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Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
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23 Jul 2013 12:59 #1
by Q_Comets (Declan Chambers)
Hi all
So the Internet is as usual too much information.
I recently got apisto macmasteri and they are kinda shy so I am wondering how do you guys/gals ensure your shy fish get fed?
My rummy noses aren't too bad but the black neons are kinda crazy at feeding time.
Thx
Dec
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23 Jul 2013 18:34 #2
by Shane (Shane Faulkner)
Just an idea you could use a sinking food so he could pick off the bottom or a slow sinking food while the other fish are busy surface feeding and he might have a chance
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23 Jul 2013 19:10 #3
by LemonJelly (Johnny Cowley)
you could pre-soak a little food for them and then use a syringe or turkey baster to squirt it closer to them than it might ordinarily get
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23 Jul 2013 21:38 #4
by Q_Comets (Declan Chambers)
Thx for the replies
The person I got them from tells me to give them some more time to settle in and they will start coming out a meal times.
Had some hikari sinking food so dropped a couple in figured the more shy fish could share them. One of the neons looked kinda funny swimming around with one in its mouth.
I'll try the baster if they don't get braver soon
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24 Jul 2013 09:26 #5
by paulv (paul vickers)
ive never kept dwarf cichlids, but used crushed garlic in a bag of daphnia to encourage young rainbow fish to feed during a settling in period, then slowely switched to flake and frozen blood worms. its surprising how much left over food gets into plants, rocks and caves that your shy fish can find once lights are out.
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03 Aug 2013 18:35 #6
by Q_Comets (Declan Chambers)
Well I guess it takes longer for fish to settle in than I thought. All 4 macmasteri are out and about, the last one started to venture out yesterday so all good
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