Alright mark, I just want to say thanks for the great videos over the years. For me you are the go to person for fish information and your step by step guides make it easy for even me to breed and keep fish. Thank you man. Peas out dude.
I found that the open spawners like rams tended to favour almond leaves to spawn on as if they instinctively knew that they offered anti-bacterial and anti-fungal protection for their eggs but we had them spawning on any flat rock or bogwood over the years. I love the gold rams. If you want any leaves just let me know as I still have hundreds which arrived the wrong size so I give them away no worries.
No worries, I have some boxed up ready to go out today. I think there is about 100 almond leaves and I put some Turkey Oak in there too. We had a huge tree in my garden which had to come down so I gathered all the leaves when they were brown and ready to drop, flattened and dried them and I did sell them online for a while but it feels better to just give them away. You'll notice they are much larger than English Oak leaves.
It is amazing to think how quickly I could have got there if I hadn't kept changing the types of videos I make or if I was all over social media, lol I'm not really bothered about figures for the channel - as long as it has something useful for people seeking information.
Hi Mark I raise Gold and GBR in the US. I have most success with parents raising their fry with no dither. They can get exhausted always protecting the eggs from being eaten. Every pair is different however. Good luck! Love your channel.
Hey Mark great video. Good timing too, I just recieved a group of rams this weekend. Five GBRs and one RAMbunctious Gold Ram. Curious to see what happens with them.
This, Must Be what is happening to my sevrums. She is getting spooked and Eating the Eggs..? Mark you're still showing me the ways of a good fishkeeper, great video as always thank you.
Very nice as always mark, not long back got myself a pair of rams, and they are sitting in my heavily planted community tank, hoping they will try and breed, so theres some good tips here
Dude focus haha. Thank you for this video. I have 2 balloon Rams but ithink they are both male. Perhaps in the future I can get a female. My water is really hard though so I doubt they would spawn. Awesome video and you got another subscriber.
Been waiting for this one! I was going to ask if you would do a video on them. Can't wait to see the results, like others I've tried so many times with GBR and they always eat the fry at some point. Never tried removing the eggs thinking this will pass the egg eating trait on to their off spring, next time I'll try and split them to edge my bets. I wonder if the separated eggs would be best kept in the same tank as the parents so they can see each other and maybe teach the off spring that they should hang around the fry instead of eating them so they don't do it when they grow up and spawn themselves? Great video Mark.
Okay, that’s common among fish. Those aren’t too good as parents, so you raise them artificially (like Mark). They will grow up fine, but egg eating is usually due to lack of experience or lack of a parent figure. That is a thing.
Another interesting video, loving these breeding series your doing. Getting me inspired to try this myself. Missing your sign off music. 🤔 always have that little tune stuck in my head...just me and my guitar...
My GBRams move the wigglers around the tank. They like the babies to stay on dried mango leaves (now soaked and on bottom) I have in the tank. There must be some good things to eat there.
I always get nervous breeding new species and trying to pinpoint when to begin feeding/when they’re done with their yolk sacks. I picked up a few electric blues a week ago and I just noticed last night they had hatched wigglers already! They’re just at the point of beginning to kinda freeswim. I had to pull them all bc there were other rams in with them.
Is there no end to your talents, its amazing how you go from species to species and breed. I find all your videos enthralling, I love it when a new one comes out. I have bred a few things from endlers to angels but trying my hand at L numbers now. Do you think an RO unit is a wise investment? Fantastic work Mark.
Hi Mark. Awesome vid again!!! Water in the zebra tank you said is around 6.5 using RO, do you use a buffer to hold the ph ?, If so what would you recommend, iv got Zebs and use an Ro and HMA mix, but would like to drop my ph down a bit with out crashing, our water here on the Isle of Wight comes out the tap around 7.2 and then shoots up to 8.4 within an hour or two, any info would be great, keep doing your thing Mark,💪
Wow that's a big jump in your ph. My Zebra tank is normally kept at a ph of 7 the only time i lower it is when I'm spawning them then I use ro or fresh rain water to lower it.
