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
Dissapearing act
Finally got my hands on an elephant nose, Ive wanted one for aaaagggess, and was thrilled when Wackers got some really nice ones in.
Did the usual, brought him home, let him acclimatise, and introduced him into the tank. He had a look around, then settled in in the nice hidey hole sandstone replica I had and spent the rest of the day peeking out and watching his tank mates, once the light went off, he immediately came out to have a wander, so I dropped in some blood worm and went to bed.
Got up the next day, and lo and behold, he is gone.
Hes not in the sandstone.
Hes not in any of the plants.
Hes not behind or in my filter, and he couldnt have gotten out as I sealed up all holes when I got him, as I know they are jumpers.
3 days have passed and my lovely guy is still a no show
I've even gone searching around the tank in case he did manage to escape, but no luck (is that a good thing? Hehe)
The tank is quite densly planted, but not enough to hide a 5 inch black fish, and there is nowhere bar the sandstone that I can see all of that he can be.
Tis a mystery, and Im sad
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The tank is small community, biggest is a male betta, the elephant was 5 inches, so that rules out the eating, unless that is one impressive betta!
I just did a more thorough search, and hes just not in there. Also not anywhere around it, so didint jump. Not stuck in the lid, not stuck in the filter, and i dead he would be stuck at the intake within an hour or 2, but he aint. If he does turn up, then im naming him solid snake, for he is the master of espionage.
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I hope he turns up too
Was really happy about getting one. Please Log in to join the conversation.
they always had a dead jump fish on the floor
Now THAT is impressive,a dead fish jumping!!
always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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they always had a dead jump fish on the floor
Now THAT is impressive,a dead fish jumping!!
That right he died in the tank and then jump out and dry out.
That would be a ecumenical matter!!!
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Yes, the only ornament in there is a fake sandstone which I checked carefully, and I sealed the lid, and checked all around the tank. It also has a strong water surface current, so it should be very well oxygenated.
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