THOUSANDS of RARE Ram Cichlids! How to Breed Rams Cichlids Easily! 

Wait…i just picked up a pair of german blue rams that were darker than normal….and got them for 6$ each…must’ve gotten a killer deal

Nick, don't beat yourself up. Sounds like you're still learning. You've got a lot going on! Kudos to you for taking on such an endeavor to begin with. As long as you continue to learn and grow you will eventually be successful! I love Rams, they have so much personality. I am not currently keeping fish but, someday I would really like to get back into the hobby. Best as always!

Great video as always and super informative. Keep up the good work and continued success to you.

I love your dedication - really refreshing

What a day! I was literally rewatching some of the old videos and this popped up. 😩

Thanks Kevin really enjoyed it and also looking forward to the fry system build as I would like to build one soon myself 👍

Great info, will use some of your techniques with my new ram breeding project.

Finally caught one of your videos early, keep up the good work mate, i love your videos.

I love black knight rams. Great video to show the breeding up and downs, its a lot of work. You amaze me, all those tanks, breeding, selling, and doing videos on top of it. Have you thought about using a sponge filter from the main tank to link the output into the fry tank instead of using a pump

Great video, much appreciated. Many thanks from across the pond in Oregon.

Proper system you've got going there, impressive stuff 💯

These videos make me love rams even more. Curious to see what the new system's like!

I really want to try give breeding rams a try, they are such beautiful fish with wicked little personalities. GREAT VID!

It’s literally been 4 minutes since this video dropped !!!! The video is over 20 minutes !!! Watch the video and show some support !!! When people say I am first lol 😂 ya the first to not watch the video 😂

Love your content mate very interesting,having breed discus and angel fish both ways your learning the best way by your mistakes which is the right, no one does it the same all the time keep it up 👍🏻

Excellent and educational. Your dedication and willingness to share helps everyone learn and hopefully appreciate what it takes to get quality healthy fish to our aquariums at home.

Hey man I love your channel. I have kept fish for awhile and recently started to get out of the hobby. However your videos of your room have relit a spark. Thank you!!

Thx for sharing 😀

Hey bro...love the content!!! I'm from Trinidad 🇹🇹

Happy New Year’s mate, you’re really doing great with all these projects, keep up the great work, love watching your content

Literally watch all of your videos Really enjoy them Keep the vids coming 😊

Great video!!

This is awesome 👍

Goog work.Nice beyby fisch.

Congrats on all the successful breeding! Much more success to come and can't wait to see the new projects and fish room over the year! Keep up the fantastic work and an awesome video for the first video of 2022 haha! 👍

Never give up yall!!!

Awesome video Nick, its great seeing all your ram breeding videos. They are my favorite fish because of there large personalities. Was the plant in the ram grow out tank a onion plant? (crinum calamistratum). Can't wait to see the full build of the new fry system, i have my own mini system based of Deans as well.👍👍

Hey nick loving the Rams! I was wanting to ask if you would like to be a guest on my Livestream. I would love to discuss breeding Bettas, Rams and Egg scatteres and Angels. Even if you are not keen keep up the amazing work!

I have every time of ram except the dark knight rams, def need to get my hands on some!

your black rams are really nice. I just got a pair of electric blue rams today. but their very young. I wonder what a midnight / electric blue Cross would be like. probably not how I imagine lol. but your channel is awesome. I love your videos. Happy New year 🎉

Nick - Happy New Year! Inspired by your awesome "keeping it real" content, I recently bought 4 juvenile GBRs from a local shop, doing my best to select what appeared to be 2 males and 2 females. As luck would have it, they paired off almost immediately upon relocating them into their new tank and one pair laid eggs on a piece of slate within the first week. Given the fact that I was not expecting this to happen so quickly, I was not prepared to remove the eggs and hatch/rear them in a separate tank. Since that time, I have separated the pairs, placing a pair in individual tanks. Each pair has successfully laid eggs every 10 to 14 days with no success of rearing the young on their own (the best they have done is reach the "wriggler" stage and once I saw a few fry free swimming before they were eaten by the parents). Deciding that I needed to remove the eggs and rear them on my own, I have since set-up a separate 10 gallon hatching/rearing tank which contains 2 breeding boxes. Yesterday, one of the pairs laid more eggs and I am planning to placing the flat rock on which they laid into one of the breeder boxes in the separate hatching/rearing tank. But before I do, I have a couple of questions for you: 1. When preparing the tank with Methylene Blue to prevent unfertilized/dead eggs from developing fungus and spoiling the batch, should I follow the instructions on the bottle and dose the tank at the prescribed amount of 1 teaspoon per 10 gallons? Or is that too much? 2. Once the eggs hatch, should I remove the Methylene Blue from the water via a significant water change and/or the use of activated carbon? 3. I am planning of initially feeding the fry a combination of egg yolk and Hikari First Bites, before switching over to live and frozen BBS. Is there anything else that you would recommend for some of the first feedings that is easy and readily available? (Note: I have Repashy Community Plus, but wasn't sure if that would work well in a diluted mix.) 4. Is it "normal" for GBRs to lay eggs every 10 days or is that rather quick? Thanks for your consideration and keep up with the great work! - Steve

