Picked up some new wildcaught tigers from peru and was wondering how many people have had success acclimating there wildcaughts with water that was a ph of 7.5 or greater. My water is 8.5-9.0 out of the tap and then goes through a r.o. unit to make it 7-7.5. I've tried chemically lowering it to 6.5 but it will just bounce back to 7.5 in about 2 days. I've tried some driftwood with no success (must have been preboiled?) and I tried peat but doesn't work well and is very messy. So I gave up on lowering the ph. Just hope other people have had success at high ph.
New tigers acclimating in high ph
- Thread starter skynoch
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well, i donno about tigers but rays in general dont have a problem with high ph its more of a ph fluctuation that causes them stress
hi, have had tigers on import that have gone into bore hole water at 7.9 and been fine the only thing is the colour will not show for a little bit longer than normal. i know of people breeding rays in london tap water and it is very hard!! so as long as they are feeding then one hill over come. should be fine very resiliant fish once the aggression there for feeding
good to hear you guys are doing it. I have put in other motoro wild caught into my tap water with the high ph and a tds reading of 1860 ppm and they have adjusted within a couple days. It's only been 4 days since my tigers have come in and there color has returned but there not eating. Not worried yet. But I remember reading in the aqualog and ross's book about them not aggresively eating in 7+ ph. Have had other experienced ray keepers in the area have problems with newly aquired tigers getting them to feed, I guess time will tell. Oh ya don't have access to blackworms. Just keep trying bloodworms, redworms nightcarawlers and myisis shrimp.
Nic;1901941; said:
Wow I read they were suppose to be kept in warmer water? I'm keeping them a 83-84 maybe I should drop the temp then? Totally new ray maybe I'm over thinking things
keep it up for now.... i always want to discuss this with Dr ross but im unable to attend the symposium
It would be great to attend and up my knowledge but a long way to go. I'll keep things the way they are for now and panic later thanks for the help.Nic;1902008; said: