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

Today In The Fishroom~6/15/11 F0 P. managuense

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15 Jun 2011 16:55 #1 by Aquamojo (Mo Devlin)

Today In The Fishroom~6/15/11 F0 P. managuense was created by Aquamojo (Mo Devlin)

A few months ago I moved my wild pair of breeding pair of managuense to a larger tank...180 gallons. They are the only two fish in the tank. They bred frequently...like clock work, actually...in the previous tank. After I moved them it took a while for the pair to settle on a new breeding area.

These were taken a few days after the fry hatched. Couple of interesting things of note. First is that the area that they are breeding is a much larger flat rock than previously. In this case, the size of the spawn was dramatically larger than previously...on a smaller rock.

You can see the unfertilized eggs fungus over in the photos. You can also see the pile of new fry in the background. The female spends all of her time checking and rechecking the pile. One other thing that I noticed is that they have placed more gravel in amongst the pile of fry. I would speculate that this provides some kind of wall or barrier to keep the "pile" in tact.

Closer photo of the "pile". Looks like they are stacked pretty deep.

During this period the female will flare and often take a whack at the male who seems to guard the perimeter of the breeding area. Here she is showing her displeasure at the interruption. I actually can get a shot like this many times over. All I do is annoy the male in front of the glass close to the breeding area. He responds by doing a little glass banging. The female joins in. When I step away the male backs off, but the female still appears agitated and will flare a the male.