HOW TO: Hatch and Raise German Ram Fry (German Blue, Gold and Black) 

Great seller and extremely helpful with any information that you need. Have brought Ram's of Justin & with continue to buy more varieties of him because of the quality of his fish. Thanks for your help & guidance in raising fry Justin..

Great video Justin, you and Nick make a good team. Keep it up

great info. thanks for showing so many different stages of fry.

Richard NZ, followed your steps and now have a batch of freeswimmers! Wohooo, thank you! Brine are hatching, for the next step.

Hello I watch many of Nicks videos. And I noticed that you and Nick do videos together. But now I came across your videos and was so happy to see them I truly enjoy watching you and Nicks videos I have learned so much from you Guys. I wish the bes tfor you. Thank you.

I like the idea of not giving live food for a first feed to avoiding Any harm for the fry. Keep it up and don't forget to update on the black ram babys.

Great sharing 👍. Thank you friend 😊

Nice 1 sir good job

Best video I've seen on raising baby rams, good stuff

Loved the video!! You made it look easy!! Please do more educational videos please!!

Enjoyed watching that process, will subscribe all the best.

Thank you so much Justin! I was able to get the fry out today.. Hopefully will be able to grow them with the tips that you have given.. Great video! Love from India!

Nice

Try using a paste and morter to breakdown the egg yoke with the tank water it wilorks great for me.

I’ve just found my way back into fish-keeping after years away from the hobby. Your and Nick’s videos were so inspirational that within two months I got a 480L tank, 2 x 250L tanks and ten small 35L tanks, with about 10 Dark Night Rams, Ten Electric Blues, 15 GBRs and five Golden rams 😂 I curse you and salute you at the same time! Anyway, today I had two pairs of electric blues start spawning after a water change… what was the first thing I did? … Went straight back to your guy’s videos for advice and next steps. It’s 8pm now… fingers crossed for eggs in the morning. Thanks for all the amazing content guys, I’m having fun 😎💪🏼

Great vid mate 👍

Thank you for sharing. Do you need to change the water while feeding them with egg yok.

I like the idea

THANK YOU!! I followed all of your videos (and some of Nick's) exactly to a T and now have an army of almost 100 two week old healthy Rams. First fish I've ever bred and I owe it all to your amazing videos detailing out the entire process. I watched a bunch of Dean's (Aquarium CoOp) videos but he only really goes into getting the Rams to spawn...which is the insanely easy part. Man...those 2-3 days of free swimming was a VERY trying few days. I kept comparing my egg yolk mixture to the viscosity of yours and think I finally got it right. They took to it no problem. I was WAY overfeeding at first and cleaning that fry box is a total bitch (also thank you for the video on that, very helpful as well). I think I finally got the nack for not sucking up fry and returned some of my sanity back. I was hoping you could answer a few questions for me, when you have the chance: 1. For maximum growth, should I be feeding BBS for every meal? I work from home so I've been feeding them every 4 hours and their growth seems to be booming. I've been mixing in Golden Pearls into their diet, will this limit their growth compared to all BBS diet? I try to feed the pearls first thing in the morning when they're most hungry and alternate throughout the day and they seem to go for it just as aggressively as the live BBS. I'm thinking with the egg yolk starter food method you taught me to use, they're already used to non-live foods so maybe this isn't as important? Hoping to cut down on the BBS I hatch to save money but also wondering if, after 2 weeks, I could cut out BBS entirely and feed only high protein foods. Also, I have other high protein food I'm hoping to feed them but the smallest size it comes in is 0.1mm (1000 micron). Do you know how old they'd have to be before I could get them on 1000 micron food? I have them on 100-200 micron golden pearls at 2 weeks old. 2. I had the fry in a tupperware container for the first two weeks, doing 2-3 80% water changes per day. Siphoning that out through a 1/4" airtube is the worst and the first piece I'd love to cut out of this experience. After the 2 weeks, I moved the fry to a hang on breeder box like the one partially shown in your video. Any reason I couldn't put them in their right after the methelyene blue stage when they first start wriggling? Make a quick transfer of the rock. Or maybe when they first start free swimming? Also, any good tips on transfering the small Ram fry from container to container. I just literally poured them from the tupper ware directly into the breeder box and...all is good. Used your turkey baster method to wash out the stagglers stuck to the bottom. I figure if they can survive getting sucked down an airtube when cleaning, this shouldn't bother them. Thank you so so much again. I wouldn't have been so successful without your help. Also, thank Nick for me too. Feel free to answer none or all of the above questions, I'm sure it's all stuff I can guess and test with myself. Just really glad to have the leg up you guys are giving me.

Justin when do you take the fry out of the multi cure. What water do you put them in.

