laid eggs nearly three weeks ago all gone not surprised new together they are in there own tank and the male keeps chasing the female she keeps on hiding seriously thinking of putting them back in the main tank with the other rams good idea or not? Much appreciated to get the knowledge From you asked in the fish group here NZ about feeding drew a blank .
separate them and feed the female worms or some other high other high protein to get her eggd up.@@trishjury-eu5yd
Thanks very much will do 😊👍
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What ph do they need?
What ever comes out of your tap. Contact me if it is below 7.
@@FatherFish ok great, I was worried because I live in London and have really hard water like 8.5 and I’ve seen people saying they need to be 6 -7 or some even saying 4 - 6
@@jamess3408 If they are tank raised they should do fine. Try to find a local hobbyist who has them.
@@FatherFish Thank you very much. Setting my dirted tank up soon.
Why is it so important to only feed them one food?
Fish are creatures of habit. They will eat what is most familiar.
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Thank you for the awesome information
You bet! BN. Show us some pics of rams on DISCORD. discord.gg/c2Fu8paQ
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