German blue rams

OKey everyone!!!!!! I just done some moving and replanting...... BUT NOT LIKING IT AT ALL...... So now I need opinions----- Should I make it a full gravel tank? have many plants I can still plant , Also I hate cleaning gravel, if I have only 4 Blue rams and about 10 guppies, how regular should the gravel be cleaned (gravel cleaner) and then uproot the plants aswell? Only single ones, most of them I have more of. ID will be apresiated of all plants and the wood still browning the water

 

Marius there are plenty rocks at Meiringspoort just outside De Rust, but you are living in the Klein Karoo where there are more rocks than ostriches, go take a look out of town.

@ Hawk, sorry to hear about the bad luck with the fry.

 

Thank you @slowpoke , ill go get some tomorrow or this weekend :bigsmile: , Just waiting for more opinions and stuff to drop in to know if im getting them or not, want to soooo bad

 

@Hawk , how regulary do you clean that gravel of your tank?

 

Hi again, no replys and I only have till tomorrow, any help :embarrest: ? @WillemNicolaas and @HennieRoux , just saw @slowpoke your ph is 8.3? now only about the gravel aswell, if I make it swimming pool filter sand, how often will it need to be cleaned, I want to get the tank finished before I get them

 

http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/showthread.php?16533-First-low-tech-planted a link to the new setup

 

Hi Marius, I siphon my gravel once a week with my water changes, this should be fine, I suppose you can do it more often, but once enough water changes is good enough!

 

More Marius, Jammer ek is nou eers weer aktief op die forum. was die naweek weg. Het jy reg gekom met die sand?

 

Hi Marius

I did respond on your new thread but regarding your plants:
Pic 1:
1) Vallis
2) Bacopa Monnieri
3) Not sure?
4) Ambulia limnophila
5) Not sure?

Pic 2:
1) Not sure?
2) Ludwigia repens
3) Microsorum Pteropis (Java Fern)
4) Not sure?
5) Hydrocotyle (not sure which one)

Pic 3:
1 & 2) Hydrocotyle
3) Hygrophila Polysperma (?)
4) Not sure

I hope that helps. Check the suggestions on the net and let me know...

 

Thanks @WillemNicolaas het gekry,net betyds . @Hawk all looks right, but Bacopa monnieri looks like that in pic, but its something else, I take a close up pic . I do like Hydrocotyle,all of them, but so hard to find. Ill also take a close up of the not sure ones- Thanks.. Id like if you guys would give ideas what plants to use or think something needs to be changed,but that I think must be talked about on the planted tread? I just need to change to bigger a light also will get those plant meds from dirk soon :facepalm: if the money is there :eyebrow:

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/Sorrwless/videos check out the videos also the rams, hope you enjoy

 

2) kinda looks like Rotala rotundifolia
4) can it maybe also be a Cabomba?
5) kind of looks like Elodea

 

Nice Rams Marius. Looks like they are pairing up already. :blink1:

My Rams laid eggs again so touch wood they get it right this time.

I will update my 100l thread with a pic of the tank.

 

I hope so, and thanks @Hawk , the big male was stuck again, where there is a small hole he is there, but I hope I removed the last place to get stuck. @Good_Times maybe its cobomba and ambulia all look the same? but got them from difrent places . How do you know when the spawn will begin? I noticed her pink was more red yesterday , just like my "albino"Pink"convicts I had years ago when she laid eggs. Saw early today the big male, when both the other 2 was fighting and he was loosing, he swims towards the other side to get them away while they are biting him, stunning fish

 

weirdest thing ever. since the male was stuck. the the other male moved to his female. now there is 3against the poor vella. the other male has both females now somehow

 

hahaha, what a Casanova.
Does the male that got stuck try to steal one of these females?

 

No,he is the largest of the 4, but now the scaredest aswell, he stresses alot and that stresses me


ALSO A QUICK POP UP QUESTION--- what dechlorinator should i use? one not killing bacteria(metaline blue)
Will be doing atleast 2 water changes a week

 

I use Seachem Prime. Seems to do the job.

 

The big male just claimed his cave, now the smaller male is bact to his first female and now the other poor female is being chased around, they are getting quite aggressive ............

 

Okey , did a 15percent water change , half an hour later all the rams fins looked a bit clamped and colour more dark, think the water was bit colder that I added, will this be the cause?