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Hey guys
just then i found round a heap of eggs layed by my blue ram pair!!!

the only thing im worried about is that i have 4 redatil rasboras in there and im thinking when the babis hatch, the rasboras will eat them. and the other probelm is that one of the rasboras have popeye which needs to be treated
should i take them out of the tank?
the tank is an aquastart 500
other companions are Foerschi whiptails and 2 otocinlcus!! im so excited!! and another lonely male which i have no idea how it ogt there in the first place!!
the parents havent eaten a egg yet.

The parents should guard the eggs/fry for quite some time, so I don't think that's really a problem.

But like always, having a bunch of other fish in a breeding tank is not really ideal...

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Mats

its not really a breeding tank! more realy a show/community tank which is in our dining room!

when do the fry become free swimming?

Best to move the Rasbora to a treatment tank

congratulations!
Rams make good parents, although you might find they eat the eggs first time around, but the female will be ripe with eggs fairly quickly. It would be good if you can remove the rasboras, although this might disturb the rams for a short time (rasboras can be difficult to catch in an aquascaped tank).
The other occupants might eat the eggs during the night, so it might be a good idea to leave a room light on, so that the rams can see to defend the eggs. They should hatch in 2 days and are very soon free-swimming. I don't know what filtration you have on the tank, but if its powerful it will suck in the fry. Ideally, you would have a very mature air-powered sponge filter.

By blue rams do you mean normal rams or electric blue like these ? >>>>>>>> http://www.aquaticquotient.com/gallery/ ... 000551.jpg

I saw some electric blue rams today at Wholesale tropicals (£14.00 each) , stunning looking fish.
None of the photo's on google do them justice, i think they should be renamed Metallic blue rams


Ps ... congrats

they arent the electric blue rams

today i saw some infertile eggs and the parents inly hung around the eggs not even eating them or fanning them so i did a water change and used a slow moving current to rub off any fungus i think the eggs will hatch either tomorrow or even today! when i do see fry i plan to syphon them out in a small seperate container

ok the fry hatched tonight! the male picked up the fry and spat them out onto of a cave thats is covered with black beard algae!!
they were very protective parents!!

now the babies have been moved to a new place where its quite densely planted and its where my foerschi whiptails like to hang out :/
they are becoming more protectivve!!

hi everyone
my electirc blue male and butterfly ram have just laid eggs 17.30pm sunday 13th june
there must be over 80 eggs. luckly there in a tank with 3 otto's nothing else, this is there 4th attempt. i just want to see wot the babies will be like wether they will be like mum or dad or a nice mix of the pair, any one have any info please let me no, plus i got lucky i bought my electirc blue rams at a auction and only cost me £4.00 the pair thxs i'll await your reply on the cross breeding