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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