Subj : Re: Tank Maintenance At Last
To   : Carol Shenkenberger
From : Jeff Snyder
Date : Sun Nov 21 2010 03:33 am

On 11/21/10, Jeff Snyder quoted Carol Shenkenberger: Tank Maintenance
At Last.

CS> My angel fish are showing off to each other.  I don't know how to sex them,
CS> but it's looking like they are either gay, or a male and a female ;-)
CS>
CS> The 70gT tank is doing well as always and stable.  Minimal water changes
CS> needed and water crystal clear all the time.  I keep a low fish balance
CS> incase of power outages stopping the pumps but what I have is flashy enough
CS> for  us.             xxcarol --- SBBSecho 2.11-Win32  * Origin: SHENKS


Hello Carol. It's nice to see you posting here again.

Angel fish, eh?

Well, obviously, the easiest way to discover their genders is simply to wait
and see if anything serious develops -- i.e., spawning -- from their current
flirtations, or whatever it is that they are doing. You will know soon
enough, as they will begin to clean off a flat surface in your tank --
either a smooth, slightly incline rock, or a broad blade on a plant, or even
a glass pane -- in preparation for the actual spawning. And, of course, the
female will become quite plump before her ovipositor begins to protrude.

But, if you want to get on the more technical side of things, even though it
has been many years since I bred Angelfish, as I recall -- and while it is
difficult for the untrained eye -- the angle on the fish's ventral side,
right above the anal fin, while be different on males and females.

Angels make great parents. Unlike so many other fish, they normally do not
devour their own fry.

You really should have a large -- at least four feet -- tank for the purpose
of breeding a pair of Angels. Also, if you really want to encourage
spawning, you should drop the PH to about 6-7, maybe even lower.

I am saying all of this off the top of my head from breeding Angels years
ago, but I believe that the info is for the most part accurate.

These conditions pretty much apply to South American discus as well.

Power outages -- Oh gosh! My dread, as they are quite frequent here, lasting
anywhere from fifteen minutes to many hours, or even days, weeks and months
when a powerful typhoon strikes us.

As I've been saying in my posts here, my four-foot tank is majorly full of
these mbunas, so I do fear a major disaster if we experience a prolonged
power outage, in spite of having a few battery-operated pumps here.



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