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
Light Unit Question
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if tube is ok then it can be starter or choke or wiring.
another possibility is the units components are wired in series, like christmas tree lights.
anyway good luck sorting it out and good luck with your new tang set up. should be brill.
30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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one of the lads, bob, had a large tang. com. with adult ventralis, nasuta and leptosoma etc. and a thriving colony of multis and a breeding pair of comps. i also had a com. with similar large fish and breeding comps, occelatus and julies. but if i wanted to save fry i had to remove them before they dispersed.
with the big tangs i could have mentioned ctenochromis horae, gnatochromis pfefferi, any of the lepidolamps or even the smaller brichardi types buescheri and helianthus which are all great fish but ime very tough and aggressive esp. with conspecifics. but the three i mentioned are quite commonnly kept and whichever of the three or anything that looked like a threat you introduced would have been attacked by the territory holder. the tret has a massive bite designed for crushing snails (like puffers or butifekeri) and would win most battles. even with a finger.
the tetracanthus grow to 9 inches and are among the best parents in the fish world (like mini boulenochromis) and can really defend territory against all comers, so a 100 gal tank would be a minimum reccomended.
i do not wish to discourage people from keeping any of these species because they are all worth the effort but they really do need special care and conditions as they approach and reach adulthood. as juves they are easily managed.
30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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