How I Bred German Blue Rams At Home 

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What an awesome process! I had a male GBR for 10 months before he sadly passed. Watching fish that actually have and use parental care is quite amazing to see😍

This is an OUTSTANDING video! Articulate, well thought out, and captivating! Love the fact you have become so proficient with breeding such a great fish!

I have seen MANY of these Ram videos and absolutely loved yours! Great job.

An awesome video, covering pretty much everything. Rams have always enjoyed a special place in my heart. It is just something about their look, demeanor, and of course their fins speak. They are such handsome fish. I subbed.

Thanks for the tip about the smaller sized brine shrimp. Hope to one day hatch some rams to try them out on.

Thank you for this video. I ordered a pair of rams that will be shipped monday so im anxiously waiting for their arrival. This video helped me so much.

Excellent video mate. Explained everything really well.

Another awesome video you sir are differently becoming my go to videos I really love how you explain everything thanks alot get them coming please 👍💯

You make this look so simple.

Great detailed video my friend. Appreciate your insight and experience sharing 🤞🏽

Great video man, really impressed with your efforts 👍🏽

Another great video from you have learnt so much.Thank you

This was very informative!

Incredible information! Thank you so much! Great video 👍

24/7 lights work well with other pair bonding species as well. angelfish and discus for example. its not just a theory its proven. great video.

Most informative video I've watched on the topic!! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🐠🐠

very nice video and highly useful observations 🙂

Amazing video and explanations 😀

Superb video!!! Love GBRs

GREAT VIDEO. Thank you. I love my GBR and I have a feeling I have a breeding pair

One of the best RU-vidr, greetings From Germany 🎉

Your video was very well done. I have been breeding these beautiful fish for a while now and many of the things that you state are very important. I have not had any issues with the BBS being too large when they are 3 days old, however. I just keep feeding the vinegar eels for a bit longer as they transition to BBS. This gives them two things to eat at that time. For those that don't take to the larger shrimp right away, the eels are still there. Then after all of the bellies are orange, I discontinue completely the vinegar eels.

So detailed Thank you so much !!

Fantastic video,kudos to you

Thank you for this fantastic video 👌👌👌

It wasn't as easy but after 8 months and multiple tries I was able to grow some fourth German blue rams, mostly thanks to your advices..... Thanks a lot

Excellent video greetings and blessings from Bahrain

Amazing video thank you so much!

Amazing video. Very detailed. Has me feeling i could get those rams bred. Lol

Thanks for sharing

Thank you 😊 this is a big help

Awesome and informative

Good stuff bro....Hoorah!!

very informative vid. thank you

Great video, thanks

Great video 😊

INTERESTING AND ENJOYABLE VIDEO :) THANK YOU FOR SHARING :) THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)

Brilliant!

This os very helpful tips,i get existed to have rams😊

New subscriber ! First off I want to personally thank you for a very informative video! Not only do you take the time to carefully explain your breeding set up and as a hobbyist that speaks volumes about you as a person and hobbyist! You strike me as a perfectionist and your attention to detail is superb ! Now with that said I'm looking to purchase German black or dark knight rams whichever strain you are breeding, asking if you sell privately and if so do you ship ! I live in Cali and I believe there are only two breeders in the US that I would prefer to purchase from you or Dean (Dean's fish room) Problem is Dean doesn't ship and I think his missing out big, so do you sell and ship ?

Thank u

Absolutely amazing content right here! May I ask from which source do you get your research material? I would also like to have a look at it. Appreciate it🙏🏽

Wow these are beautiful Rams. Well done. I am really interested to know your water parameters in particular?

