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
Killifish....Fundulopanchax sjoestedti
Great old fashioned favourite killifish; and good to see some of these in a shop here.
...so being old fashioned, and being one who likes to be taken back to the paste-times...I got some.
Easy to keep and breed (if the male isn't too brutish), and a good killifish that will mix with robust fish that it can't bully, eat (it is a rather large killifish with a big mouth) or be eaten by.
Anyone else who loves the good olde fashioned favourites keep these? (I have my suspicions about whom might keep these
)Beautiful fish...even for non-killi fans who have the right fish to mix.
ian
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14cms. (Except for Dwarf Reds).
Any Location Code on these Ian
What are the prices like.
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HUGE FISH
14cms. (Except for Dwarf Reds).
Any Location Code on these Ian
What are the prices like.
ATB
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Oh yeah....a 6 inch killifish is something to behold.
So, I'll cutting up earthworm.
The ones I got today....on the Longmile actually...where a nice size (about 2 inches maybe)and 6 euro each.
Even at that size, they can do some pretty good gymnastics (hence my tanks have quite low water and tight-fitting lids).
There's no location code with them unfortunately, but at 6 euro and infrequency at which I've seen these....I didn't really care, just a nice fish.
ian
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I may pop out today and get a few extra females as the males can be bruts; that is the only concern with them.
The last time I kept these was back in the late 70s (or the interface with early 80s...my memory defies me at times) when I was a bit more into killifish. [actually come to think of it, it may been about 1982 when I was trying to impress my wife-to-be with these things that when water is added fish appear within minutes....yeah, she probably thought she'd hooked herself a nutter
)If I have time to give them a good space for breeding, then there will be stuff available (what would I do with a load of gulares anyway?). Nice thing about these is that they can have a very good lifespan so breeding is not always as urgent as with other killies (eg Nothos) and can be used in a nicely set-up community of the right fish.
Puddlefish, do you have any of the south american 'killies'? I had my phase with them (that is when they arrived alive of course) as I'm interested in the jaw structure (evolution and all that stuff).
ian
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Simpsonichthys are simply stunning.
The last order I made for some Simpsonichthys were for S.flammeus....but instead what arrived was S. magnificus (maybe even more stunning tha flammeus)....but they were dead on-arrival (and their colours dead were, sadly, even more spectacular than the live colours).
I'm not totally convincved by the classification of the Cynolebias/Simposnichthys etc clad....that's why I have interest in the jaws of these fish. (ah, it's a bit like cichlids....if you're a tooth-man then you get african cichlids)
There's been some recent reviews of the killi classifications....some I welcome, some I don't. But, we'll just have to wait another 50 years before someone puts them all back to how they were in 1977.
.Wilson Costa is the man doing lots of work on trying to unravel these beauties (I have a few PDF files of research/classification papers here)
Rivulus have some very nice species, not a genus that I can recall seeing for sale in shops though.
I'm not familiar with Aquabid....I don't do any on-line stuff at all (cash-only for me). But may look that up as I don't have the in-person contacts I had when in the UK.
ian
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