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
an awful lot of poo ???
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What kind of fish do you keep? You want to see the quantity of the stuff I gravel vac up every week after my 3 Oscars; it's unreal but I keep their water & conditions pristine and they are thriving and amazingly healthy. Well worth it!
Aye their messy feckars, foot long Plec doesnt help either
Once a week here too with manual netting during the week if I see
any floating around. Handy thing I found was with having a large
rock up close to one side of the tank is that it all collects in
the one place behind it leaving the rest of the floor clean
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Only keeping Oscars a short while but i'm hooked on them.
How are yours getting on since spawning? Have you Oscar fry swimming around yet?
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Yeah, I find the majority of it gathers in 2 or 3 spots in my tank too making it easy to siphon it out but they sure do a lot of the stuff. It amazes me how much I siphon out each week when I gravel-vac. Totally worth it though as it keeps the conditions pristine and the fish get the benefit of that and they show it.
Only keeping Oscars a short while but i'm hooked on them.
How are yours getting on since spawning? Have you Oscar fry swimming around yet?
Unfortunately I hadnt anywhere to rehome the Plec in
temporarily and he ended up getting all the eggs in the
middle of the night. In the middle of settingup a 2nd tank
for him for the next spawn
The breeding pair have already shown signs of hanging around
the spawning rock the last 2 days, none of the rubbing/ lip=locking
going on yet tho.
I'll give it another few weeks then throw on some of this for them ...
maybe put a dimmer switch on the lights for them too
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I'm looking forward to , hopefully, getting a breding pair out of my three. All three are red tiger oscars and from an unreal batch they got in AV some months ago; absolutely fantastic specimens.
I seen your vid alright, lovely fish, great markings
Whats the story with breeding brothers & sisters with each
other tho, weakens genetics anybody?
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