Late happy New year's from the caribbean

I used to breed Bristlenose and Endlers, fed thousands into the aquarium shops where I lived then, I had two main tanks, bedroom and lounge and a four tier shelf with 18x18x15 tanks to keep them individual so I knew which fry where which, I'd advise that for fry, for a filter I used one external rated to a 400l tank and a pipe system so each ran down to the next from the top down to the filter if I remember correctly, I had a pretty bad breakdown and lost it all, had bad people around me !

Wonderful.

Great! I love your system and how you showed us all the different stages! I think you need some wireless headphones!!

Congrats on ur breeding mate i lost well ove 200 close to week old really dont know what happened all water parameters was spot on fed just learning curve was happy on how many i hatched aswell for my first time but been looking in my tank last couple ove hours ive noticed my female ram playing up she dont know what area ove the tank she wants to try lay in but my male gone on mad one to hes making sure he keeps all ove my fish away from were ever she goes hopefully in coming days i have more eggs layed

Shivers!

Whats up legend???

As always, great to see and hear from your fish room. I can see you spend a lot of time editing your videos because they always come out ideally perfect. We saw only two (you said there were more) but out of a 100 fry spawn, how many do you think come out a black knight quality? 5%? 2%?

hello you have a lot of experience you learned by yourself

Hi baby😘 thanks for sharing

Hello Nick, another great video showing what it's truly like running a fish room. I'm curious are you decapsulating your brine shrimp eggs? I have someone in my area that has way more experience than myself that I talk with frequently who noticed his Rams were dying at a higher rate. Under a microscope, he determined they were dying from the shells binding them up. After following a few methods to decapsulate my brine my survival rating almost doubled. Definitely worth looking into if you haven't already.

You should do a video on how to breed plecos

Awesome

hi what temperature do you breed the rams at? what are the water parameters ie hardness and ph, thx im enjoying your feed its nearly 40 years since i breed rams but i returned to the hobby tryed a few l number plecs but they are a bit hidey so goi g back to dwarf cichlids dark rams seems to a worthy goal do i have to buy dark rams or can they be bred from german blues?? l

I had a electric blue ram and german blue ram lay eggs. 2 days after they laid eggs, they hatched and I was waiting for the typical 3-5 days after wiggler stage to be free swimmers but only a few would pop up and fall down. They never all actually "free swam" around the container. I didn't feed them because I read that you should wait until they all became free swimming to feed them. The little breeder box filled up with ammonia fairly quick so in those 8 days I replaced the water with RO water maybe every other day, or about 3 times. On the 8th day morning(still just wiggling with maybe 15-20% jumping up and falling down again) I thought I should put them in a larger netted breeder box and after checking on them a few hours later they had all been sucked through the netting by the fish underneath. Have you ever had a problem with rams taking a long time to become free swimming? Should I wait for them to all become free swimming or start feeding when the first ram jumps up and falls back down? I use only RO water at 81degrees for every tank and replaced the water when the ammonia got high so the only thing I can think is I didn't feed early enough???

Nice! I find hydrogen peroxide works better than methylene blue for hatching. And for viable eggs, just keep TDS under 100ppm in general. In the wild, rams come from water as soft as sub 30ppm. For anyone interested in ram breeding, also check out The Ram Tank page on Facebook - good resource and some interesting strains.

What tempeatures do you keep th Rams? my local chain store in the UK always has them on sale and they always look good and are cheap at something like £7 or £9 for a pair but even though I have two 40 Gallon community tanks that they could go in i've never got them as wen I read about them people always say keep them at 80-82f when my tank is around 77f(25c). I could make my tanks warmer but I keep them a little cooler since it's fine for the fish I have Corydoras, Bristlenose, Platy, Honey Gourami and Ember and Rummynose Tetras. I don't want to get them if they will just die but in the store they don't have a heater in their tank and they are also not kept on the top row or anything which would be warmest, also to the touch their tank doesn't feel warmer or anything so I feel they are not in that warm of water.

Real cool video.. Must be very satisfying and rewarding rasing so many frys.. Wonder what's like to keep thousands of adult rams in a huge tank.. Must be a breathtaking sight to die for.. What's the lifespan of an average ram if i may ask? Keep up the cool and best of all work. Cheers!

Thanks for the video. I have 2 golden Rams that are actually orange like gold fish. Is that normal? I really like these fish. Keep us posted with new videos.

