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
J. marlieri parent guarding mixed fry in a trap!
A little video of a Julidochromis marlieri parent guarding a fry trap (fry retrieved from an external filter 4 weeks ago). The trap contains: 1 x J. marlieri, 1 x L. caeruleus, 1 x cherry shrimp and several snails.
What you don't see in the mobile phone video is a Frontosa and the other Juli parent making a hasty retreat when I turn on the tank lights. The trap is mostly guarded by a male juli, but both parents take turns or if the Frontosa swims up to the trap then the juli pair protect the trap together. They become aggresssive and shoo him away. This protection started last night when they noticed a Frontosa showing an interest in the trap, for the previous 4 weeks no fish ventured near the trap at all. I find this behaviour fascinating as I'm not sure these are the parents to this juli fry. There are 4 breeding pairs in the tank. The tank contains a mix of Malawais and Tanganyikans. I have a feeling the parents of the fry are in a cave on the other side of the tank close to the inlet. However, the pair whose nest is closest to the fry must think he belongs to them because of the proximity of the trap to their cave. I wonder if the trap was moved to the other side of the tank who would guard them then? (The trap is fixed to the side of the tank not floating freely). Anyway, enjoy I thought someone else besides myself might find the behaviour interesting too.
Killenard, Laois
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Regards Glen.........
Frontosa Crazy..............
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