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Hi Brian!
How did you acidify the water down to
5.0-5.5??
Ernst
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Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 8:16
PM
Subject: Re: Ram fragility
Good info
Brian,
I haven't kept them before. I guess I've just gotten lucky.
I usually leave my breeding fish in bare bottom tanks. I also do partial
water changes on everything except fry tanks once a week. My fry tanks get
water partial water changes twice a week.
With the Rams I keep the
temp up around 85 and TDS low. Nice soft RO/DI water.
I had a spawn mid
Dec and then another 3 weeks later. I also talked with a breeder friend of
mine and he also had routine spawns every couple weeks. They are also the
only dwarf except the Neo/lamprologus type that will actually attack my hand
when changing a sponge filter or something like that. Seem pretty tuff to
me.
JerryB
I think some of my problem was using portland oregon tap water. i
never had success with that until I artificially acidified it down to 5.0-5.5
and raised the temp to 85. not sure what the hardness was back then.
in ohio i've now got a tds/pH meter. hardness of the tap is 200
(tds units, pretty soft) and pH is neutral. I had success with rams in
this water and also artificially acidified, temp high again.
I've never been able to raise a spawn though. They always eat the
fry within a few days of free swimming.
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Brian
Ahmer
ahmer.1@osu.edu
http://www.angelfire.com/or/biggestbri
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