My GBR'S have spawned!

I noticed my female blue ram cleaning a stone in my tank on Friday night. This morning I have eggs. They are in a community tank so I'm not really sure what to do. They've become super aggro and take turns to defend the eggs and terrorise the rest of the tank. I'm trying to grow brine shrimp for the first time. Is there anything I should be doing besides enjoying the experience? :bigsmile:

 

Whooop Whooop. My green terrors just spawned today. Their other babies is in a growout tank and about 6 weeks old

 

Guys No pics = No proof :eviltongue:

 

+1... Pics or it didn't happen.

 

No pics therefore It didnt happen :cry: Got home and the eggs are all gone. Although I wasn't trying to breed them it was still awesome. Hopefully they will do this again soon. If they do, can i remove them and the eggs to another tank?

 

maybe if you use the same water from the previous tank.

 

Would I be able to take the rock with eggs out of water and transfer it to another tank? Would that work?

 

somebody with more experience in breeding will give you advice i dont know about that one

 

Need to do some research!

 

@MarcHawke

Congrats on getting the Rams to spawn.

No, you can not remove the eggs and parents to another tank and expect them to raise their fry.
They will just eat it shortly after moving it. Rams are bred for numbers across the world and I find most pairs take ages to raise their own fry, the instinct to do so bred from them ages ago.

You can remove however remove the eggs and hatch them seperate from the parents, if you care to. Should they hatch you need to feed them bbs as soon as they are free swimming.

Rgds

Marco

 

Ok Hijacking my buddy's thread here.... But here is my pics.
Next time you will get it right MarcHawke

 

@Marco - Thanks very much. How soon would I be able to remove the eggs from the parents. From what I have read they continuously fan water over the eggs and eat the infertile eggs to prevent fungus or infection. How soon will they try to spawn again?

 

@len.weideman - Get what right? The spawn or the photos? :bigsmile:

 

@MarcHawke

You can remove the eggs a few hours after they spawned. Yes, you need to keep water circulating around the eggs, an airstone placed close to the eggs set at a low rate will work. The eggs will probably fungus up, you can use methylene blue or hydrogen peroxide to prevent this.

Just please realise that dong things this way might result in more Rams that do not have the ability to raise their own young.
Its a decision you have to make.

Rgds

Marco

 

@Marco - Thanks. I think i'll let them do their thing and see what happens.

 

@Marco Do fish learn their parenting skills from their parents?.

 

@DewaldC

We discussed this topic on tasa some time back, shees,maybe two years ago. Its been hotly debated but in the discussion someone, dont recall who it was, pointed to an experiment conducted on Angels. In the experiment they used a pair of constant egg eating angels and placed their tank next to a tank which had a pair that raised their young without problems.
Upon "viewing" the succesfull pair raise their young, the egg eating pair then "learned" and succesfully raised their own fry.
Quite remarkable really.
On the website for TFH there is even a claim that the same experiment was done using a television next to the tank that showed a dvd of an Angel pair raising its young. Result? Pair raised their next batch of fry!

So, to answer your question - Um no authority, but evidence seem to point in the direction of it being learned yes, not genetically "inprinted"

Rgds

Marco

 

@Marco Wow that's amazing.

 

Hi

@DewaldC

It baffles the mind hey. Just goes to show natures amazing ability.

Rgds

Marco

 

The female has taken to hiding in amongst the plants. I have added more flat rocks and will do a bit of a rescape around these rocks to provide plant made "enclosures".