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  • Yay!! My new Altums!

    Its been about 2 weeks since they arrived, time for pics....

    Here they are being floated. I'm all paranoid from last years terrible disease filled altum stock, so with Dan V's advice, I'm nuking the tank with Meth Blue and Parasite Cure.



    These are the largest angels i have ever seen!
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    One week later........
    They are mostly between 10" to 12" from ventral to dorsal



    This one is almost a foot tall.


    How bout this 11-incher
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    • #3
      pH controlled using a peat bomb setup. Yes.. you CAN lower the pH of Houston tapwater using peat alone!



      My water conditioning corner. That black cylinder pond filter is my peat bomb.
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      • #4
        Parting Shot.....


        Details:
        75 Gal
        pH 6.6 (eventually lowered to 5.5)
        temp 84 - 86 deg
        Bare Bottom
        Peat Bomb Filtered
        10% daily WC's
        Anubias Nana, Narrow leaf Java fern
        Driftwood from Fish Ranch 2
        Sticks from Houston Aquarium Warehouse
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        • #5
          They are huge. I presume the water color is from the peat?
          Resident fish bum
          330G FOWLR
          34G Reef
          330G Discus biotopish (no longer running)
          28G JBJ Reef (no longer running)
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          • #6
            Awesome, I just love Altums and they are well worth the challenge. I also did a potassium permangante treatment prior to moving mine to a larger tank a few months ago, with zero losses due to the transfer.
            Reasoning with some people is like trying to nail jello to a wall...

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            • #7
              Thanks for comments.
              Yes the color is brown from the peat. I was initially worried that it was going to be too brown, but it's actually not too bad.

              Yeah... altums are pretty nice. I hope that people will be able to breed them soon and then they'll be more widely available.
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              • #8
                Baller!

                Super nice finnage for being just shipped to you!
                Now throw a bag of Purigen in there to clear things up!
                700g Mini-Monster tank

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                • #9
                  I was just about to say the same.. drop a bag of purigen in there and it will clear it all up :)

                  What fish do Jesper have
                  180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
                  110
                  Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
                  58 S. Decorus

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                  • #10
                    Sweet fish. I have never seen such nice finnage on those before. They are huge also

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                    • #11
                      Beautiful!! I'm so jealous....

                      Keep the pictures coming!
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                      Sleep: A completely inadequate substitute for caffeine.

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                      • #12
                        Purigen.... Roger!
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                        • #13
                          Very Nice fish! I'm curious to how fast purigen will be in clearing up your water keep us updated.
                          25g - Reef
                          3.5g - Surge Tank
                          10g - Ichthyophthirius multifilis breeding colony

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                          • #14
                            Probably will need a good amount but I doubt it will take long!
                            700g Mini-Monster tank

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                            • #15
                              Hmmm... i see a problem though... i do WC's every week....
                              Once i get the water clear again, the next WC make it all brown again....
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