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
caudopunctatus pair with new fry
they get fed twice a day with spirulina flake and new life spectrum pellets as the staple diet, and fed every 3rd day with either frozen mysis, bs, plankton (small krill), cyclops or dried cyclop-eze.
the female is the smaller of the pair....the fry are around the mouth of the shell
the female's stress bars flick on and off like a switch if anyone (including me) approaches:
i think theres about 20 fry
heres a close up of the fry
and an even closer one. notice how they already have the blue eyes
lampeye
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I wonder if I can use that as an excuse to get that channell too.
Dave
always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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i decided they wouldnt have much chance so i borrowed a container mick made up as a (very) short term solution. its a modified lunch box that floats. i picked up the shell with all the fry in it an slowly placed in the the box. the parents werent too happy but they didnt get very upset. just one or two bites at the hand. they didnt seem too distressed after, no sign of their stress bars.
heres the lunch box with the two ends cut off and a fine net siliconed on.
more closeups of the fry checking out their new surroundings
no long after posting this i added some frozen cyclops to the lunch box and all the fry \"came out of their shell\" lol for a feed.
lampeye
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not sure if its a trigger but i recently got the playboy channell!
the female is the smaller of the pair....the fry are around the mouth of the shell
the female's stress bars flick on and off like a switch if anyone (including me) approaches:
Wow!
I never seen them in Spain before they are almost tropical marine like, is the purple shine on the body, the same in real life as is the photo, it true what you say the play boy channel make the africans breed.
Its also true if you want to breed gubbys, butterfly fish and especailly sea horces, just but on the playgirl channel....yes you have guess the queer fish or curators are not as macho as discus and african keepers.
That would be a ecumenical matter!!!
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so its like they are always displaying. they have a lovely temperament too. i got six of them off master doyle a few months back. i expected more agression towards the other 4 when they laid eggs but they do just enough to keep them out of their site. there is also an orange top variety. lampeye
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