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
Cichlid Id
Ok, here's the challenge. To id this cichlid from the crap pic above.
I have no idea what it is apart from that I'm pretty sure it’s from Lake Tanyanika.
2 - 3 inches long, they have bars of a lovely shimmery sheen to the flanks & a dark reflective spot on the gill plate. The head profile is a bit like a multi.
Very unusual looking, bought two of them yesterday more with the intention of finding out more about them than keeping them long term.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Patrick
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it's probably the lovely/ugly trichlachromis otostigma, they are slow moving mid sized mouthbrooders and fairly peaceful. they have very long ventral fins and are hard to tell sexes apart. they have a huge mouth and this is somewhat prone to infection. they can look as if they are constantly brooding. they live over mud and eat small inverts etc. avoid feeding them at surface.if it is them they are very interesting fish, i think they are bi parental. when i kept them they did not breed but always looked as if they were brooding. they are hardy but mine eventually died from an undiagnosed mouth infection.
best of luck with them.
30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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