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Re: Reverse Osmosis Units
> OK Apisto 'goofs'...........I include myself.......serious question.
> The sex ratio of your spawns. According to Dave Soares and Uwe
> Romer(Germany) and some others.........them the sex ratio of apisto's
> is affected by pH. My A. cacatoidies (watch my spelling all the
> time....unintentional I assure you) were spawning very successfully at
> a pH of oh about 7.7-7.8 and the the sex ratio was 98% males.......fine
> for the local fish shops but????????? I had 8-10 spawns.....some of
> them huge, maybe 125-150, but the ratio stayed the same. Have some of
> you folks followed your spawns long enough to determine the sex ratio
> and the pH of your water.......RO or tap water!..........Thanks in
Ok, I don't know if it is still archived, but it was conlusively shown that
it is temperature. I mailed the reference on this list; if you can find
the archive, you'll see it.
Cheers,
Matthew