The pair have mated many times but generally eat the wiggler stage. I raised some from eggs and after all the trials and mistakes I have 4 mini GBRams looking like miniatures of their parents and are bold and already pushing the endlers around.
When you add the trickle filter, the water level will rise, how do you remove water? I can’t see a pump that removes the excess. Excellent videos though. Only found you last week and I’ve watched nearly all the videos already. 👍🏽 fantastic
hi mark got a question to ask I have a pair of german blue rams which have spawned twice but now they are fighting is this normal or should I separate them many thanks
Do you have any experiance with coldwater marine systems or know anything about them? Thinking about giving it ago but i cant find much info about them. Cheers mate!
@@MARKSAQUATICS just what exactly i need to do the tank like for tropical i need a heater so for cold water would i need a chiller? Also are there any laws behind collecting small critters from our shore as i cant really find anything about it or anywhere to buy captive bred stock. Cheers for the reply :)
Yes you would need a chiller. As far as I know you collect what you want from the somewhere in the uk . All you do is set it up just like a tropical marine aquarium without the heater. Just use beach sand or gravel , stones to scape it . One thing I would recommend it a good full spectrum light if you plan to grow seaweed ok as it needs plenty of light.
@@MARKSAQUATICS would a fan unit be enough or would i need to find a proper aquatics ac unit? And thanks for the advice ill give it ago in the new year after alot more research on what i can stock my tank with :)
@@bendakin3094 a fan would be ok with inshore species from rockpools because they can put up with temperature fluctuations. But you'll need a chiller if you want to house deeper critters. 😀👍
Admittedly I want Rams, but am realizing my current fish stocking would require a change. I'm certain my Yoyo Loaches would either ea or stress the rams to much to have success. They are constanctly moving my crushed lava rock around and rearranging my tank allot now.
I love these videos... you´re a real ´fish whisperer´! What´s the latin name? for some reason I can't find this exact fish here in Norway -the closest i get is Microgenophagus altispinosus... can that be the same? (not the same color here though). Probably stupid question...
The best way to tell a blue female ram is that her black spot on the side will NOT have blue spots on top of it. Males typically have a smattering of blue. And a more mature female has a redder belly.
oh, I know some breeders use guppies in the tank to breed their Plecos and Angels, I take a few cups of water from the Guppy breeding tank if they are taking their time to spawn.
You obviously have great success but I never needed so many dither fish present with either Gold, Blue, or Bolivian Rams. Actually stopped using them at all long ago.
hey there mark, Gold Ram's ow yes i'm really excited about this one i'll be watching this one very carefully, LOL you really do amaze me on how you get these fish to spawn and you make it look so easy LOL. Just bought meself two green phantom plec's which seem to be male and female with the way there behaving so i'm buzzin with that plus i also got 5 gold nugget's, only babies but an absolute beautifull fish
Alright mark, I just want to say thanks for the great videos over the years.
For me you are the go to person for fish information and your step by step guides make it easy for even me to breed and keep fish.
Thank you man.
Peas out dude.
Great video yet again, i cannot get enough of your videos , down to earth and to the point 👍🏻👍🏻 keep up the great work buddy
I found that the open spawners like rams tended to favour almond leaves to spawn on as if they instinctively knew that they offered anti-bacterial and anti-fungal protection for their eggs but we had them spawning on any flat rock or bogwood over the years. I love the gold rams.
If you want any leaves just let me know as I still have hundreds which arrived the wrong size so I give them away no worries.
The gold rams are my favourite to. If it's not to much trouble would love some more leaves. Thank you.
No worries, I have some boxed up ready to go out today. I think there is about 100 almond leaves and I put some Turkey Oak in there too. We had a huge tree in my garden which had to come down so I gathered all the leaves when they were brown and ready to drop, flattened and dried them and I did sell them online for a while but it feels better to just give them away. You'll notice they are much larger than English Oak leaves.
