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
What to feed my Lionfish
i was once told by platty to rub marmite on the sting .i was\drunk when he told me this so it couldve been something completly different.
john
You see what happens when you talk fish until after 6am. You must have been craving a marmite sandwich. It was BBQ sauce.There is an ingredient in some BBQ sauce but for the life of me i cant remember what it is. The name will probably pop in to my head at 4am and wake me. If it dose i will let you know.
Hot water will do the trick. But dont burn yourself. If i remember correctly about 50c will do it.
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I have the lion fish a week today. On Friday I tried feeding it Moysen (sp?) but he wasn't biting.
On Saturday, I went out and bought 3 mollys (small ones). They lasted the day in the tank (after much harassment from the damsel fish, however the lionfish didn't go near them, or their corpses which where to be found the next morning near the pumps.
Yesterday I got lance fish (frozen) and spent much of the day trying different methods to get him to eat it (wiggled it by hand in front of him, followed him around the tank with it, placed it between rocks in the current so it wiggled itself with out my hand in the way). Nothing.
I'm very worried now as it's been a week, so he must be running on empty.
Apart from the hunger strike he seems to be very happy and healthy. He appears in great health. He hunts around at his own pace and appears to have settled right in.
Please help - I really don't want to loose him.
...unless he's getting sneaky take outs when I'm not there???
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