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
New home for some pdf`s
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Follow me up to Carlow
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Not sure yet,its 36x18x15 so might chance 4 or 5 D. azureus
Phew, someone has some money to spare. (=5 azureus). That would look rather cool though.
Actually, there are sometimes azureus going for low prices in the UK....but they should not be wild caught (illegal trade).
Once someone has azureus male and female in good condition, they are one of the easiest to breed and raise the young....so there is often no real reason why their prices can be a bit high.
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Check out the angling section, it is fantastic
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number 1 browns would be small enough for a good sized azureus....but the jumpy nature of number 1 browns may put some PDFs off.
Have you used both brown hatchlings and black hatchlings?
Fruitflies are a little difficult to get hold of at present.
I'm not too sure what flies are being referred to in another post here, but if they are bigger than fruit-flies then they are too big.
If you can't get any fruitflies,then you could always place a small piece of banana in the viv for a day to see if you tempt any fruitflies into the vivs.
Don't leave the banana there for too long unless you are sure that gases from the banana don't hang around at the bottom of the viv.
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I'm not exactly sure what the size of your azureus are, but they may be too small to give the slower number 1 blacks at this stage. (blacks are bigger and tougher)
Springtails.....if you have plenty in a viv then place a few potato peelings on the substrate, leave over night and then harvest in the morning into a small tub.
Quite time consuming unless you have loads of sprintails in the viv.
Do you have any colleges by you that might have some wingless fruit-flies in the genetics dept?
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If you have a boggy area in the viv, then throw the chilled lies on that and it takes them extra time to get up and flying after they warm up.
You can train PDFs to take food from the same place....so they'll soon get use to where the food goes.
Hope your one starts feeding.
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