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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
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10 Feb 2009 11:32 #1
by mrsFishpatrick (Astrid Fitzpatrick)
I am looking for hints,tips,tricks etc on how to catch my krib fry out of my tank without tearing the whole tank apart, is there any other way of doing it?
thanks for the reply
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10 Feb 2009 12:03 #2
by serratus (Drew Latimer)
A hose and syphon them out or a kitchen baster and suck them out both work!!!!
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10 Feb 2009 13:12 #3
by JohnH (John)
I think Mrs FP's fry are somewhat larger than recently hatch fry?
Here are a couple of methods which have worked for me down the years, one is to use a fairly deep net which you sink into the tank with some either sinking pellets or, when I used to use them, frozen Bloodworms. Eventually the fish will overcome their distrust of the net and venture into it after the tasty morsels, this is where the sinking pellets have the advantage as they will stay in the net more than would Bloodworms or the like.
This is a bit of a waiting game and you will need another net to put in sharply (once the fish you want to catch are in the first net and feeding) to block off the escape route.
This isn't foolproof but works pretty well.
My other ploy to catch 'difficult' fish is to make a trap from a plastic drink bottle. You cut the 'shoulder' of the bottle at the point where it starts to taper in to the top - and then you're left with a sort of funnel. This is then reversed and jammed into the bottle the wrong way around making a crude 'funnel trap.
You need to make a few holes in it to keep it submerged and I usually put in some coarse gravel to keep it in place on the bottom of the tank. You then - once again - put in some tit-bits and await results. The fish find it easy to follow the funnel into the trap but they don't manage to escape quite as easily as now they only have the hole the size of the bottle top to escape from.
I hope this is making sense?
A small word of warning here though - if any of your Corys venture into the trap they should be released pretty promptly, as there is no water surface for them to rise up to for air they quickly become stressed - I have even had them die in a trap such as this.
Your Kribs will be OK though - and anything else which ventures in, just watch out for the Cats!
Good luck in your quest, but deep down my suspicion is that you might need to fall back on the netting them method - with the subsequent upheaval of your tank.
John
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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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It's a long way to Tipperary.
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10 Feb 2009 15:10 #4
by mrsFishpatrick (Astrid Fitzpatrick)
Thanks for that John, might try the bottle method when I can keep watching it, but my sneeking suspicion is that my tank will have to be pulled to shreds to get all of them out.
Thanks for the reply serratus, but John is right, they wouldn't go safely through a syphon anymore.
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11 Feb 2009 17:35 #5
by derek (Derek Doyle)
kribs are among the easiest fish to catch and can be cajoled or tricked into swimming into the net. always use a large net or two as this is more practical and less stressful for fish. place caught fish into a bucket or tub for selection.
two methods i often use with success are
1. have a large net ready and surface feed the fish and as they are distracted and rise quickly catch them from beneath and place in bucket. you can then return additional fish to tank.
2. move net or nets very slowly towards fish and glass. will swim straight in as they will not feel threatened.
i have often seen people with tiny nets chasing fish for ages, stressing themselves and the fish. just remember the fish can move a lot faster than we can whisk a net under water.
for both above methods u need to take a rest after a few goes to allow uncaught fish to relax a bit.
30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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12 Feb 2009 00:07 #6
by sheag35 (Seamus Gillespie)
Fishkeeping the Only way to get wet and wild
currently 25 tanks, and breeding is the aim of everything i keep
location:Limerick
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