Amazing video! Am seriously wanting some GBR's! With all the feeding do you do water changes? If so, how much/often? Would love to try and breed them, they are soooo beautiful 😊

Excellent information Sir. 👏👏👏👏 Thank you so much for sharing. Ive definitely learnt alot and i did loose females to Male aggression as i do have them in a full black out tank..so maybe that was reason.. I've a few questions 1. Where can you get that smaller strain of bbs? Do you have a link? 2. Can you feed microworms as first foods? 3. How soon will the pair breed again after raising fry? 4. When you separated the female as you saw bulging stomach did they rebond being separated? 5. How did you do water changes and maintain water quality having tiny fry ? 6. What do you feed parents whilst feeding fry bbs or vinegar eels? 7. How often do you do water changes and % removed if they don't have eggs or fry?

perfect,u got New subscriber,thx

Great video thanks for sharing. Do you think boiled egg yoke is a good food for a first feed? Thanks in advance 💯

You should try Denison barbs next! Or puntius denisonii

Where do you purchase the potting planter ? How do you know if it's glazed? Great knowledge 😮

Great video! If I take the eggs out of the tank on the stone and put it in a tub with the air stone and melafix etc, do the eggs need to be kept at a certain temp? So I’ll need a heater too?? Sorry new to this

How do you keep the bottom of the tank clean while feeding the parents and frys

I’ve watched this video 10 plus times

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Hi good morning didn't you use a water heater to breed them the video was really helpful

How many times do you feed the fry?

I have a question regarding most types of sensitive fry that are a lot smaller than GBR. So far i have been able to breed danios, barbs, angel fish, corry's etc, but real problem kicks in with tetras. For some reason, i get complete fry die offs at arround 2-3 weeks mark. Before that, they eat, swimm and look very healthy. In some rare cases i got 4-5 odd fry that survived to adulthood, but all the other ones didnt. I tried raising fry in 5 gallon tanks, in 10 gallon tanks, floating them in a tub that is in 30 gallon tank (holes on a side of container so they share water), heater / no heater, dozen types of food including bbs, microworms, infusoria, powdered pellets etc. No matter what i changed, outcome was always the same. They hatch, they start free swimming, they start eating and swimming completely normally then at the 2-3 weeks mark all of them die. Couldnt be amonia spikes since i used filters, shared water with 30g tanks, daily water changes, etc. so im really in the dark here.... Do you have any clue on what might be going on? Im just shooting my shot here, since none of the FB / reddit groups have been able to figure out whats going on :/

İ enjoyed your video. Do you keep babies on osmos water? Or in simple fresh water?

I've been keeping fish since I was 9 y/o(37 now). Actively(mostly) breeding since I was 10. Keeping/breeding GBH's since I was 11. The German Blue Ram is one of my top 3 favorite fish in the world(auratus is another of my top 5 and I'm not sure about the third: another, complicated topic). I haven't kept any fish other than bettas and white clouds for the last 4 years. I recently got 3 paired(3 m, 3 f, mature, already bred, as a consolation prize since a raccoon apparently broke into their warehouse and ate 3/4 of what I paid for) adult GBH's and a male and female sub-adult electric blue(ordered 8 total electrics but apparently a raccoon broke in and ate 6 of mine, so they gave me 3 pairs GBH[REALLY not happy with the GBH coloration & patterning, they look EXTREMELY different and VASTLY inferior from their website but that's another matter. The electrics on the other hand are absolutely top tier]) and I'm so happy you've found such success with your breeding! Not EXACTLY how I would've done it, but there's many paths to the same destination. You seem to have found one that works well for you Might I suggest daphnia? I'll get into that at the end. One of my GBH pairs spawned just this evening(wasn't expecting it as I only got them about 2.5 weeks ago) and I'm surfing the Tube, looking for others' experiences and good ideas on top of/in place of my own process, and I'm happy I found your video. Good work, my friend. Daphnia(tertiary/adult[generally] feed for rams, I personally use infusoria initially then BBS and finally daphnia/bloodworms/blackworms(impossible to get in my state unless I want to spend over $110 for bloodyshipping)/flake/etc.) I cannot possibly recommend a live food more for any aquarist, in general. For a breeder, if you're not using some form of live food for at least a significant portion of your parents diet, you'll never reach anywhere near your full potential(if you're able to breed effectively at all). Imo, the single easiest, cheapest and best(all things considered) live food to provide ANY carnivorous or omnivorous fish is daphnia. Anything that's not exclusively vegetarian will eat, and relish, daphnia. Baby daphnia(which will always be included while collecting adults for the parents if you're using a BBS net to harvest - highly recommended) are about the same size as BBS, a little bigger. I don't use them as a substitute for BBS, but they're an amazing supplement and great variety. Stick a 10g Tupperware bin in a south-facing window, put a couple bladder snails or, if you use them(crushed) ramshorns as another live food(live snails will help the nitrogen cycle without relying on fish and ramshorns are MUCH more prolific than bladder snails and make for amazing cichlid food when crushed) and established tank water, along with nutrients(fertilizer if you want it to go fast, feed with cheap flake if not) and let it sit. It'll create greenwater(floating algae that colors the water itself green) and then buy a $15 daphnia bag from Amazon. In two weeks, 2.5 max, you'll have THOUSANDS of daphnia. A month, if you can feed them all, hundreds of thousands(maybe millions if you can feed them all; quite a task unless you've got an outdoor setup). You'll wind up with a different problem. How to keep enough green water to feed your daphnia. Your fish will never be happier and after that initial investment you're upkeep cost is damn near zero. Just a suggestion, but dude, DAPHNIA!

