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
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Ctenopoma acutirostre. Behaviour
Probably not the most popular fish in the world, and can be a bit naughty at times.
Does anyone else keep these magnificent fish?
ian
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That particular specimen was bought from one of the 'superstores' we have.....quite a bizarre place to find selling such a odd-ball fish.
@BlueRam, they are a stunning looking fish and could be on the knife-edge for being called a community fish.
I find that when I keep these on their own, they show a very shy 'lay-in-wait' predatory behaviour and would only eat frozen food.
When kept with quite quiet fish, I found that suddenly their behaviour changed to be a swimming predator using their bizarre swimming manor to slowly follow (stalk) fish around (eying the other fish to see if they might fit in their mouths no doubt
). Yet would still only eat very very select food.But, I recently blonked the Ctenompona in with red hook pacus.....and suddenly the behaviour changed into a very competitive fish and behaving like one-of-the-gang. No more stalking behaviour, but simply mucks in with the red hook behaviour. No more shyness. No more snobbery with food.
Lovely fish.
ian
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@Draco.....the common name is Leopard Bush Fish, but some places sell them as Climbing Perch.
That particular specimen was bought from one of the 'superstores' we have.....quite a bizarre place to find selling such a odd-ball fish.
@BlueRam, they are a stunning looking fish and could be on the knife-edge for being called a community fish.
I find that when I keep these on their own, they show a very shy 'lay-in-wait' predatory behaviour and would only eat frozen food.
When kept with quite quiet fish, I found that suddenly their behaviour changed to be a swimming predator using their bizarre swimming manor to slowly follow (stalk) fish around (eying the other fish to see if they might fit in their mouths no doubt
But, I recently blonked the Ctenompona in with red hook pacus.....and suddenly the behaviour changed into a very competitive fish and behaving like one-of-the-gang. No more stalking behaviour, but simply mucks in with the red hook behaviour. No more shyness. No more snobbery with food.
Lovely fish.
ian
ian wat size do these max out at 1 thing is tellin me that they would be small enough then again lookin at the pic and lookin at his eye im thinkin they could be a large enough fish?
Sean
Sean Crowe
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Location: Navan
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