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

AFRICAN MUDSKIPPERS

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mickeywallace (Michael Wallace Cath Woods)
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21 Mar 2008 17:45 #1 by mickeywallace (Michael Wallace Cath Woods)

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Hi folks,
Myself and me mate Peter are setting here having a crack. Just glancing through some stuff. And Peter noticed the above and was wondering about them. Now on my normal pc i have stuff saved on them for referance but on this slow old thing nothing. And since peter lives so far out in the sticks they use smoke signals still.

so i was wondering if someone could help out with some info on these cute little things. I know that you have to create a rised area where they will hang out during the day its advisable to use burried stones to keep the sand in place and some thing about magroves.

things we would like to know is what type of pump and how to possion it is marine or brackish

is there a type of sand you should use or a mix of sand and mud.

food requirements or anything else important we should? or anything we forgot and need to know

tank size? possiable tank mates etc

Mickey

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21 Mar 2008 18:11 #2 by Daragh_Owens (Daragh Owens)

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I don't know much about them, except that they look cool. I do know that they are very agressive even with each other, so tank mates would not be an option. I can not remember if they are totally freshwater or brackish.

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21 Mar 2008 18:59 #3 by mickeywallace (Michael Wallace Cath Woods)

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Cheers Daragh
i was thing that mud skippers are mareine i seem to remember years ago seeing some guy going on a mud bank on like a cannoe and using a rod to catch them except he swung the hook and grabed them. but then it was some years back and i might have drank to much holy water
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21 Mar 2008 19:24 #4 by derek (Derek Doyle)

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hi micky
mudskippers are brackish and do need a raised area which makes it difficult to filter their tank. they are highly intolerant of each other and everything else and are supreme jumpers and escape artists. i would have no doubt that they are among the hardest of all fish to keep. make sure you read up well on them before purchase.

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21 Mar 2008 19:36 #5 by mickeywallace (Michael Wallace Cath Woods)

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cheers Derek,
while i have been considering them for some ime it still is only at the study stage but with my pc away sick :angry:

i am trying to pull this info for Peter but having read your post i think his idea will go back on the back burner.

Thanks everyone for their reply and keep them coming

Mickey Wallace & Cath Woods

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21 Mar 2008 22:01 #6 by suckers (matt lait)

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pm sent mw
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22 Mar 2008 01:37 #7 by goldy (goldy .)

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hey suckers does that mean that you know something about them or that you have kept them. I saw them a few times in newlands garden centre and I have to say they caught my imagination. Would nt even think of keeping them until I brushed up on my knowledge. but they look brilliant. I do ave to say that I know they are an agressive bugger and that you could not have any other tank mates and that they need a raised area. I think they are known as 4 eyes as they have the ability to look above water and below water at the same time due to lenses in teh eye.

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22 Mar 2008 10:34 #8 by mickeywallace (Michael Wallace Cath Woods)

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Hi Nessa,
you are thinking of Anableps anableps and i do make the same mistake. they both have unusual eyes as you say the four eyed fish has the ability to see both above and below the water line.

the mudskipper when it blinks pass water through its gills thus how it can be out of water so long I think but i am sure someone will correct.

I just find it amazing to think that some of the first land creatures maybe even what became humans. were some thing similar to this. It is a question to if we could come back in a few million years what would they have developed evolved into!

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22 Mar 2008 12:03 #9 by goldy (goldy .)

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you are right mickey I was thinking of anableps (4 eyes) but I thought they were mud skippers...oh well I will have to go googling now.

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22 Mar 2008 16:26 #10 by Didihno (Didihno)

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I saw a mudskipper set up once, i think it was in wackers.
Basically the heater was right on the bottom, as was the filter (internal lying on its side).
The water level just came over the top of the filter.
The sand was piled in a slope up against one side, just coming out of the water (the flow from the filter kept this little hill intact).
There were the mudskippers, happy as Larry.
Some sitting on the hill, one or two on the heater, and another on top of the filter.
It looked like a pretty easy setup, but IMO a waste of a tank.

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22 Mar 2008 18:10 #11 by 2poc (2poc)

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Didihno wrote:

I saw a mudskipper set up once, i think it was in wackers.
Basically the heater was right on the bottom, as was the filter (internal lying on its side).
The water level just came over the top of the filter.
The sand was piled in a slope up against one side, just coming out of the water (the flow from the filter kept this little hill intact).
There were the mudskippers, happy as Larry.
Some sitting on the hill, one or two on the heater, and another on top of the filter.
It looked like a pretty easy setup, but IMO a waste of a tank.

Yeah saw these myself - in whackers in town before the new place opened.

Interesting looking fish - would look the business in a Paludarium.

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