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
Peruvian angel?
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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Often, there is a citation that the peruvian scalares have a 'notch in the head' (like an altum).....but the notch in the head is actually a definition for all scalare according the description of scalare.
There has been some real messing with the naming of angelfish over the years with mis-synonyms, and one synonym being incorrectly applied here and there.
The general look of a peruvian is that it may tend to have a very much darkened and bluer top half of the body (but that is in older fish).
As for this guy.....ask him "do-a you-a speak-a Peruvian hey"...and if it nods then it's Peruvian.
Ian
ps (that last sentence is not true as I think peruvian uses different spelling
)pps....as I was about to post this, I saw Sheag35 posted above. What is interesting in that link is that it implies that leopaldi was once dumerilli but that is not true as leopaldi was never dumerilli.
What was the case is that dumerilli was a synonym of scalare.
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My intention for buying these was to breed them
And this evening they started to show signs
Which I'm quiet excited about
They were sold as wild caught Peruvians and I had my doubts
Since they took so long to start showing signs
Anyway here's a little video,
If a picture says a thousand words,what does a video say?
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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Delighted myself,if any survive there all been called Paddy
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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