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~5/30/11 A. hogaboomorum
Here's the male and female doing their respective jobs. The female on the right is guarding the breeding area...that maroon half pot...where she has a bunch of new wigglers...and the male keeping an eye on the other large male on the left hand side of the tank. One of the things that I find interesting in particular about this species...or at least this pair...is that the pair will swim a distance away from the pot full of fry regularly. Not that they ignore them...just that they don't spend every waking minute guarding them as most other species (at least the ones breeding in my fishroom) do.
Breeding coloration is apparent in the photo above with the female getting that beautiful orange/red background color. Here she is doing me a "favor" and swimming right into the lighting sweet spot.
The breeding male keeping a keen eye out for any movement of his competition.
And the best shot of the whole session...the male flaring at me setting up the lights. I saw him winding up getting upset...stepped back and shot two pictures of this action. This was the best of two.
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