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
Food for fish?Whats on your menu ?
My freshwater settup contains barbs and loaches and their daily rations are NLS pellets crushed to bites size bits, daphnia and bloodworms. All the fish in this setup are juvies and are fed three times a day.
Now the fun bit. My marine setup contains carnivores
. I keep a dogface puffer, a niger trigger, a remora and a moray eel. The puffer and trigger get fed three times a day with muscles, cockles and prawns. The remora would take anything and only stops feeding when I refuse to give it anything. I feed it prawns and krill cubes. The cubes are cut in two, as are the prawns as this fish does not chew and swallows its food whole. I supplement these feedings with NLS large pellets for the vitamins they contain. The Moray is fed every other day on prawns and squid rings. It would take food every day but its not healthy to do that with them. Its a bit of an art but I use a claw to target feed them so its a system that works, for me anyway.Jay
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I feed them flake food, little red granular food (Perfect for corys's), Cichlid sticks, Bloodworms + other frozen foods, I feed a range of fruit and veg to my pleco n loaches on weekends and i also feed them homemade food.
I only really feed them 5-6 days a week...
My fish have a better diet than me...
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you must have an own kitchen cupboard to store all those foods
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..guess what?), but my fish are my fish so they need kitchen space.@Sofiztikated......crickets and locusts are fed to Australian saratoga (Scleropages jardinii), and the Mudskippers get a cricket treat. The larger killifish will also take a cricket or two, but that needs care to make sure the fish doesn't miss the cricket else it will pollute the water.
I have loads of reptiles, frogs and tarantulas that also gobble up the crickets.
I also breed cockroaches....but haven't tried them with the larger fish yet (they are packable with loads of nutrition, the chitin content is relatively low...and we should have a few in our diet)
ian
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You are bang on the money, that would be me.
Well good to meet up with you on the forum here.
long time and no see.It's also good to know that my brain cells are still functioning.
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igmillichip wrote:
I also breed cockroaches....but haven't tried them with the larger fish yet (they are packable with loads of nutrition, the chitin content is relatively low...and we should have a few in our diet)
Really? In our diet? Having tried deep-fried cockroaches, I would not recommend them to anyone who does not find themselves in the midst of a nuclear holocaust. It was almost two years ago now and I'm still picking peices of shell out of my teeth!
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Yep. Really. Dubai cockcroaches would be good.
Another one which I had the pleasure of proposing is woodlice.
Going back into the early 80s, I was involved in getting approval and massive EEC funding for large-scale woodlice farming for our planned fish farm and organic agriculture/alternative technology centre.
The idea was to produce top quality food fish, and to also work on 'meat alternatives' for human consumption.
But, at the time, despite the EEC thinking it was worth giving my group 140,000 pounds for that project....people thought organic agriculture was silly and that alternative forms of energy production and energy saving were a waste of time.
(and I still think that my computer controlled windmill and energy recycling designs are good !! but never made any money as it was just so expensive for the R&D).
Nostalgia, Nostalgia....loved tha project as it brought together my two loves of biochemistry and electronics, but left me financially broke.
Would I eat cockcroaches? Ummmmm, it's like this: do as I say, not as I do
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