New Altums

Hi Prof Dirk

I am waiting confirmation of 15x "Orinoco" Altums (5-6cm) which hopefully will arrive next week.

I have an order for Flubenol 15 which is coming from the UK. Should I need Flubenol before my shipment arrives could you perhaps help me out with a dosage for a 680 litre tank ?

Regards, Gavin

 

Hi Gavin,

Looks like you have nerves of steel if you have ordered altums....... I hope that they will survive, they travel very badly and one tends to have losses within the first two weeks after arrival. They also do not normally succumb to parasitic worms in that period, but rather to bacterial infections. Have you consulted the angel fish forum about treatments they recommend for the initial period after landing them?

Many thanks and kind regards,

Dirk

 

Thanx Dirk,

I have about 18 typed pages of "research" from TASG. The most informative was Granville's thread on acclimatizing and dosage regime. Granville is the guy who arranged the Flubenol 15 for me

And yes I am in a bit of a panic over two things - can I keep them alive. If I can keep them them alive and well, I will probably get rid of 5 in a month or two.

Kind regards,

Gavin

 

Well keep us posted on developments, news about Altum angels is always good!

Kind regards,

Dirk

 

Will keep you up to date with pleasure

 

If i may ask? whats TASG?

 

somewhere where only guys in the know hang out... newbies gets chewed appart.... avoid unless you KNOW your stuff

 

Why so mean henk?

 

becuase its true.... its a forum where the guys that spawn P. Leopoldi and that go catch altums hang out... its 100% true... if you dont know your stuff they will eat you alive

 

Henks not kidding wito-zn.....they can be really mean sometimes

 

Oh ok I guess I won’t be going there. They can keep their information and I will get from someone who wants to teach me

 

Most times they won't respond to 'newbie' questions. Better to ask away here, unless you really know your stuff, and the TASA members can help (we're not selfish with our info )

 

Its nice to know you aren't pompous fish fanatics(i am not saying you aren't fanatical).

 

Who US? NEVER! :bigsmile::blink1:

 

Hey Wito - the angel fish forum is a group that studies mainly wild fish from the Orinoco and Amazon river drainage areas. They go into the taxonomy and all the scientific detail on the wild fish. If you lurk around their forum for about a year and make sure you read each and every post - of which there are thousands, you can pick up a lot of knowledge on Angels. The reason they are a little aggressive towards newbies is that 90% of all the questions you could ask has already been answered somewhere on the forum before (many times) So they can be a little testy about a question that has an easily found answer.
They support Project PIABA - which is a really worthwhile project to inform the world about the wild fish species that are being destroyed and how the aquarium community can help that effort.

 

Oh ok Thanks Zafgak. That is all i needed to know. :tomato:

 

Zafgak, Congrats on your pride to be. I read somewhere they can get 40cm+ from tip of dorsal to tip of anal fin(50cm in wild). I will drive through to CT just to come see that some time.
Don't want to jack your tread, but I take it you guys have P scalare "wild form" or close relatives as well. I have finally got a pair petshop hybrids, a golden vailtail perlscale male and a leopard female ready to spawn. I would really be interested in wild type descendants.

 

Hey Rodger - I have 3 wild P. Leopoldi's p- which are left from a group that Henk raised. Henk actually got these Leo's to spawn. I dont think I will have any luck as they are about 5 ior 6 years old. I also have 12 P.Scalare which are F8 I think. Those I can get you if you are interested..

 

Well I have suddenly and very quickly run out of tank space. My angels have paired up and are busy cleaning breeding space, so they need to go in their own tank, I am visiting a Discus breeder in George Friday morning with the aim of getting some discus once the angels are out in their own tank. My Betta's are wanting to spawn and I have been promised some killi's by a former forum member. Will most probably put off raising more angels for breeding till the summer then I can do that outside.

Again enjoy your babies, best of luck

 

Wito-zn,

Don't get put off my these guys, the TASG, is an angel fish forum which is pretty specialized. They know their stuff and you can get excellent info there by just doing some browsing. But you have to know your stuff if you want to contribute because some of the folks there are a little sharp.

Kind regards,

Dirk