Hi, do you happen to know of dwarf gouramis can go with guppies?

What’s the ph and general harness like there in Brisbane?

Does the egg yolk last for quite long or can keep only for few hours? Btw, you have really amazing contents about keeping fish simple specially GBR and I'm starting get fond of them as well.

so many rams

Hi, I know I'm writing a year after you posted the video, but something caught my attention... I see you have Panda Corydoras with Rams... What is the temperature in your tank? Panda Corydoras need a temperature of approx. 24-25 celsius and Rams around 28-29 celsius... How do you balance that?

I like what you're doing and how you explain can you please upload Rainbow fish breeding system thank you

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.

When you put the eggs in the methylene blue water do you change the water after they hatch or how long do you wait?

see if you can get your hands on some san francisco strain brine shrimp eggs. they are a smaller species of brine shrimp than the common stuff and make the rams accept them easier

Picked up some rams last month and they just spawned last week. Unfortunately they’re still figuring it out and the eggs ended up covered in fungus. I’d really like them to do it the all natural way but I may end up pulling the eggs on the next spawn.

Are german rams able to live in small groups? Heard both yes and no. I put a pair of gold rams And a pair of blue rams in my 4 foot long. The blue female is extremely dominant and bullied the other blue so I had to put him in a separate tank as she was chasing him away from eating. I would like to add a female electric blue ram to make back up the 2 pairs in the tank, what's your opinions on how friendly does this species tend to be ? Thanks

I've got my rams fry free swimming yesterday. How long will it take for them to start eating? I've been trying to feed them some first bites and vinegar eels but they don't seem to be interested at all. I'm afraid they'll starve themselves

Hi nick please let me know eggs hatched after how many days we need to start feeding?

First 2022 vid!!! 🥺🥲❤️❤️

How large of a tank would you recommend having 2 pair of GBR in? I have one pair in a 40g right now but because of the space they have gotten abnormally large so idk if it would be a good idea to put another pair in it

Dude, I really could do with you help on my electric blue ram, not sure how to send a picture to you 👀 but 3 fish shops later and I'm in still in not better position :(

Aren't the rams we get at fish stores all from breeders, breeding in hard water and 7ph and up? I had all these same concerns when I wanted my orange head Elec Blu, I was told he was multi generation and bread on hard water. I know this video is 5 years old im wondering if we have successfully bread that out of whats available in America

I dont find rams too often where i live

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My bolivian rams have been breeding in my community tank, they already have wigglers... should I transfer them to a different tank/container? if so, how?

My golden rams just spawned. How long does it take for the eggs to hatch?

What is RO water ?

Do you ship overseas

How do rams look like in the wild? I always thought German blues are the "wildest" version. There isn't a lot of info available on internet about wild rams. Also what are the lighter blue morphs called? Ones that look like Electric blue acara?

If you sell fish can you elaborate how to order from you with joining anythjng

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At what point do you consider them to be “done” hatching and move them out of methylene blue water?

Are you able to ship to the United States

I want to start breeding the German Blue Rams. How much for a pair ?

Where are u located

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Is there albino rams?

Can i have some a couple of german blue ram.......i'd like to learn to breed it...

the light always turn on for 24 hours?

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You say RO water in the containers, is this pure RO? im in CQLD and if i use just RO everything will die :(

Im curious to understand better, why you don't keep several dark knights from every spawn, grow them up to maturity, and start line breeding them. I would imagine if you line bred the pairs that produce the highest number of dark knight spawn, eventually you could get higher yields than 10%

Congratulations nick Sir in success.. do the blue black rams create dark knight or you need dark knight pair? Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge...keep up the excellent work...happy new year...✨🎇✨🎇

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I need 4 pair

Are you Greek ? Congrats on George kambosis I hope I spelled his name right lol new boxing champ from Australia 🇦🇺 and also Greek.

jesse wantsa a price on 50 and 100

Whenever purest complain about hybrids, I'm like, you're too old

I can keep this fish But im in Indonesia.. you can send me to Indonesian this fish???

Ты красивый. Брови красивые очень

Sir I am C5 from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳 I tried alot of time Breeding Greman Rams😅😅 But I can't 😢😢😭😭

Let the eggs and fry with their parents. Natrual breeding. It is better for the fry and their future parental care.

First!

ramz is beautiful fish🥲 I hope I can have this beautiful fish . how do i get it? im from indonesia please🙏🏻🙏🏻 I'm from Indonesia

I just can't keep rams alive. Tried all sorts of advice. After ten years of trying I give up. Can keep killing fish. I don't have problem's with any other fish. It always seems to be sunken belly that kills them. The last pair I tried were yours, unfortunately the same problem. Female lasted about a week, the male a few months. My favourite fish of all time but just doesn't work for me.