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  1. Lennie
    If they are really wild, then I believe it is not that likely for them to color up *as much as* other selectively bred variants. I'm not a breeder but this is my opinion: Rams normally want a bit specific water parameters as you know. Soft water, kinda low ph, but hot temp. If you get wild caught fish then you should meet their parameters and conditions in the wild. The negative side of getting selectively bred fish is, their genes get weaken due to lots of inbreeding. So tank bred ones have better coloration and can adapt wider range of parameters, but can be a bit weaker genetically I believe. This is a video I found where it shows GBR in the nature. So yea, if they are "wild" for real, then they don't seem to color up too much. But on the second part of the video, there are some with pretty okay coloration considering blackwater is not working on their side for popping up their colors.
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    They look like wild ramirezi to me (Mikrogeophagus ramirezi wild)
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    As it is high, I would aim to use the levels of the aquarium and try ti stay away from very active fish. Dwarf gouramis temperament vs other fish is a pure luck, so I think honey gouramis would make a great centerpiece fish. Or you can look for red rubin gouramis too. They are pretty as well! For schooling fish I would say ember tetras. Pretty color, okay size, not super active. Or maybe green neon tetras. OR, red neon blue eye rainbows! for bottom dwellers, I would get a small group of pygmy or hastatus corys. OR, kuhli loaches. Assuming you will have a sand type of bottom substrate to not dmg barbels, or further, let them perform their sifting behavior. If you will have a lid, one mystery snail may add lots of character to the tank too! As algae eaters, maybe something like 3 borneo suckers and 2 nerite snails
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    Thanks, I will check it out. @Chick-In-Of-TheSea also mentioned that she has seen quite a bit of sparkling gourami videos of them. Def in my list to watch next! I may even setup an extra tank to breed them maybe one day. But they seem to be not really liked by most people I guess? Not sure. They do give more of a wild type beautiful look which is not everyones thingy I believe
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    Those anubias def need something to block the light over them. They really don’t need lots of light to do well. Mine has been flowering in shade under very low light, once I removed the floaters all it got was algae. Also anubias are really slow growers so they can’t consume the nutritions in the water column fast. I would personally dose less ferts than recommended if I had a tank full of slow growers. I would highly recommend floating plants and preferably some fast growing plants to suck excess nutrients in the water column and don’t leave it for algae growth. Elodea and hornwort are great in that regard.
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    I may try to spawn them too! But who knows what genders I have 🤣
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    You can't find them too? They are way too underrated! Btw, they are a bit territorial, I'm not sure if the agression would calm down in a 6g cube as a group Look at them! 😄
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    Hey guys, Yesterday, for my 50cube I got 3 sparkling gouramis. I have to confess, it was an impulsive buy, which I usually never go for. I have never seen them before so they are pretty rare to come by here. When I saw them, I was like, YOU ARE COMING HOME WITH ME! 😄 As I'm a big gourami fan in general. I watched videos and read care guides about them. Seems like everything I have is what they really enjoy, so that's great. Even tho they are some amazing nano fish and easy to care for, it seems like they are a bit rare and personal experiences are hard to come by. So I wanted to learn about some personal experiences from you. Those who have experience with sparkling gouramis, Could you please share your experience for the following questions: What's your group size? Currently I have 3 in a community tank setup. Should I increase the group size or is it good as it is? Have you ever faced any sort of agression between each other? If you ever had a chance to breed them? Sexing them seems to be a lil tricky, how important is it to have 1m:2f type of ratio. Do they get agressive later on if the ratio is not met? Do you have any tips to sex them? Rachel O Leary says it is really hard to sex them unless they get into their breeding dress as males get significantly brighter and longer finnage. On another video, it was mentioned that the organs look like the females and males and it is an easier way to determine. The female on left and male on right. But it seems quite hard irl :') Hope there are some peeps that enjoy this cute lil nano fish & would like to share some experience!
