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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
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- irish-zx10r (James feenan)
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I can do it but the ones i want to breed keep getting chased away by other cichlids
Should i move just the breeding pairs to another tank?
What size tank would be ok for just breeding? Could i keep more tank one breeding pair in a tank
here is some of my breeding pairs that i want to concentrate on.
1 male 3 female Flavus
1 Male 3 female white tail acei
1 male 1 female cynotilapia afra jalo reef
1 male 2 female Pseudotropheus socolofi albino Snowflake
1 male 1 female Pseudotropheus sp. Elongatus Chewere
Victs
1 male 1 female Zebra Obliquidens
1 male 3 female red tail sheller
I know the male to female ratio needs to be sorted.
these are all in a 6ft tank now i have 3 other tanks running and in cycle
100L 110L 350L
the 350L needs a external filter so if anyone has one please let me know.
also what do you think of stripping cichlids of there fry.
I did it for the first time with my metriaclima greshakei
and got over 20+ fry i didn't like to do this but last time she must hae eaten them
The female Zebra Obliquidens eats her fry all the time so i will strip her next time when she is holding.
any help or advice will be great
thanks
James
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- Jim (Jim Lawlor)
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rather than stripping the obliquedens, try getting a couple more females and/ or remove the male once she's holding. He's probably hassling her while holding & that's why the fry arent survivng. moving him or giving him other females might move his attention elsewhere - I never found the males of these species to be much use anyway, once mating was over.
I may have the makings of a tetratec ex1200 still here, if you're still looking
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- irish-zx10r (James feenan)
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are looking good my friend gave me there female Obliquiden so hopefully the male will be busy.
I seen a young girl tapping the tank and spooking another holding cichlid she must got a fright and she afterr eating her fry

Not so easy when your in a house with lots of wild kids

Can you pm me your address John from here sorted me with a external filter but is only on loan and i need something bigger
the Sa cichlids are messy cichlids and i taught pleco were bad
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- irish-zx10r (James feenan)
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Spent extra money buying a good quality yellow lab to breed with my female he has done the job and she now has a nice mouth full also have yellow belly Albert holding white tail acei and my jalo reef
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- CrustyCrab (Peter Biddulph)
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and when the spawing is over, the male will chase the female out of his territory.
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- irish-zx10r (James feenan)
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James, It is worth remembering that mbuna only form pairs while spawning,
and when the spawing is over, the male will chase the female out of his territory.
When I have the correct balance of male and female will that male stay faithful or will he breed with any female
That shows interest
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my yellow belly alberts breeding hopefully i get a good batch of fry

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- irish-zx10r (James feenan)
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now holding
first time for all four
Pseudotropheus sp. Elongatus Chewere
zebra obliquiden
white tail acei
one of my young yellow lab
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- irish-zx10r (James feenan)
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i will soon will have to pay him a visit to his shop in salthill for more cichlids
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no problem i have a full tank of them once they start to spit the fry she does not hold for longReally like those yellow belly alberts. Wouldn't mind a tank full of them some day
but i am going another setup for victs only and hopefully my luck will change.
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New wanted list for breeding
2 Firefish female peacock
2 Nimbochromis fuscotaeniatus female
2 Protomelas taeniolatus female "Red Empress."
2 yellow tail acei
2 red zebra female cichlids
2 yellow belly albert female victoria cichlids
1 male Zebra Obliquidens cichlid
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