Thanks again. Won't be long now mate until you hit that 100,000 subs and get the old play button to hang up in the office.
It is amazing to think how quickly I could have got there if I hadn't kept changing the types of videos I make or if I was all over social media, lol
I'm not really bothered about figures for the channel - as long as it has something useful for people seeking information.
Getting spoiled with a great video every day!!! Love seeing them keep it coming!!! 🌟💫⭐️
Another great video Mark. I do enjoy the information that you provide. Thanks and keep it up :)
Great video. Very well informative. Thank you
Congrats on the fry. Looking forward to seeing these little guys mature. 🖖🏼
Hi Mark I raise Gold and GBR in the US. I have most success with parents raising their fry with no dither. They can get exhausted always protecting the eggs from being eaten. Every pair is different however. Good luck! Love your channel.
what is your ph??
Stunning fish, great against a dark bottom. Good luck.
Loving your breeding series Mark. Looking forwards to part 2
Gorgeous Pair of Gold Rams 🔥👌🏽
You make all this stuff look so easy . Great job love it .
What is the name of the lids that you put the fry into - with the handles please? I couldn't quite catch it.
Hey Mark great video. Good timing too, I just recieved a group of rams this weekend. Five GBRs and one RAMbunctious Gold Ram. Curious to see what happens with them.
This, Must Be what is happening to my sevrums. She is getting spooked and Eating the Eggs..? Mark you're still showing me the ways of a good fishkeeper, great video as always thank you.
Very nice as always mark, not long back got myself a pair of rams, and they are sitting in my heavily planted community tank, hoping they will try and breed, so theres some good tips here
did you tell us what temp you have them at,,I may have missed it,I am raising some blues to breed
Hi Mark,great vid of the rams,can I ask you what are the fry tanks you are using to grow the fry on ?Tia
Pets at home aquariums
Hi please advise you drop the PH level by RO or used Peat moss ?
Dude focus haha. Thank you for this video. I have 2 balloon Rams but ithink they are both male. Perhaps in the future I can get a female. My water is really hard though so I doubt they would spawn. Awesome video and you got another subscriber.
Thanks for watching and subscribing 😀
Been waiting for this one! I was going to ask if you would do a video on them. Can't wait to see the results, like others I've tried so many times with GBR and they always eat the fry at some point. Never tried removing the eggs thinking this will pass the egg eating trait on to their off spring, next time I'll try and split them to edge my bets. I wonder if the separated eggs would be best kept in the same tank as the parents so they can see each other and maybe teach the off spring that they should hang around the fry instead of eating them so they don't do it when they grow up and spawn themselves? Great video Mark.
Okay, that’s common among fish. Those aren’t too good as parents, so you raise them artificially (like Mark). They will grow up fine, but egg eating is usually due to lack of experience or lack of a parent figure. That is a thing.
good info mate, my rams eat the fry as soon as they become wrigglers, they guard the eggs until they wiggle then they eat them.
Do you have them in a community tank?
@@MARKSAQUATICS it's a ram tank, with two other pairs of rams. (Planted 240)
However there is a bristle nose in there too.(to keep the glass clean)
@@riosingh3235 keep a eye on the bristlenose they will try and eat the eggs at night. And also spook the parents.
Another interesting video, loving these breeding series your doing. Getting me inspired to try this myself. Missing your sign off music. 🤔 always have that little tune stuck in my head...just me and my guitar...
It's always there at the end of my videos. Or did i forget?👍😀
Yeah, forgot it on this one
Great video again Mark....your camera is awesome! What camera do you use?
Hi Steve. I use my samsung S9+ 👍😀
MARK'S AQUATICS WOW amazing results from a phone.....I assumed you had a top of the range DSLR camera!
My GBRams move the wigglers around the tank. They like the babies to stay on dried mango leaves (now soaked and on bottom) I have in the tank. There must be some good things to eat there.
