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
id please
its also very aggressive,wont let anything within about a foot of it
cheers
Paul
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I am sure of the ID on this fish, which we thought at one stage may have been a male, it laid eggs yesterday, so that confirmed it is a female!! The black spot was not there before yesterday and seems to be a bit faded here because the lights were just put on to take the photo. Apisto females dramatically colour up when spawning or fry minding but with this variety of agassizi the colour change was not that dramatic apart from the appearance of the black spot.
Here is the spouse, this variety is supposed to be \"Super Red\", I say supposed, as there are so many different names on Czeh bred fish with minimal differences it is hard to keep track. The male has taken to hiding at the back of the tank since the eggs were laid.
For comparison of females here is a Macmasteri female - not in breeding colour form.
Is that the \"pair\" you have shown or the same fish photographed twice? It looks like two females to me, but as I said I am no expert on ID'ing apistos.
Daragh
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Cheers Darragh,i was hoping you'd reply,you're normally fairly good with id's,....
Well I am glad the photo's helped, but it is really Johnh you have to thank, he is the one that sorts out my apistos when I mix them up 
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