Everybody needs to experience breeding a pair of adult German Blue Rams because they are simply gorgeous.

do male rams get little white spots as they color up for breeding?……not, NOT whitespot

I don’t think that Blue Rams get white spots as they turn older. The Blue Ram may be sick, is it acting lethargic?

I have one German Blue Ram male, in a community tank with my harliquen rasboras, cardinal and neon tetras, and my cory family( 2 albino, 1 sterba,1 schwartz, and a clown loach the cories call him uncle bob) and last but not least an african dwarf frog. What types of foods can i feed my german blue ram that i can feed my other fish as well? I know that i can feed it blood worms and flakes but, what other types of frozen or live foods can i feed my ram? Also i have one male ram in my community tank it killed my other male by taking a chunk out of its head. what type of pairing is best?

do female rams get very swollen abdomens just prior to spawing? or is her swollen belly something worse? She is still eating, although recently, past 36 hrs has started to surface breath now and then, then return to a more normal behavior. I’ve only had the pair since mon. thier color is very high and they greet me everytime i aprroach the tank.

German blue rams are a joy to keep. Very interesting fish ! Mine spawned in the plant tank and I didn’t have them 2 weeks yet. Eggs hatched and got to the wiggler stage but then disappeared. Rams are rumored to be bad parents. I watched them both taking turns guarding and fanning the eggs, chasing off the platy, as well as moving them to another area on the driftwood once they hatched. If one ‘wiggled’ too far down on the driftwood the attending parent would pick up the egg and drop it back with the others !

I’m determined to get free swimming fry now lol. Getting microworms ready too.

Get these fish, very colorful and really stand out in a plant tank.

I love Rams. They are great fish that are beautiful. If you have a large enough tank, you should add a few discus. My breeding pair of rams love to hang out with my Discus.

Oh my gosh - these small cichlids are just BEAUTIFUL! I agree with the top poster - everybody should experience the joy of keeping a pair of these fish! They are SO highly colored - and photos online don’t do them justice - as both the males and females have irridescent blue scales that are interspersed throughout their entire body. Just GORGEOUS!!

One note - it would be best to keep only one pair in any tank together - UNLESS your tank is super-huge (i.e. 55gal or larger) and heavily planted. We have just bought three - and we THOUGHT we had got two females and one male, but it turns out that we got two males and one female. The males are fighting over the female and also over their territory. They head-butt each other - which is where they get their names - “Rams”. This is perfectly normal behavior for males in a tank with males - but it may be undesirable for the inexperienced aquarist - or for someone who just wants a peaceful pair.

Sexing these fish is very difficult at first - but with a few pointers you can do it. Do NOT rely on the tall dorsal fin spines to tell the males - this is unreliable. Instead - look for the smaller fish that may have a SLIGHT pink/rose colored sheen on their underbelly - these are FEMALES. Also - the females mostly swim around with their dorsal fins NOT raised or fanned-out. Apart from that - just about the only way to sex the species is to watch their behavior in the tank together - the males will swim around posturing with all of their fins fanned out, and the females will be (a little) more subdued.

They are great for community tanks - in fact our Dwarf. Gourami swims right into them or lands on top of them during feeding and they don’t bat an eyelid.

Good luck!!