Rams Vs Kribensis.

I think the main difference is that rams spawn on rocks while kribs spawn in caves. Both can be aggressive while defending eggs or fry.
Rams can have problems in community tanks, depending how far back in their lineage the last wild ancestors were. Wild rams need very soft water in the high 20's C. If the shop rams have had a recent wild ancestor, they will need it too. Breeders often introduce a wild fish to their programmes to widen the gene pool.

Both rams and kribs are fish that need to chose their own mates. If you buy either, look for two that appear to have paired up in the shop tank.

If you just want blue fish, maybe Apistogramma borelli? The males are blue though apitso females are virtually always yellow.




What about the kribs in your signature, do you have them or is that a wish list?

But Apistos also need soft water.
Bolivian rams Mikrogeophagus altispinosus might be an alternative, or Golden Dwarf Cichlid Nannacara anomala or African Butterfly Cichlid Anomalochromis thomasi .
But all cichlids are more or less aggressive when breeding.

I will definitely read up on them, as I do before all purchases.

Oh they wouldn't be for the 60L tank, they're an idea for my 180L. My signature needs updating lol

It's 100cm in length.
If I'm honest I'll probably give both Rams and Apistos a miss for a couple of reasons.
1). The tank is in my front room, so I wanted a more relaxed and calm tank with slow, floaty stock.
2). Most importantly my water hardness would be to much of an issue, it wouldn't be fair on the fish.

You're likely to get different views on this, due to the individual characters of individual fish, some may have been able to get this to work in the past in a very large tank with very few fish, but for me the standard answer should always be a no... they come from very different parts of the world and they communicate in different ways and would easily misinterpret each others going abouts as aggression. Especially if either species bred in the tank the rams likely wouldn't survive then experience against the more aggressive kribs which lets not forget are twice the size of the rams!