Did you use RO water and if so did you remineralize the water (is that needed?). I'm looking to get Rams but worried about the water parameters with using RO water with no minerals in the water (I think I have 14-18 PPM TDS in my RO Water) with a pH around 6.5 or so. I'm also wondering what you used for a home for the fry when you moved the rock into it's hatching area without the parents.

I have a sand substrate with a pair of Rams they have produced eggs but not sure if they were fertilised anyway no eggs survived but I'm wondering will the sand substrate be bad for the fry when they eventually succeed in spawning? Also I have 3 young Strbi corries in there will they try to eat the fry ? Tia.

How often do you change the water in the tank when conditioning the parents and for the babies? How much?

Hi, how many gallons is in 48L of water please.

Thanks for your good video. i want to ask you something.for making spawn you used vase. what is the pot made of ?

Great video👍👍. My rams (they’re black german blues) have stopped spawning for about a month, no idea why. Do you have any tips? Nothing in the tank has changed since they last spawned, and they’re a young pair so I have no idea. Thanks.

hi , how often do you change water in the container where they were seperated from parents ? thx

Hello, I would like to ask you for advices of how to breed a German Blue and a Gold Ram. I have seen them spawn 3 times already but after a day or two the eggs would suddenly disappear. I have seen a snail and searched up if it was a threat and I found my answer. I took the snail to another tank however they were on their 2nd spawn during this time so I had to wait for their 3rd spawn(the eggs were gone as well). My waters have a pH of 8 and a temperature of 84. Hopefully you answer. Thank you.

The most beautiful Cichlid imo.

What fry powder did you use and can i use it till they are big enough to eat baby brine shrimp?

i want them to raise their eggs but after a day or two they always eat the eggs. i dont know why, there is plenty of live foods for them to eat. is it because of stress or something? should i not let them raise their fry?

do you have to keep the breeder box aerated or with a filter? whats the temp for the breeder box or you dont use a heater for it?

I have a pair of black rams with 1 week old Swimmers, they're great parents taking time to share parental duties but concerned that I will soon need to remove the female, cause I'm sure at some point she will start Peking at a new flat rock or surface prepping to re spawn! Being watching your video! Would you suggest I remove her now or give her a few more days ! It's 1 week since the fry were wrigglers

I am artificially hatching my ram eggs. Have you ever experienced ram fry huddling at the surface of the tank? My free-swimming fry clump up at the surface of the water. Mine make it pass the wiggler stage and when it comes time to free swim they all huddle at the surface and eventually die.. They won't come mid-water or stay near the bottom of the tank to hunt for food.