You are really amazing! Could you breed wild Betta? Like Betta Albimarginata? I would love to see that Video
Luv the vids good job keep them coming
Hi mark, can u do another gold ram breeding video or maybe red jewel cichlid.. best if u can get a short body red jewel cichlid.
I always get nervous breeding new species and trying to pinpoint when to begin feeding/when they’re done with their yolk sacks. I picked up a few electric blues a week ago and I just noticed last night they had hatched wigglers already! They’re just at the point of beginning to kinda freeswim. I had to pull them all bc there were other rams in with them.
Hey Mark tell me are you keep light on after they laying eggs?
I keep the lights on there usual cycle. 😀👍
That’s fine. As long as you don’t blind them.
Hi Mark
Love this video. Do they have to be the same as gold with gold and blue with blue and such, I have a German blue and electric blue.
They will cross breed. 😀
What temperature do you keep these at for general maintenance?
24 degrees Celsius 😀👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS cheers surprised at that running my tank between 26/27 always fancied giving them a try.
Is there no end to your talents, its amazing how you go from species to species and breed. I find all your videos enthralling, I love it when a new one comes out. I have bred a few things from endlers to angels but trying my hand at L numbers now. Do you think an RO unit is a wise investment? Fantastic work Mark.
Hi John. yes an RO unit is a very handy piece of kit to have. breeding L numbers is a slow but very rewarding proses .
Great tips, your videos are perfect
Dude.... is there any fish that you don't know how to breed?!?! The H. Zebra fry are looking gorgeous :)
There’s always something somebody doesn’t know. I mean, he’s good, but comments in the absolute should be a bit tighter...
Great video mark.
Have you ever had the rams turn on eachother after a spawn?
Some pairs can get a little over protective of the eggs and turn on each other. If you see this It's better to pull the eggs and rear them yourself .
Some do that, they’ll eventually get used to it after a few spawns.
Hi Mark.
Awesome vid again!!!
Water in the zebra tank you said is around 6.5 using RO, do you use a buffer to hold the ph ?,
If so what would you recommend, iv got Zebs and use an Ro and HMA mix, but would like to drop my ph down a bit with out crashing, our water here on the Isle of Wight comes out the tap around 7.2 and then shoots up to 8.4 within an hour or two, any info would be great, keep doing your thing Mark,💪
Wow that's a big jump in your ph. My Zebra tank is normally kept at a ph of 7 the only time i lower it is when I'm spawning them then I use ro or fresh rain water to lower it.
Thanks Mark,
The pair have mated many times but generally eat the wiggler stage. I raised some from eggs and after all the trials and mistakes I have 4 mini GBRams looking like miniatures of their parents and are bold and already pushing the endlers around.
Fantastic. Yes they spook and eat the eggs very quickly .
Have you tried repashy food on the fry ? ( just about to try breeding rams my self )
It's great for fry just sprinkle a little powder in. Don't mix it. 😊👍
Hi Mark, will a pair spawn in the tank while there is other fish/rams present?
Hi yes they will but the fry will most probably get eaten. Best to raise in a separate tank. 😀👍
Thnx Mark, my black pair is busy with prespawn, will rather move the others then
When you add the trickle filter, the water level will rise, how do you remove water? I can’t see a pump that removes the excess. Excellent videos though. Only found you last week and I’ve watched nearly all the videos already. 👍🏽 fantastic
Hi Phil. There's a lift pump in the top chamber that sucks up the water and returns it via a sprat bar .
Can you show it in one of your future videos? Would be really interesting.
hi mark got a question to ask I have a pair of german blue rams which have spawned twice but now they are fighting is this normal or should I separate them many thanks
Hi. The male may be getting frustrated as the female is not responding to him . You can separate them for a week or so and then try again. 😀👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS thank you mark
great video
Do you have any experiance with coldwater marine systems or know anything about them? Thinking about giving it ago but i cant find much info about them. Cheers mate!
