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
Harlequin Rasboras - strange symptoms. Help?!
I bought 2 new Harlequins to add to the 3 I already have on Monday to create a small school of them. They appeared a little aggitated before I added them (I popped bag in the tank and just added the fish and not the water from the bag).
On Tuesday I noticed one had what appeared to have part of it's lower mouth missing and it was swimming towards the top of the tank in the one position. I went out for a few hours and came home and it was dead at the bottom of the tank. I immediately removed it.
This evening I get home and check the other one I purchased (I can distinguish it as it was a little smaller than my current Harlequins). It too had some of it's lower mouth missing. I removed it immediately from the tank. (I caught it with little effort as it was obviously suffering).
Is this a disease know with this species? Could this have been caused by stress of transporting, etc? Just thought this was a very strange finding.
All other fish appear fine. Tank is a 60litre and I make my water changes every week. Treating water before adding, etc.
Needless to say I pretty annoyed having lost the 2 of them.
The other fish I have in my tank are not aggressive (Cardinal's, Glowlights, Cory Cats and Ancistrus Plecs)
Any suggestions/advice welcomed.
Thank you all
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