Hi all, I'll try to keep this short.
Before the lockdown in February I bought 5 GBR from my LFS. I was going to try to pair two of them and take 3 back but with lockdown this never happened. They were kept in a heavily planted EA600 which holds about 100 litres, the filter is an Oase 300. I manged to give one GBR to a friend but 4 rams in 100 litre wasn't ideal so I ended up getting a Roma 200 with an Oase 350 filter.
I transferred some filter media over to the Roma , used new sand as substrate ,planted a few new amazon swords into the sand and transferred some plants in 2 inch clay pots from the 600.
A week on and a female ram has uprooted one of the plants from the clay pot and layed eggs. The male and female rams are taking turns to attack the other two rams. The pot with the eggs is at one side of the tank and they are still travelling the full length of the tank to attack the other two rams hiding in the swords.
How long should I expect this behaviour to continue ?
Do you think I should put the two unpaired rams back into the 600 which has been stripped back to a bare bottom with a couple of pots of tissue culture plants and a few cherry shrimp. I would imagine most of the filter bacteria would have died back? I could plant it up again with new plants but it will still be an immature set up for rams.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Before the lockdown in February I bought 5 GBR from my LFS. I was going to try to pair two of them and take 3 back but with lockdown this never happened. They were kept in a heavily planted EA600 which holds about 100 litres, the filter is an Oase 300. I manged to give one GBR to a friend but 4 rams in 100 litre wasn't ideal so I ended up getting a Roma 200 with an Oase 350 filter.
I transferred some filter media over to the Roma , used new sand as substrate ,planted a few new amazon swords into the sand and transferred some plants in 2 inch clay pots from the 600.
A week on and a female ram has uprooted one of the plants from the clay pot and layed eggs. The male and female rams are taking turns to attack the other two rams. The pot with the eggs is at one side of the tank and they are still travelling the full length of the tank to attack the other two rams hiding in the swords.
How long should I expect this behaviour to continue ?
Do you think I should put the two unpaired rams back into the 600 which has been stripped back to a bare bottom with a couple of pots of tissue culture plants and a few cherry shrimp. I would imagine most of the filter bacteria would have died back? I could plant it up again with new plants but it will still be an immature set up for rams.
Any advice would be much appreciated.