Awesome advice and video on hatching ram eggs.👍👍👍 I've a few questions if you can help answering. 1. How can you be certain that the pair has finished laying eggs? 2. How long do you leave the eggs with pair to ensure maximum fertilization before removed to artificially hatch? 3. When you add eggs to the bowl do you change any water before it hatches? 4. Can you feed powderized fry foods or even infusoria as 1st foods are they need the egg yolk emulsion? 5. You mentioned that you do 80% water changes daily when do you start doing this? From hatching or only free swimming stage? 6. How to you replace the new water? Drip acclimate? 7. How often daily do you feed the free swimmers? 8. If possible could you do a series on raising the fry at different stages of growth and when you switch to other foods etc??? 9. Can you share what's your water parameters for breeding rams? Like ph, temp, tds , tannins etc Thank you Sir. Keep up the Excellent work. 👏👏👏

Hi Justin, heard about your channel through Nick. I'm a neon tetra breeder but am giving breeding GBR's a try. My first spawn are wrigglers that will be free swimmers in about 24hrs and I was really unsure what to feed before BBS, thanks for making this video as I have learnt that egg yoke works. So big thank you for sharing your experience!!

Thank you Thank you!!

Thanks bro really helpful

Gday great channel new sub sent from keeping fish simple

Good Stuff Bro....Hoorah!!

Hi just wondering. I have wrigglers now. When do I remove the methylene blue ? Thanks

When starting off in the new tub do you use water from the tank that the eggs were layed in, fresh tap water or do you use a mix?

How did you get the eggs out of the original tank?

This a very educational video for beginners like me. I just wondering how you set up all those fry bowls and containers on the top of your tank and where you found them?

What do you feed newly hatched ram fry

Do you also feed hikairi first bites? I have my first batch of long finned gold rams wrigglers hatched today. Getting ready to hard boil an egg. Thanks for the tips. Do I need to keep the water over 80 degrees? or just room temp 78-80? I had no methylene blue so used a small Indian almond leaf for antibacterial. thanks so much for vid.

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. Is this due to them being scared? I hatch my fry in a clear breeder box.. I see that you use a white non-see-through container. Is this for reducing stress levels?

Hi Justin, I appreciate you putting this info up to help us out in the hobby! I have a few questions. Is it ok to keep multiple breeding pairs of black rams in a 40 breeder? or just a single pair? Once they lay eggs, I'd like to let the parents do their thing but I imagine them not doing too well with multiple other fish in there. If it's better to take the eggs out; we plan to put them in a large external breeder box attached to the side of the tank. what are your thoughts?

How often you water change after giving them egg yolks when theyre free swimming already? Do i need big containers? Is it okay in the water tank for changing water?

My pair of rams layed eggs past friday for the 1st time. I removed the eggs and did everything like you showed in the video. This morning (around 60 hours after the spawn) I found wrigglers on the bottom of the container. Some hardly move but others already swim to the top. When should I start feeding egg yolk? Also have an airstone in the container, but I wonder if it makes to much turbulence in the water for the wrigglers... Thank you for sharing this awesome video!

You said you use multicure What brand or what is that please ?

I have a black ram pair that have laid eggs 3 times. The first time on a leaf. They hatched and then they ate them. The last 2 times they laid them in the substrate and then ate then within 2 days. I was gonna remove them and hatch then myself but I'm not sure about gathering them from the substrate. Do you have any pointers? I really want to get some fry from them.

This is great video! I just started trying to breed Black rams and I’m using your hard boiled egg as a first food! How many times a day do you feed the egg yolk?

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 :/

Very impressive! Sending warm wishes (however germy!) from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida...

When do you change their waters after the first feeding or first free swimming stage?

hey just wondering if its good to use ro water instead of tank or tap water

Justin,,, can you tell me the best way of water changing when the fry are only days to weeks old..if using spirulina x eggs feed? I freak out on doing this as I’m scared of sucking up baby’s or ? Do you pipette mucky egg water out or ? I think this is where iv lost fry of diff species in the past by not enough water changes, Im told every couple of days but I leave it for weeks as I’m scared todo it (when fry are just days old I will soooo careful pipette each n every one out and gently place them into a new one gainer to straight back in tank floating on surface or using a fry holder suctioned inside on glass. (usually I have never had hundreds like you lol, so it’s not a massive job) what’s an easier way of water changes with out fear of losing fry but also good enough to get rid of any debri/food muck ,….Lisa

My Bolivian rams just laid their first batch of eggs. Im so excited! However since im moving tomorrow i will have to take the eggs out of the tank or they'll die haha. Thanks for this video! Very useful information :)

Hello. 1. When they are eggs yet, do I need to water change everyday? I added metheyline blue. 2. When they are wigglers and free swimmers,do i still need to water change? How? I’m afraid to drop them all to the sink.

i just started to spawn my GBRs and they are in the wriggler stage. Im planning to adopt some of your methods for future spawns. But for now i have my wrigglers in a 4 gal tank. I put a heater on it. my question is. is it a heater needed? Im in the Philippines its typhoon season and temps go down to 26 deg c around 78 deg F. or its ok.

