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~3/06/11 F0 P. managuense
...but like anything else, being in the right place at the right time is key. That is unless you know how to "push the fish button". When guarding her clutch of eggs...
...the female will remain relatively close, either fanning the eggs ensuring a constant flow of water or doing a visual inspection for anything amiss. The male for the most part will stick to the periphery doing the big job of border patrol...meaning keeping an eye on the photographer...me.
I use a variety of lens when shooting this tank. I was using a 70-300mm zoom for these shots...so I was about 8-9 feet (lens) away from the tank. I have a choice...wait for the shot, hoping they will deliver...or making it happen. I chose the latter. All I do is step in and put my hand on the glass. The female who is normally just attentive...
...immediately responds by first responding to me...
...to immediately turning her attention to her mate. It's like she get mad that I somehow got close and he didn't catch it. LOL And she responds like clockwork...
...flaring at Mr. Managuense. One more move to the glass draws the male to the left of the tank across her path..,when I step back for the shot I generally catch a little one-on-one between the pair. It's interesting behavior. I speculate that the females aggression toward the male keeps him attentive and on edge. It would be like going home and every time you walked by the wife on the couch she stood up and smacked you behind the head with a magazine...just to keep your attention.
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8 to 9 feet away it ust be some piece of kit that camera would love to see what other fish you keep Please Log in to join the conversation.