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
Silver Arowana help and advice
I have bought a silver arowana yesterday(been waiting for ages to get one
) and was just looking for some advice on themHe is currently in a 450 litre tank with other south american cichlid all the same size
the silver arowana is about 3-4 inches in size
whats type of food should i feed them as a baby ?
how long does it take to grow
and basically any other advice or help you would recommend
i have Google a lot and there's a lot of different opinions
Thanks
G.
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feed small amounts and often floating pellets.
Good regular water changes..........these really need good water.
Be very cautious about medicating if the water is crap.
Making sure the lid is tight is vital.
But you need to know what to do if it does jump out......
collect fish off the floor (hopefully still alive)....switch off lights............hold upright in a net near the surface for about 15 minutes.
Then let the fish hold itself....if it wobbles to one side then repeat holding upright in net.....untill it will hold itself on its own.
The fish is likely to move to the bottom layers of the water...........and its eyes may go white.
Do a proper water change.
Keep all lights off.
Don't feed.
Isolate if possible.
Hopefully the fish will recover after a few days.
Catching them......these fish are easily stressed and can die pretty quickly from stress (that can increase as they grow).........so if catching then scopp into a large bag rather than struggle with a net.
In my books, it is the minimising stress when catching or the very likely chance of jumping out that comes top well above size of tank for these.
Big tanks are easy to obtain, developing skills to handle large arowana is not so easy
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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