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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

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13 Feb 2010 01:18 #1 by houseofmil (Martin Bromell)
hi to all,

have this mix of bottom feeders in my tank at the mo with a few rummy nose tetras and 3 rosy barbs
3 Corydoras Melini,2 clown Loaches, a butterfly plec and 2 otcitlis( not right spelling).
give them waffers but want to see if this right food for these fish.

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13 Feb 2010 01:44 - 13 Feb 2010 01:48 #2 by JohnH (John)
Replied by JohnH (John) on topic Re:bottom feeders
Wafers will be 'just the job' for most of the fish you mention - the big exception being the Rummy-Noses (which will still try to have a nibble) - the Rosy Barbs will also get in on the act, but these will tend, as they get larger, to 'hog' the wafers (mine used to) so some more conventional food like flake or granule food fed at the same time will help to distract them and the others might get a bit better of a look-in on the wafers.
The Hikari wafers I use are extremely hard and take hours to break down to a stage where the Barbs and Tetras will be able to bite chunks off them and I always put in a couple (or three) after lights out as the bottom feeding fish you mentioned will all carry on feeding after dark, you might want to consider doing this as well.

John
Sorry, I meant to mention the Clown Loaches, I have found that these do often tend to 'bed down' for the night around lights-off time but these are pretty omnivorous anyway and will eat almost anything which is put before them, they can make quite short work of the wafers too.

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13 Feb 2010 02:19 #3 by houseofmil (Martin Bromell)
thanks john
these are the same wafers i feed them and as for rummy and barbs they get flake food which clown loaches get in on act also.
i try to put waffers in places where the bottom feeders only go.
its only that i heard of people putting peas in for the boottom feeders also?????

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13 Feb 2010 10:56 - 13 Feb 2010 10:57 #4 by JohnH (John)
Replied by JohnH (John) on topic Re:bottom feeders
Cooked peas (I put a few in the microwave on full for 30 seconds from frozen then peel off the outer skin) are a good and nutritious food source for lots of fish, I even find that 'carnivorous' fish like Angels - and many other Cichlids will also eat some too...actually, I have some types of Dwarf Snakeheads which eat almost as many as I put into their tanks!!!
So, yes, all your 'bottom feeders' will eat Peas to some extent. If you want to try them on the Corys my way of giving peas to them is to slightly crumble the Peas between finger and thumb which makes them more manageable to the Corys. I will add that the same information applies to Sweetcorn too - although be prepared to remove either if your fish do not 'take' to them - try a little at first and remove whatever isn't eaten after a couple of hours, remembering to give them less next time.
Your Otocinclus and Pleco will also enjoy a slice of something like Cucumber (you'll need to weight it down as otherwise it will float) but remove any uneaten after a day or so, it will start to decompose, and you don't want that!!!. Another good piece of advice I was given is to use a potato peeler and peel off the green skin, some growers aren't averse to using insecticides and sometimes the residue of this can be harmful to fish gnawing on it, so I always skin whatever I give the fish first, better safe than sorry! I suppose you could buy 'organic' Cucumbers (but I have my doubts about those too and would still peel them to be on the safe side.
For clarification, only peel the section you have cut off to feed to your fish, the remainder can be left with skin on until you're ready to use it (it keeps better like that).

Sorry, I forgot the Clowns again! - they will also eat peas, sweetcorn and Cucumber, clicking away madly as they do so! - Well, mine do.

John

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