blackbimmer1972 wants to know:
I’ve got a male gold ram, and want to get him a mate that he’ll pair off with. My understand is the best way to do that is to put several females and other males together for a while, and see who pairs off first. I’ve got a 20 gallon-high tank I’d be using for this project. How long does pairing usually take, assuming these fish are but a few weeks old? Anything I need to think about before diving in, no pun intended?
I’ve got a male gold ram, and want to get him a mate that he’ll pair off with. My understand is the best way to do that is to put several females and other males together for a while, and see who pairs off first. I’ve got a 20 gallon-high tank I’d be using for this project. How long does pairing usually take, assuming these fish are but a few weeks old? Anything I need to think about before diving in, no pun intended?
Thanks.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:43 am
As with ANY species it’s going to vary. Some might tell you say, it took just a couple weeks. Some might tell you it took a few months, some might tell you never.
The point is this. First thing is you need to be sure you get a female and how old is your male? Some species I’ve been able to identify early on if they are male or female but are still juvenile and waited about 10 months after that for them to be sexually mature, while some other species were much faster and only a couple months after I had a known male and female did they mate.
It’s not a guarentee either that just because you put a female in there, they are going to mate. If I were you I’d put about 2 or 3 sexually mature females in.
July 11th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Once sexually mature they pair pretty quickly especially in the presence of a couple of males. You would best best putting a male and 3 females in the tank.
Softer water will help the process as well as concave areas broken pots for example make good breading areas.
Put give them 4-5 to choose from and let nature take its course.