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
Come into my parlour......
We all know that feeding Fruitfly can be a haphazard operation which more often than not ends up with a few escapees, (maybe a whole lot more
) this in-turn brings us into conflict with our unsympathetic spouses/parents. (pass the cotton wool)Now speaking from experience these little buggers are hard to kill they are hard to drown and the only sure fire way is to subdue them in the cool temps of the fridge and then feed. But again once they come round they will head for the hills, especially if you have floating plant material.
I would like to hear from anyone who has kept Drosphillia in the past as to their feeding methods and especially would like to hear from any of you budding inventor/DIY buffs as to the construction of any contraptions to keep the fly in the tank and available as food for the fish.
All suggestions are welcome along with any illustrations.
Thinking caps on guys
I do have a few ideas of my own but I look forward to your offerings
Regards
C
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I get that.
For PDFs, if I can't get vestigial (or whatever rose anyone wants to call them) flies, then I chill the flies and tip them onto the damp surface......it takes them a bit of time ot recover and fly-off: the frogs nab them before the flies realise where they are.
For killies, I have found that the fish will get the flies if trapped between water and lid.
But, may a piece of banana near the water level will temp the flies to that area....any killifish worth its ability to escape a bad-fitting tank will easily grab the flies as they land on the banana.
In the good old days of genetics labs, we would use an anaesthetic on the flies to select the best for breeding.
OR, how about making some mutants that have no legs, small wings and can swim.
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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