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~11/28/10 Variety
I believe this is one of the females:
And here are some photos of the males. I haven't seen much aggression to this point. Certainly I am going to have to make some decisions soon about keeping three of four and getting rid of the rest. Tank space is at a premium.
Beautiful fish.
And one shot of a male with the other "dithers" in the tank....A. hogaboomorum.
My friend Frank Nell gifted me these Cryptoheros Sp. "Honduran Red Point". They are the "platinum" variant. You can see the beautiful blue fins of the HRP. I have four. They have been in a secluded 100 gallon tank that I have been using for a holding tank for various pleco (Xtreme Aquatic photo shoot) for the last couple months. Up until now I haven't had a light on the tank.
I noticed that two of the fish seemed to be controlling two thirds of the tank...and it didn't take rocket science to figure out why. Like most of this species they would breed on a wet mop. I wasn't shocked to see that the fish had already bred. Here's the female with a small scattering of fry.
And like other CA cichlids, the female will often keep the male busy and involved in the rearing of the fry. She's a little over an inch in length and obviously is in control. LOL
And two shots of the P. fredrichsthali "Honduras". It's not difficult to get this pose consistently. The fish is waiting for a pellet of food to hit the top of the water.
Sometimes timing is everything...Even though I missed the entire fish, I thought that the back end of the fish was really quite beautiful....so here it is....stylized using Color EFX Pro and Photoshop.
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