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Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)

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

A Tale of L134's

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01 Oct 2014 13:34 #1 by Patrick888 (Patrick Drummey)
So my breeding pair of L134's have taken somewhat of a hiatus over the last two years. Prior to this they bred every couple months or so and were going well. However, over last two years or so - nothng! This despite religous weekly water changes, trying to get the TDS right, feeding heartily on frozen foods, performing ritual tribal dances in front of the aquarium etc - all to no avail as i took out the torch once a week and had a look into the caves.......

Just recently I have committed to trimming back my fish stock and as such, I maybe could have been accused of taking my eye off the ball for a bit - for example i hadn't carried out water changes for three weeks :ohmy:

Coupled with this I'm trying to scale back on aquaria numbers in the house, and so last weekend I dedided to move the L134's to new quarters (last step before going out the door ;) ). So I set about stripping down this tank (also containing a few Discus), vallis and a few pieces of driftwood on a sand substrate. One cave at a time came out into a prepared bucket until I lifted the last cave out, lowered into the bucket when the male came out of the cave.

You can guess what happened next................. Out popped a clutch of lovely orange eggs :ohmy: About 20 in total............ The one time I never looked :angry: :angry:

I immediately put the eggs back into the cave followed by the male. Too late! He rejected them - twice! So I frantically rushed around getting together one of my egg tumblers and set it up. Eggs in, along with a few RCS and fingers crossed.

Midweek now and not looking good - about half lost through fungus (no methylene blue on hand...). Put a little more vigour on the tumbling this morning. Hope for the best now.... Typical

Moral of the story (for me)...................... Ignore your fish somewhat, cut back on water changes and just feed!!!! Its the only thing I've done differently over the last two years with these guys... :(

I might just take this approach with the Zebra's :unsure:

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01 Oct 2014 14:51 #2 by Miamiheat (Stephane Lemaire)
My girlfriend discovered a baby albino cory in my last community tank yesterday. They lay eggs all the time but never had a chance or time to try to save them. Out of the blue the little guy is almost 2cms long...

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