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
What To Do?!?!
Are they definitely altums? Unusual if not unknown for altums to be so small, if wild caught, unless they are captive bred? Which makes them even more interesting. Altums are fussy fish and taking them on just before you go and leave them for two weeks was not a great idea! Have you someone knowledgeable to look after them while away.
Adult fish will survive a two week food diet and lack of water change without any issues provided they are healthy and there are no power cuts etc., however leaving a tank of new altums, particularly ones that small may be asking for trouble.
Regarding the treatment for white spot, are you sure that is what it is, one spot on one fish does not sound like white spot to me.
I wish you the best of luck with them and fingers crossed they will be fine when you return.
Daragh
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the reason i took them is you dont see them for sale too much and im sure they wouldn't have been there when i got back
my mam and dad will be here to keep an eye on them
im puttin the food for the fish into 14 different tubes so they wont overfeed haha
im gettin my uncle to keep an eye on my water conditions and do a water change if needed he's kept tropical fish for a few years when he was younger and now keeps marines
im gonna leave instructions regarding how much to take out how much cycle and stress coat needs to go in if a water change is needed
so im well prepared!
as for the whitespot i just hope your right!
and we have altums in wackers on the long mile for sale, arabu1973 has first pick on them but there is like 30 of them at the mo
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
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