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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

Copper band not eating

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23 Apr 2013 17:17 #1 by Jk83lfc (John Kelleher)
:( I bought a copper band butterfly last weekend and he's not eating and now is starting to swim funny, can anyone give me advice on what to do? I'v tried frozen food and flakes

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23 Apr 2013 18:40 #2 by igmillichip (ian millichip)
It could be due to not eating that it is ill/stressed, or it could be not eating cause it is ill.

Personally, I wouldn't be expecting a copper band to feed on flake food unless itr has a proven history of eagerly taking it.

They are well known to be fussy eaters. Try to tempt with a variety of live food (not just brine-shrimp but stuf like live mysis or copepods).

But, as always, checking the water condition is correct goes without saying.

I'm not sure how long you have had your tank set-up, but this would be one of the fish that I would (when I did keep them) add to a well-established tank.

ian

Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.

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09 May 2013 10:09 #3 by iknowkungfu (chris)
Lovely fish should have been intro into a tank at least over 2 years old, another wild caught fish ive been told they are very hard to keep . I have had experience with fussy eaters and what ive done is to get easier to feed fish becuase after a few years keeping them you want a tank that only takes a couple of minutes per day anything longer ;) u'll only sell it in years to come because alot of hassel. Who advise you on a copperband? in a new tank?

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09 May 2013 20:31 #4 by andrewo (andrew)
How is fish doing now?

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