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    I have heard about problem once, and a friend's angels killed her rams for some reason. But other than that, I have never heard of problems either really. My angels are juveniles rn, and rams only seem to care about each other. Good side is, rams enjoy lower side and angels like higher side of the tank. I believe cichlids care about the other cichlids in their size more, or if they share the same level and territory in the tank. I'm happy to hear you had no issues at all! I wanted to try them with backup plans, which I hope I will never need to use 🙂
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    Tbh, plant's reaction to potassium deficiency is generally one of the easy ones to diagnose. I would not worry too much if I were you. Just keep your fast growers or well known potassium lovers like java fern to see if they show any sign of deficiency
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    Dang, that tank has angels too🤣
  13. Lennie
    I would rather get your king shrimp than any amanos! 😄
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    Blanching helps them sink in the tank! Also in my experience, snails like the slight mushy texture more and makes it easier to eat for them compared to something fresh. I personally always blanch my stuff and introduce them to tank afters
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    I didn't realize until keeping shrimp that I love them as a part of an ecosystem tank and find them a beautiful and exciting member of the whole community tank, but shrimp only tanks seem a bit dull to me. It feels no different than keeping snail only tank, or any sort of species only tank even. I guess I just like combinations that reflect the nature more. Sad enough, it is hard to sustain a good shrimp colony in a community tank.
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    Snoopy likes the spaghetti you say 😄
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    Kuhli loaches are known to be pretty hardy in general. With your good care and support, I think they may just do well. It is not easy to find fish you like. I would personally give them a chance. Someone else entering the store to get them is less likely to provide a better care especially if there is a potential health issue going on. People return fish to life from very bad conditions and end up in great results. I highly support you to give them a try Here are two motivational videos for you which I enjoyed watching very much before 🙂
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    Hillstream loaches or borneo suckers as bottom dweller/clean up crew/ algae eaters As school: white cloud mountain minnows, danios, or pseudomugil. Rainbow shiners are cool but maybe too big for that tank size? I can't think of a centerpiece for now, may update if anything comes to my mind
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    😄 I'm telling you, I should be living near you and let you feed my fish once a week. They would enjoy the feast you may offer! 😄 Now I feel hesitant to feed bloodworms aaa. I guess I better feed small portions until I use the whole pack and not get bloodworms again >_>
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    Could be cool, but sadly everything else I found were expired lol. No clue why they think it is okay to sell expired frozen food. This one says 2024. I mean maybe it does not have a big risk due to being frozen, but on the other hand, frozen food are not meant to be melted anyway so if there is an expiry date on the package, it should mean expiry date as a frozen food 😄 Right? So I didn't want to buy something expired intentionally and just got bloodworms.
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    Hey fellow ram keepers! WhileI was watching GBR care videos back in the days, I've noticed that KeepingFishSimple mentions whenever he feeds bloodworms to his GBrams, he has been facing issues and even facing deaths. So he recommends not to feed bloodworms to rams. I am not sure if this situation is specific to rams, or more specifically for GBR. Or is it even a thing? In most GBR fish care articles, bloodworms are suggested as a food option. What is your experience in this regard? As I keep them in a community tank, my fish enjoy their weekly bloodworms very much. Should I avoid feeding that tank bloodworms? Or is it unlikely to face any issues? I am not eager to run my own worm culture, and good quality bloodworms is the only good frozen food I can have my hands on lately. I also use freeze tried tubifex and sera o nips in terms of treat. Sadly can't get frozen brine shrimp/bbs lately in stock. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Here is the tagging part for fellow ram keepers I can remember of: @Guppysnail @Chick-In-Of-TheSea @dasaltemelosguy @knee @Fish Folk @xXInkedPhoenixX @DiscusLover @NOLANANO . Please feel free to tag any other ram/specifically GBR keepers to hear about more experience regarding bloodworm feeding. I believe it may be helpful in general. I'm curious to hear about your experience! Here is the related part of the video:
  22. Lennie
    The thing is all hairy type of algae eaters also eat normal food mainly. Like mollys, SAE, flagfish, rosy barbs… They all rather eat commercial food or frozen/live food instead of algae really. For surface algae and diatoms, can be good for nerites or otos, but other than otos and nerites’ diet, seems like meh. Maybe good for baby fish and shrimp to nib on sometimes
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    thanks Matty, this tank was my back to hobby tank after I quit for years, and it got hair algae situation when I had to leave town due to military service. Normally, thankfully my other tanks I built afterwards don’t have the issue. This one didn’t have the issue before that either. It just never balanced out whatever I tried without chemicals. Even mts population got balanced in that tank but not hair algae. Nitrates are between 10-20 in that tank. Has duckweed, water lettuce and amazon frogbit as floaters. I always use floaters in my tanks! 🙂 But yea this tank is getting down soon hopefully as the fish have their new tank ready. I’m just medicating them as a preventative method before moving them all to new tank I’m not sure about what benefit it has that other plants cannot provide at this point really
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    You know me, no seltzer water here 😞
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    That is true. To me at worst plants are renewable but I get really annoyed if my fish and inverts are harmed
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