My German Blue Rams...

Lonewolfblue

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Here is what you do. Do you want to know how your water conditions are? Without testing? Get Rummies. The redder the head, the better the water. You can use them to guage water quality, as they are pretty delicate, and need good conditions. That is one of my guages for water quality. The other is my red tail shark losing color as well. Another sign that something is amis. Also, if you want something that schools very, very well, then I have 2 suggestions. Rummies in smaller tanks no smaller than 30G (To give swimming space), and Roseline sharks in larger tanks (minimum 75G, again to give swimming space). Hope this helps. I love all my fish, especially my GBR's and Roselines. Wish I liked my Bolivians as much as the GBR's, but they are getting bigger than I expected, and have an attitude problem, lol.
 

Lonewolfblue

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As for that purple pic, no, he's not purple. LOL. He's still kind of silvery, not much color yet. Still a baby.

As for growth, they are growing pretty slow. But as for my babies in my 10G breeder tank, quite fast actually. They are a month and a half old, and already pushing almost a half inch. Can't believe only a few weeks ago they were around a millimeter or two.
 

wayne

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Some of the wildcaughts are pretty big. As captive breeding of these limits the gene pool so they jsut seem to get smaller and smaller. I haven't seen any bigger than inch and three quarters for a long time (and they lloked like they'd been helped with hormones)