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
Mudskippers......Periophthalmodon septemradiatus..
The existing older specimens have preferred to hang out under the 'ornament', and the new have taken up odd positions in the tank.
The main salts would be from the corals, with some added sodium bicarb and some marine salt.
I haven't had this species ever jump out, but have had the monsters in the video below jump out.
Strangely enough, the species in the top video (Periophtalmodon septemradiatus) have a very odd reaction of escaping by running onto the land from the water; other mudskippers move from land to water if chased.
So....the guys below, Periophthalmus barbarus, are the ones that have attacked and drawn blood from me....and have leaped out their tank (and caused problems catching):
This species grows to neatly 25-30 cm, whereas the record length recorded for the fish in the top video is only 10cm.
There's a little bit of action near the end of the video.
ian
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I had heard about them and seen pictures but never seen them in action - Thank you.
Valerie
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I'd say it good fun to follow them.
Good man Ian
If I happened to have a video running when one escapes to run around the front room, then I'd have a pretty comical video.
They are so cheeky.....there is an intellect there and they know how to play hide and seek with their funny little cheeky faces watching every movement you make.
Very very fast on land.
If, however, someone did video us chasing a fish around the front room for half an hour, then they should remove all sound, turn it into black and white, and market it as one of those B&W comedy silent movies.
and....no...I'm not going to do a YouTube wizzard thing and put one of my fish on the carpet for the crack.
ian
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