A pair of German Blue Ram.

The aquarium of mine was setup in the natural plant’s environment for the German blue ram. This German rams are normally kept where there are plenty of covering area consisting of aquatic plants or submerged driftwood with Java ferns, and including such elements in the aquarium set up. Densely grown groups of plants separated by open swimming space is best. The fish will also need some caves to seek shelter in. If we want the fish to breed, provide them with flat stones in the aquarium.

German blue rams should not be kept in aquariums smaller than 20 gallons tank. The larger the aquarium, the easier it will be to keep the water quality high enough. The German blue ram is sensitive to organic waste products such as nitrate and is therefore not a suitable choice unless you know how to keep the levels of organic waste down.

The female fish is smaller than the male and have more pink pigmentation on her ventral region. The dorsal fin of a male looks more longer and the body doesn’t have blue coloration on the black spot. The back of the dorsal and anal fins have a more pointy edge in the male ram, and the tail fin is also more sharply edged. It is also common for females to have a plumper body shape and have blue coloration on the black spot. The male ram can be recognized on his V-shaped tail fin and the elongated second ray that is present in the dorsal fin.

The German blue ram will do much better if you combine it will peaceful species that will leave some food for the rams. Keeping rams on their own is not recommended; they feel safer when combined with braver fish.

Many aquarists believe that the German blue ram is really difficult to rear. They need excellent water quality, and should have nitrates around 5ppm...no higher than 10ppm. Pay close attention to their diet, and make sure they get all the vitamins they need. I hope to succeed in keeping them than to breed them. Cheers.

Macro shot GBRam.

My community fish tank.

This fish tank was setup in march 2008, and it's size was specially design to keep the fish species which I fall in loved. Actually have no intention to keep these fishes, but was fascinate by the Black ghost knifefish. The black ghost was small in size from the LFS which I bought from and was about 5cm long, did not expected fast growth. Hence got to get a bigger tank, deep in height for the reason they might jump out of the tank. These fabulous creature looks alike those dolphin, so cute looking and a little aggressive towards small fishes, now grown to 16cm long.

Tank size: 60cm x 30cm x 54cm H..Black ghost knifefish.








Below are fishes found in the tank, 2 nos. Electric yellow cichlid scientific name Labidochromis caeruleus was very active and entertainment fish. It needs some rocks cave to allow establishment of territories, less aggressive than other fishes. 2 nos. dwarf Golden algae eater, 2 nos. Koi angel and 3 nos. Black ghost knifefish can get along in this community tank.

Electric yellow cichlid. Golden algae eater ..... Black ghost.






This present community tank which I house with lesser fishes, because the black ghost are very aggressive at time. Some of my smaller fishes was attacked by them and I decided not to have too much difference species in this tank. For the Electric yellow cichlid, it can grow until 5" long and at present it's only 3" long. Where else the GAE will help to clean up the algae and left over food in the tank. Hope you like it as viewing this post and loved the hobby.