First 10 seconds busted up laughing. Wish I had an army lolz

Great video. I had my nine rams for about a week before I noticed eggs. I pulled them, did the airstream and methylene blue and they hatched. Had about 150. When they began to swim, I fed them a powder diluted in their water. I dont know what happened but they all died on day three of free swimming. I did water changes in their dip and put box, which I kept in the tank so they would have the same temp, about 84 degrees. I'm at a loss, but the pair laid more eggs, and I'm doing it a over again. I just wish I knew why the first clutch perished.

I have 2 pairs or german ram in my tank, one pair shown sign of spawning, they worked together to clean one spot but the male for the 3rd time had no interest to spawn, the female tried to push him towards her area but he had no interest. This happened over 3 time now, any idea why? Thank

Hi, what are your water params for breeding gbr, i am planning on mixing tap water with ro water to get "perfect" params

How long after hatch are the ram able to be bred? I know it depends on a good diet and all but say 4 months?

Is it best to have a pain in a tank alone or will they still breed with a few other peaceful fish in there ? Thanks

How many water changes you make ??

Hey there, a perfectly guided video and I really appreciate your work. Can you please guide me further? I had a pair that produced two offspring. However, after a couple of days, the eggs completely whiten and become unproductive. the male, however, guards the eggs. It occurred twice. Unfortunately, the woman passed away. Two more women were added. Now that the old male and the new female had laid eggs, guess what? Same outcome; after two days of their complete care, every egg is now white. They aren't watching it right now. Yet another futile endeavor. I really wanna know where I'm lagging to care them. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks man.

I bought a pair 3 days later they've spawned after feeding brine shrimp I didn't do anything special

hello, just want to ask you as an expert , how to get your ram colours like a Rainbow, i recently bought a german blue ram and its pale , no colour just a layer of red on the fin except that nothing, i feed the ram pelllets and blood worms, what to do ???

Dude i have kept german blue rams.. And electric bliu rams as well.. Both at different times in a community aquarium. But they just never ate anything even after keeping the temp high. I really wish to keep them and breed them but this problem really demotivates me as they are really expensive as well

would the female still recognize the male even when removing for about a week? I am planning to remove my female as soon as they started free swimming because last time on day 2 free swimming the fry gradually disappear one by one, any tips? really great video btw

Since they lay eggs when they will start moving how many hours?

How many times need to feed food to parents ? 1 or 2

What is fry powder?

Can u have 2 different species in s bigger tank and breed both same time like apistos and rams

What was that plant... I couldn't catch it when you named it in the video. Thanks.

Do you ship

Just looking at your RU-vid video on your Blue Ram and so can you keep your Blue Ram in a 10g tank I have had two Ram but I just can't keep them from Die I have her you can not keep them in a 10g I feed them flack I tried to keep the tank at 6.0 and 78 75 and thay still Die so can you help me with this

I have a 48L tank how many gallons is that please ?

What temperature do you keep and breed em at?

And here you are stating that standard tapwater has been fine for raising Rams. Others have stated to only use RODI water l. I recently tried rams and they've been very difficult. First male died (unknown disease), second spawned then died (eye infection, treatment was unsuccessful) third male didn't initially spawn but now has attacked my female until submission and she died recently. Meanwhile the green neons sharing that tank are doing perfectly well. All the rams have been from different sources and I always select healthy ones. My tap water is slightly hard. All are local bred though.

So what do you do with these armys of tiny rams?

Which is the smallest tank that I can breed them? Is 5 gallon enough?

THANK YOU. Water parameters do NOT matter for tank bred fish, AS LONG AS THEY ARENT DEAD..100%. i mean obv no extra high or low pH and no extra high or low temps. 79-85. clean water tho

How often you do water change ?

Can I use a Blue Light at night?