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
Very good read!!
by Shari Horowitz on September 22, 2011 at 9:06 am
Dr. Joan Holt has spent the past decade researching methods to rear marine ornamentals in captivity. Photograph by Scott Holt.
Aquarists have known for a long time that captive breeding is the future of the marine ornamental hobby, but the reason that it is not as popular as it could be is the difficulty often associated with raising the fry. As articles by dedicated marine fish breeders, such as Matt Wittenrich www.tfhdigital.com/tfh/201108?pg=26&sear...term=Wittenrich#pg91, have shown, it takes time to find exactly what the fry will eat and how to best deliver the food. And that is without discussing those fish that have a planktonic larval stage.
Marine Biologists at the University of Texas Austin Marine Science Institute are working to change all that by developing methods to efficiently breed marine fish and invertebrates in captivity. One researcher has spent the past decade looking for the proper foods and tank designs that enable larval animals to survive. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/11...test+Science+News%29.
While certainly not the answer to all of the reef’s problems, captive breeding of marine ornamentals will reduce stress on wild reef populations. Even better, animals that are captive bred tend to have an easier time adapting to a home aquarium because they are used to tank life.
What do you call a three legged Donkey?
A Wonkey....duh ha
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