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
Best food for Fish
But, for general tank fish, Tetra Prima is probably the best all round dried food (although I have moved away from it in recent years).
I now use the JBL range of foods mainly.....with JBL Discus (same as Prima only not quite as good), JBL Spirulina Flakes, and JBL NovaTab as the main dried foods across the tanks.
For Siamese Fighters and other small surface feeders, I use JBL Betta food (I found that to be excellent for difficult-to-feed fish such as siamese fighters and gourami......'difficult-to-feed' means that they are prone to gut problems from crap food).
Frozen food is a great addition to the diet.
Large predatory fish are usually quite easy to feed, and most will happily take prepared food (frozen or dried food).
Some Micro-predators can be tricky, some may only take live food or frozen food.
But if pushed to give one all-round 'Best Food' (ignoring the extemely large fish) then Live Daphnia raised in an algae and cyanobacterial soup do the best all round job safely.
That is just a few of the 'best foods'.
A variety is, though, the spice of life.
As for the dead sepae tetra.....one or 2 days without food is not likely to kill a healthy fish (unless it is a fry). In fact, a missed day now and then will be beneficial to most fish.
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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