"Twitchy" rams

[Angela]

Hello Everyone,

Im new here, but I have a strange question. I have one blue ram and three bolivian rams in a 55 gall. with other community fish and my blue ram has in the last week or so started this twitch. This is not a "fanning" but almost like an electrical current going through him. Has anyone seen this bizzare behavior before? Im sure its nothing to do with water parameters as they are fine, and so are all the other fish. Do blue rams and bolivians inter-breed? Is this some sort of mating 'dance'??
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Angela

 

[mostanks]

hi angela..this is indeed an odd one and we will need some more info on the water parameters,this may help figure out what the problem is...or where it came from.





sam

 

[EMdina]

I have three blue Rams (2 M and 1 F) and have seen one of the males do this...but it was toward the other male, not the female...he only did it the first couple of days we had him- whenever the other one was steppin to him...after a couple of days of this he hasn't done it since and they don't bother each other...so, perhaps it's a dominance thing...

 

[Angela]

Thank you for the info....

My water parameters are well...kinda unknown. I don't have my own test kit and havn't been to the lfs to have it tested lately. I know that my hardness is off the scale (GH and KH) like I couldn't even give you a number its that high. My ammonia is 0 because I have a test for that.
My tank is over stocked and Im frequently guilty of over feeding, BUT I do do alot of water changes, like 25% every few days.
I did recently have a HUGE ammonia spike and before that a bout of ich. My lfs thinks that the ich meds killed my bacteria and caused the ammonia spike, but would my ram perhaps be suffering from "ammonia withdrawal"? Or maybe it caused some sort of brain damage? Heheh...seriously other than that I don't know what else to tell you. I know that rams are soft water fish, but my bolivian's are fine and so are my other myriad of fish. Im puzzled, but who knows it could just be a warning to other fish, or a behavioral thing....but any more insight would be greatly appreciated. This is a great board!

Angela