Re: maintaining Ph for fry?

["Matt & Linda Crocker" <crockerm@peak.org>]

    I plan on using mostly RO water for as long as I have these fish, I
just mix a little tap for Ph stability.  So it's going to be soft all
the time.  Just the Ph will climb to 7 or so.

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Diane Wise" <apistowise@bewellnet.com>
To: <apisto@v2.listbox.com>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: maintaining Ph for fry?


> Matt,
>
> By now these juveniles should be able to handle
> "more normal" water
> conditions. Don't do massive water changes with
> radically different water
> values, however, but you can slowly change it to
> slightly acid, moderately
> hard, water over a period of a week or so. I don't
> know what this will do
> to the development of the fins, however. In A.
> trifasciata, for example,
> specimens raised in soft water develop higher
> dorsal fin spines than do
> specimens in harder water. Who knows, maybe the
> same happens with Inca.
>
> Mike Wise
>
> Matt & Linda Crocker wrote:
>
> > My Inca's spawned in Ph 5.9, so far I have been maintaining the Ph
5.9
> > for the fry.  The first batch that was swimmers on January 28 is
still
> > at 5.9.  Do I need to keep them at 5.9?  Or can I just start weaning
> > them off this water and have no sex ratio problems.  What are the
most
> > important parameters to maintain to get an even split on the sex
ratio?
> > I am mixing RO, a little tap water and peat treated water to get the
> > 5.9.
> >
> > Matt
> >
>
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