My German blue rams have laid eggs on gravel for the first time how would I go about removing them since they gravel is just big enough to hold one or two eggs

So you skipped the whole part of how you get the eggs out? My black rams are literally spawning right now, and I’m not really sure how to get them off the driftwood without damaging the eggs. Thoughts? Do you just gently brush them or something into a separate container?

Good one bruh

I have some fry in a fluval breeder box. I put some Java moss in there. Should I take out the Java moss or leave it in there?

Hi Justin, would you mind to help? I had a few batches of fry having the same issue when they to free swimming stage. They pretty much just hang around in the surface once they started free swimming and ended up died a few days later. I had airstone turned on the whole time, methalyne blue added , temperature 28 degree Celsius. Do you know what’s the issues? Cheers

I tried feeding egg yolk to my discus fry but it fouled the water really quickly and was hard to clean up uneaten food. Do you not have this problem?

My ramfry are going to be free swimming pretty soon. how often do you recommend I feed them the egg yolk for the 1st 3 days?

Trying to get my Rams too pair off is impossible I have 2 males and 2 females in a 71L planted tank with sand substrate iv I can get a pair I have another tank to take away the remaining 2 fish. The bulling is terrible though. Any advice on what I could do ?

Just found some eggs, and your videos are very helpful. Can too much methylene blue be dangerous to the eggs? I think I put too much in the dip and pour, so I diluted it as best I could.

Hi Justin .... It's Mike from Orange county New York... I have very hard water and I'm curious if you use water with a water softener will that work... Also would like to see a video of you making the egg yolk food for feeding the wigglers...

Hey Justin, thanks for informative video. My first 300 fry of blue black rams died after they were free swimming because the food I give them still too large. I like the boiled egg yolk food. Can you tell me on how long the egg yolk last? Or do you make fresh one every feeding? Also, how often do you feed them the egg yolk and for how many days before introducing them to BBS? I hope to hear your answer soon as I have eggs now with GBR, BBR and EBR. By the way, is it normal for rams to lay their eggs on substrate rather than a black pebble? Thanks for your time and I appreciate a response. Thanks.

Is that a normal behavior when a day or two free-swimming fry always stays on the top of the water? And how old before you transfer the fry to a bigger tank/container?

Great info, my German ram breed couple of weeks ago I isolated the breeding pair in my aquarium corner before The eggs hatched and they started wiggling on the third day, literally 95%hatch rate. The 4th day I checked them out and found nothing :( this is the 3rd time breeding for this pair so what could have happened?

do you separate the gold fry from the black? all my dark nights seem to die and the golds and a few blue rams i think survive. some people say the golds are more agressive eaters? any tips

Are you changing the water on the wrigglers?

I would like to purchase these true black rams. Any suggestions where I can find them in the States?

What do you mean by “fresh water”? Do you mean that hatching bowl is filled with 100% dechlorinated tap water? Or water from their parents tank?

How long until you switch from egg yolk to baby brine shrimp?

How long does it take for the eggs to hatch

I am new in have Blue Ram in a tank I like your youtube videos on the Ram I like you to keep doing more youtube videos on what size tank you keep them in once they get big I have 1 Ram in a 10g tank and I like to no what other fish can you keep with them and the pH you keep them and what Temp is best for them I have 1 and I keep it at 80 to 79 is that ok can you help me with this

Could I feed my free swimmers tropical fish flakes crushed up would that be easier

any chance they would lay eggs inside caves?

What the blue thing you use call

I have a spawn of GBR and most of them are sliding around on their sides...they are nearly a month old. I'm reading that feeding BBS to them is the cause? Has this ever happened to you? It's really distressing.

Have a few follow up questions: How often do you change the water between getting the eggs in, to when they are free swimming? Do you remove the white eggs? If so, how? Haven't had luck with a pipette due to their small size.

Hello Bro, can you show how you made your setup please and thank you 😊

Day three of my GBR fry! Still alive! Parents are currently doing a great job. I have them in my 38 gallon with their parents, only. Feeding First Bites ok? I did egg yolk once and got too many chunks in. Any tips? I have no access to live anything.

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You can ship me a few ram black hard to find . Lol

I think that multicure is acriflavine based

Dude you should use a mic 🙄

Alright, let’s see how well I learned…wish me luck!

I see that you're pretty good about answering comments...i'm almost ready to breed some rams....was curious about the possibility of getting a pair or group from you...my only source is petco and have no idea how or where they were raised...i hoped that we may be able to work something out...i sure hope so...just pm me or email me @ guitardavelr@gmail.com thanks..