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
I D PLEASE..
Cheers Stuart.
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that aint a puffer.Not a cichlid person myself but it's obviously a cichlid
Tallaght, Dublin 24
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Hi guys I got 3 of these in my lfs and was told they would be perfect for my set up but others have told me different , could i get an id of EXACTLY what this is.hope the picture is ok
Cheers Stuart.
To be fair,on my initial glance i thought Figure 8 Puffer....think it was the yellow circle on the head!!
Ger
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A Wonkey....duh ha
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(only joking as you were told a load of crap by the shop).Basically, the complete answer is 'welcome to the world of Tanganyikan Cichlids'.
I won't recommend a book as the ones which I have are some the original key books and no longer available....but there are plenty of good ones out there now (make sure that the authors are not the shop mind!).
Temperament in Tropheus can be somewhat variable. One of the best, I find, predictable are T dubosi....when the male hits about 4 or 5 years old he can be fiend. Others are not always quite so bad.
Part of the key with this is to play psychological games with their decor. Select fish wanting differing parts of the tank to own.
That means do a bit of homework on what fish you like and then see if they will fit nicely into a mixed Tang tank.
One of the nice things about tang cichlids is that you have a large variety of shape, form and colour to add to a tank. There is also an option to add some rift valley synodontis catfish as well.
As for growing, my advice is don't force feed these into growth. Let them graze with good quality appropriate food for Tropheus (there's plenty on the market).
So...yeah, go the whole hog and make the tank a complete Tanganyikan tank. You'll never look back as you start doing water changes on your ever increasing number of tanks.
ian
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. I think i will go for the dwarfs, even if one or two of them turn out to be duffs the experience i'll gain from keeping them will let me have a better chance of success when i move on to bigger and better things. I HOPE..........Cheers again for the feed back guys always appreciated.
Stuart.
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Yep, experience is also knowing how to get around the OH....although some might say that several divorce cases amounts to being called an experienced fishkeeper
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Baby fish....that often works. Especially baby cichlids being looked after by the parents. It's like a bloke taking some cutie dogs for a walk in local park....grabs the attention of women.
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Yep, experience is also knowing how to get around the OH...
Baby fish....that often works. Especially baby cichlids being looked after by the parents. It's like a bloke taking some cutie dogs for a walk in local park....grabs the attention of women.
Well said Ian
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