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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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21 May 2010 10:18 #1 by bart (Bart Korfanty)
Hi all
I'm trying to breed angels but all eggs are turning white despite keeping them separate in very clean conditions
the biggest success was to get 2 or 3 wigglers
was wandering what are yous using to prevent fungus from attacking those eggs
thanks

Bart

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21 May 2010 12:35 #2 by JohnH (John)
Replied by JohnH (John) on topic Re:anti fungus
Bart,
I am a little confused (nothing new there) - are your Angels' eggs going white within 24 hours or so? If so they probably aren't fertile in the first place.
I note that you have had some very limited success with hatching, which rules out your pair being two over-amorous females.
Fungus will not live on healthy eggs, even though it often spreads over them. If this happens don't worry unduly because the viable eggs will still hatch and if you're leaving them with the parents they will remove the wrigglers onto a different site or even a depression in the substrate.
The major cause of infertility in Angel Fish (and many other fish, including - and more especially Discus) is that the water perameters are wrong for the fish.
I was once told that if pH or hardness is too high it makes the eggs unreceptive to being fertilised and this proved very true for me with Discus, they would lay eggs almost weekly but nothing ever developed but this was in tap water! As soon as I lowered the pH and gH the spawns were progressing and hatching immediately after that change, as if by magic! Unfortunately the male decided that once they were wriggling they were 'fair game' and ate the lot every time, sadly a trait he never got over...but that's a different story.
In years past commercial breeders who would always remove the Angel eggs to hatch and raise artificially used Methylene Blue as a fungus deterrent, but it never worked especially well for me.
I have found meticulous attention to keeping the water clean and doing a small water change daily to be a far better regime to follow.
I hope you overcome the problem, your male might just be a bit on the infertile side if your water's OK, if all else fails try to obtain another male.

John

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N. Tipp

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21 May 2010 12:38 #3 by stretnik (stretnik)
Replied by stretnik (stretnik) on topic Re:anti fungus
The first thing you should ask yourself is, are they being killed by Fungus? second, are they fertile in the first place, the fact SOME are getting to wriggler stage indicates a partial fertilization.

Thee fact they are white rather than fluffy looks like partial fertilization.


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21 May 2010 14:04 #4 by Ma (mm mm)
Replied by Ma (mm mm) on topic Re:anti fungus
Tried Methylene Blue but this to be honest is better for treating directly to fungus on the skin and other blemishes and damage, than water treatment for fungus in a tank, comes back immediately as soon as mblue leaves water, there are better products for that kind of treatment out there. Low light will also impede fungus, kept cory eggs in the dark, no fungus on white eggs even.

Mark

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03 Jun 2010 09:45 #5 by bart (Bart Korfanty)
Replied by bart (Bart Korfanty) on topic Re:anti fungus
Thanks all
sorry for late response went for holidays
the eggs are going white in 48 hours it looks like most of them are not fertilised
most of them are getting fluffy fungus by that time
tried methylene blue but didn't do anything
anyways think I'm going to skip angels breeding for now, have some other ideas to try
thanks again lads

bart

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03 Jun 2010 10:00 #6 by sheag35 (Seamus Gillespie)
bart i had this problem with one of my breeding pairs till i realised the flow from the filter was too strong, now when they get ready to lay eggs, i simply transfer the eheim filter to a spare tank and place in a mature corner filter ran off an air pump and sucess in the number of fry hatching has risen.... now if only i can stop the parents eating the fry after dy 5, they get better each hatch so fingers crossed

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