I know angels can breed in water with a pH of up to 7.6, but mine is a little higher than that. Has anyone bred them using just buffers, or do you have to truly soften the water and drop pH using RO, peat, etc.?
Breeding angels with buffers
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reptileguy2727;646880; said:
Actually they breed in water with higher PH than7.6 up to the high 8s and in hard water too.
Check out Angels Plus website on breeding Angel Fish. They are professional and very successful breeders with Angels in high demand all over the world. You won't need any buffers for breeding Angels unless they are wild caught Altums.
I have a dozen breeding pairs doing their spawning in Miami-Dade County tap water known to be Alkaline and hard.
So what do you do to breed them? (water change schedule, diet, breeding stimulation, filtration, diet for fry/young, breeding substrate, etc.) I just need to knwo what works for hard water, high pH water setups.
I breed all of them in 10 gallon tanks for each pair and with only an air driven corner filter and twice a week water changes of about 25% each time. Typical recommendation is for at least 20 g high tanks. I've seen them bred in as little as 5 gallon tanks and the eggs hatched in as little as a half gallon bottle with an airstone successfully.
The other info are available from the Angels Plus web site below.
Complete Guide to Angel Fish breeding by Angels Plus
The other info are available from the Angels Plus web site below.
Complete Guide to Angel Fish breeding by Angels Plus
I read that yesterday, very good, thank you. Today I got a group of 6 small angels. I plan on feeding New Life Spectrum. They are mostly marbled. I plan on adding some golds, kois, and maybe some oddly patterned silvers. They are in a 55.