Yes I've kept them over the years. What info are you looking for. ask away. 👍😀
@@MARKSAQUATICS just what exactly i need to do the tank like for tropical i need a heater so for cold water would i need a chiller? Also are there any laws behind collecting small critters from our shore as i cant really find anything about it or anywhere to buy captive bred stock. Cheers for the reply :)
Yes you would need a chiller. As far as I know you collect what you want from the somewhere in the uk . All you do is set it up just like a tropical marine aquarium without the heater. Just use beach sand or gravel , stones to scape it . One thing I would recommend it a good full spectrum light if you plan to grow seaweed ok as it needs plenty of light.
@@MARKSAQUATICS would a fan unit be enough or would i need to find a proper aquatics ac unit? And thanks for the advice ill give it ago in the new year after alot more research on what i can stock my tank with :)
@@bendakin3094 a fan would be ok with inshore species from rockpools because they can put up with temperature fluctuations. But you'll need a chiller if you want to house deeper critters. 😀👍
Admittedly I want Rams, but am realizing my current fish stocking would require a change. I'm certain my Yoyo Loaches would either ea or stress the rams to much to have success. They are constanctly moving my crushed lava rock around and rearranging my tank allot now.
where abouts can i ask about breeding specific fish as id like to ask about a few (kuli loach and glass catfish)
You can search it up, but it’ll be a little hard, provably... I have never seen those spawned on RUclips or the forums...
I love these videos... you´re a real ´fish whisperer´!
What´s the latin name? for some reason I can't find this exact fish here in Norway -the closest i get is Microgenophagus altispinosus... can that be the same? (not the same color here though). Probably stupid question...
They all come under the latin name Mikrogeophagus ramirezi different colour morphs. 😀👍
Ah!.. Thx :-)
The best way to tell a blue female ram is that her black spot on the side will NOT have blue spots on top of it. Males typically have a smattering of blue. And a more mature female has a redder belly.
Both male and female look very similar finnage wise? How could u tell them apart when they're not in breeding mode?
What's the water temperature?
26 degrees Celsius
Hi do you think they would breed in hard water I’m down in Kent and it’s very hard water my ph is 8
They might. Add some India almond leaves and wood to the tank this will soften the water.
They are cute!
Hay mark how do you get all the live blood worms?
My local fish shop or from Ebay.😀
Down at the local stores.
Guppies there to produce hormones to encourage them to spawn?
No just to keep them calm .😀👍
oh, I know some breeders use guppies in the tank to breed their Plecos and Angels, I take a few cups of water from the Guppy breeding tank if they are taking their time to spawn.
You obviously have great success but I never needed so many dither fish present with either Gold, Blue, or Bolivian Rams. Actually stopped using them at all long ago.
Can we loo the Ph by adding indian almond leaf
yes. And also by adding bog wood.
Pls breed some bumble bee goby they are so cute!!☺☺☺☺
They are very cute 😁👍
Um... I don’t know. I mean... we could try...
hi, my ph is around 7.5, and i would like to breed rams and angelfish. is there any good way to change the ph to the levels mentioned in the video?
Hi. You can use wood or Indian almond leaves to lower ph.
@@MARKSAQUATICS I already have wood and Indian almond leaves in my tanks. It doesn't seem to be doing much
Have you got an RO unit. If not your local aquarium shop should have it. That will lower ph.
How old do they need to me to breed?
About 4 or 5 months. 😀👍
Thanks
Is that condensation inside the heater?... dun dun dunnnnnnn.
hey there mark, Gold Ram's ow yes i'm really excited about this one i'll be watching this one very carefully, LOL you really do amaze me on how you get these fish to spawn and you make it look so easy LOL. Just bought meself two green phantom plec's which seem to be male and female with the way there behaving so i'm buzzin with that plus i also got 5 gold nugget's, only babies but an absolute beautifull fish
Good luck with the phantom plec's .
thank's mark i'll keep everyone informed