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
L144 & ancistrius Dolich breeding?
- Fishowner (Gavin fishowner)
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I'll try having another look later on tonight when the lights are off as they may be more inclined to come out of hiding.
Im also over ran by snails. I need to set up some type of a trap for them, I dont have room for clown loach to help out so will put some lettuce into the tank and try and trap them.
Gavin
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- Daragh_Owens (Daragh Owens)
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At the risk a getting hit on the back of the head with a hammer, the fry will be hybrids, shock horror.
Ancistrus fry are huge compared ot most fish fry, if they have just hatched they will have a big egg sack that lasts about 10 days and by the time that is absorded they are at least half an inch, so I think it would be hard to confuse them for Khuli loaches. Are you sure they are ancistrus fry? Here are a few of mine taken some time ago.
Daragh
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I hope they survive, not sure how many there are, I agree they are large for fry and quick too! I'll get the torch out later and see if I can spot them in the dark!
Gavin
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- derek (Derek Doyle)
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anyway, just a thought.
30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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- Daragh_Owens (Daragh Owens)
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There are now orange bristlenose available, also sold under the L144 name.
Daragh
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I didnt try to grow them on,typically they bred alot of times since,all make it out to about 3 weeks,hide during the day under stones,bogwood and the like,when night comes they are all over the tank esp on the glass. Ive fed them as bottom feeders at night but I suspect they die eventually due to lack of food, as I have alot of other bottom feeders,I am considering removing some the next time they breed and will attempt to catch a few and perhaps put them into another tank and see how they get on.
Gavin
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Young ancistrus are fairly hardly but the young of some of the ancistrus varieties are very fussy about water quality and food, so they might do better in a small well filtered tank of their own. Some are also very sensitive to pH over 7.0, but it depends on variety, however as there are so many similar looking ancistrus and crosses it is virtually impossible to accurately identify them, so these are just things that you can try to improve survival rate.
Daragh
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This is not a bad site.........www.bristlenoseworld.com/forum.htm.
Nice guys on there and easy to talk to.
Well i will have to wait months to find out what mine are and even then i will never be sure.
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Denis
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