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| Date: | 5/24/2013 6:17:00 AM |
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i would definitely get a hold of german blues. they are going to be the most colorful, have the highest personality, and are much hardier than the bolivians. i have kept two together. i believe that is was a male and a female. unfortunately i was forced to make the decision to tear down that tank so that i could start up my saltwater system. i had to mix and match fish and in the end i was going to either get rid of my two angels or my two rams. i obviously kept the angels because they were my first two fish and my favorite. i was very sad to take the rams in, i had the pair living together with a school of cories, a school of neon tetras, and a dalmation mollie in a 10 gallon tank for well over a year. i like them because they flare their top fins and spike out. theyre really cool. they need to be kings of their tank. certainly other aggressive fish wont do. keep dither species and assorted catfish. ive kept them with pictus cats, danios, tetras, livebearers, cories and dwarf plecos successfully, so if you are going to plan a tank for them those are all good choices. what is also good is that they will thrive in a smaller aquarium, all they need is a good sized cave for their territory to defend. im a believer in packing your aquarium to the fullest and not making frequent water changes. crazy, quite the opposite. i personally, have found that if i change the water frequently my fish become stressed and tend to die. i keep high quality filters for my systems so that any detirious in the tank is just slapped clean. i have a biowheel for a 75 gallon tank on my twenty gallon tank right now. i think filtration is the key not water changes. i really only add water after it had evaporated. in the ram tank i had 2 german blue rams, 7 neon tetras, 4 cories, a guppy, and a dalmation mollie, all in a small 10 gallon tank. it was that way the day i set the tank up and the same way when i took the tank down a year and a half later. the only fish that died was the guppy, which could have been guessed since they are annual fish. i kept the mollie and the neons (which i gave to a friend eventually) and the cories. this has really worked with me with freshwater. i cant say this for everybody, but i taught my friend this technique, he started aquarium keeping 6 months ago and has yet to have a fish die since he started. the person who inspired me to go about tanks this way also cant seem to kill anything. shes had the same group of tetras, rasboras, and barbs for almost two years now. sorry about the novel. i just love talking fish. not many people on this sight want to really discuss their tanks. anyways, i am shying away from freshwater myself. i think after my fish die in my current fresh system i will transfer to salt exclusively. i like that is more challenging and is more hands on than the freshwater. like i was saying before, freshwater i think is just too easy in the fact that i just set the tank up and i dont have to d |
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