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Post by Crazygar on Mar 3, 2017 20:22:46 GMT -5
If remember correctly, without testing, the tap water here (Windsor, unsure of surrounding area) hovers around neutral or a pH of 7. The Mopani, due to it's age, would leech very little tannins but maybe a few bits to drop the pH .1 of a degree. I am going to guess the pH of the tank is around 6.8 to 6.9 which is pretty good for these fish.
But this is an estimated guess, an actual measurement (use pH strips, find the chemical tests just not accurate) would good though for those wishing to replicate this.
Gary
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Post by jeffyguy on Mar 3, 2017 22:13:07 GMT -5
Windsor's ph sits around 7.6. Or at least that's what all my freshwater tank say. In all the years I've been doing this I've never seen my ph drop before and after waterchanges
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Post by lesfromlakeshore on Mar 3, 2017 22:22:25 GMT -5
Windsor's ph sits around 7.6. Or at least that's what all my freshwater tank say. In all the years I've been doing this I've never seen my ph drop before and after waterchanges Jason might be lowering his PH a bit with Almond leaves , peat moss , driftwood etc . Not really sure though . |
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Post by phish on Mar 3, 2017 23:14:28 GMT -5
It's been a while since I tested PH but I remember Windsor's water being 7.0 as well.
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Post by Xander on Mar 4, 2017 6:45:54 GMT -5
My tap water comes out around 7.4, but all my tanks sit at 7.8 once the city's buffers gas off. I've seen it get to 8.0 before. too.
As far as driftwood goes, I've used several mopani pieces, indian almond leaves, and other leaf litter items, yet have never discovered a difference in pH due to them.
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Post by bettaja on Mar 4, 2017 11:38:38 GMT -5
I don't use anything else in the tank, nothing to lower the pH at all. I would guess they are happy enough to spawn...temp is a bit high at 79 C. The trick may be I use old water and no light except what comes into the room.
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Post by gabor129 on Mar 5, 2017 9:25:47 GMT -5
It is most likely the all natural conditions of the tank that these fish like. You are doing a great job.
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Post by bettaja on Mar 5, 2017 14:30:08 GMT -5
It is most likely the all natural conditions of the tank that these fish like. You are doing a great job. Thanks Gabe! |
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Post by Crazygar on Mar 6, 2017 19:14:42 GMT -5
Funny how we all have different pH readings. Mind you, this comes from memory and testing my tanks before I relocated in 2008. So I can imagine loads of changed in the 9 years that I've been gone from the area.
Gary
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Post by bettaja on Mar 7, 2017 17:26:08 GMT -5
Figured I would post one more update.  These are freshly hatched fry about 1 cm, the longer fry about 1.5 cm is from the first batch (a little over a week old). They all live in the main tank with the parents. |
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Post by lesfromlakeshore on Mar 7, 2017 20:24:59 GMT -5
Figured I would post one more update. These are freshly hatched fry about 1 cm, the longer fry about 1.5 cm is from the first batch (a little over a week old). They all live in the main tank with the parents. Looks like you have a bunch of these . Are the parents still together ? Also are the parents full grown ? |
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Post by bettaja on Mar 7, 2017 23:06:01 GMT -5
All 4 of the adults are still in the tank. fifty+ fry from the first spawning set (A batch of eggs from 2 females). The adults are about a year and a half old (bought them at about 2 inches SL) they are now 3 - 4 inches SL, adult but still much smaller than the 6 inch size they are capable of getting to.
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Post by gabor129 on Mar 11, 2017 18:49:18 GMT -5
Great pictures Jason! What size is the tank they are in, and how are they find enough food?
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Post by bettaja on Mar 11, 2017 19:30:32 GMT -5
Tank is 36"X12"X12" so it's a 20 long I think. I feed the fry 2X a day with micro worms/ grindal worms, frozen baby brine shrimp, frozen marine copepods (it's called cyclopods from Hikari) and some romaine lettuce (In float the leaves as the fry like the top of the tank anyway). Filtration is a large air driven sponge filter.
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Post by bettaja on Apr 29, 2017 15:57:21 GMT -5
So it's been about 2 months since the parents spawned and I was inundated with fry about 300+ hatched out. Out of the the 300 about 60-70 have made it to 2 months. I was expecting this as I read the fry were hard to raise, I really think the trick is to know when to stop feeding the fry high protein foods and switch to a more vegetable/fiber rich diet. The fry have grown to the point they are now able to eat only veggie rounds and hopefully will grow quickly.   |
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