#1 [url]

Jun 22 09 2:11 PM

I read this thread Saturday and popped into my LFS Sunday and sure enough there were 4 of these fish at £15 each. I initially bought 3 of these fish then went back the next day to buy the last one after I saw how good they look in a tank with a dark substrate.

They are NOT genetically modified fish (genetic modification is a highly complex and very expensive process that has been applied to few organisms other than a few cash crops by very sophisticated labs. Zebra Danios are used as the fish equivalent of lab rats and so have undergone some GM but not primarily for the fish trade). They are selectively bred - in the UK we've had German Blue Rams for a while with more Blue and "Gold rams" with solid yellow. They are obviously pure M. ramirezi, no hybrids, just selectively bred for blue (as the gold were selectively bred for yellow).

I don't normally like Ram strains - gold, veiltail and worst of all balloon all look repulsive to me, but these are gorgeous and will keep me busy whilst my EBJD refuse to spawn.