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

Advice setting up a first aquarium

mickeywallace (Michael Wallace Cath Woods)
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15 Apr 2008 16:31 #31 by mickeywallace (Michael Wallace Cath Woods)

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HI serialmatrix
by the sounds of it i would go with the runt of the litter idea,
the water change may have been more than he could take the fact he was shying away during feeding just made it worse.

fish die just as people do for no reason, i would keep an eye on the other fish for a few days and if anything changes let us know
Mickey

Mickey Wallace & Cath Woods

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21 Apr 2008 10:54 #32 by serialmatrix (damien carrick)

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Well more than a week on the four remaining tetras seemed fine. Still active and still eating like mad. Yesterday I went to get more to keep their numbers up but the tank which had about 30 tetras two weeks previously were completely gone. Found it a bit weird but then also thought...it would only take around 4 people coming in and buying 8 at a go to empty the tank?
So I got the 2 albino corys that were available. I put them in the tank at 4pm but they seemed completely frantic. They were going up and down the glass all around the tank and never settled on the bottom. They literally did this non stop until after 11pm. I was worried they'd exhaust themselves and assumed this behaviour isn't normal? They seemed ok then and were exploring the tank and going in and out of the ship. I'll check on them today after work but was their behaviour yesterday adnormal? If so was it just a case that they were stressed by the move and how bad is it if it continues?

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22 Apr 2008 13:14 #33 by Peter OB (Peter O'Brien)

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I wouldn't worry about the cory behaviour, it's pretty normal for that to happen occasionally.

Be sure to dechlorinate your water properly with them as i find corys very sensitive to Chlorine.

I remember when i first started out I used \"Ammo-Lock\" instead of a proper dechlorinator, the corys started dropping like flies!!! :blush:

Smoke me a Kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast.

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22 Apr 2008 14:21 #34 by serialmatrix (damien carrick)

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I'm using API Stress Coat at the moment with water changes so hopefully that won't happen.
Do the corys constantly forage? They were still very active when I went to bed last night around 1am and when I got up at 5.30am they were doing the same. Do they not need much rest?

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23 Apr 2008 14:42 #35 by oog1111 (Orlagh O Grady)

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Hi,
my albino corys go through times of being very active, swimming all round and up and down. 9they occasionally bump into things. I've read that it is thought that albinos have poorer sight than the bronze...don't know if this is fully true, but from watching mine, i would tend to think their sight isn't the best.)when they're not swimming around they are almost constantly searching for food, but they do rest sometimes. wouldn't worry about them getting sleep, if house is empty during the day they will prob do a bit of resting then.
another thing i've also read is that certain fish will recognise the person who feeds them coming, and if they spot this person will swim over and back, fast just behind the glass. this is a sort of please feed me swim!.
a few of my fish do this particurally my paradise fish.

have fun watching!

Orla

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23 Apr 2008 15:02 - 23 Apr 2008 15:25 #36 by serialmatrix (damien carrick)

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Ye I was wondering bout their vision because I've seen them go straight into the glass and the filter a couple of times.
The tetras seem to know when I feed them. I get in around 8pm in the evenings and when I go over to the tank they all swim to the top of the tank waiting for me to lift the lid. Is there a good or bad time to feed fish in general? Would it be better to feed them in the morning but for me that would mean feeding them just before 6am.
The corys barely ate anything the first couple of times I fed them but they both fed on the pellets yesterday for a good while so I think they're settling much better now.

Neon tetra: