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
shrimp for cleaning eggs
Should work for cory eggs too?
I have been wanting to try this but surprisingly I can't find any snails.
Melander
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just wodering what shrimp are best for keepin cory eggs fungus free
thanks john
John
I have tried several shrimp and snails and had success with the all bar the Amanos, they ate some of the eggs, so you could try Cherries or Crystals or MTS snails, I have video footage somewhere of the snails crawling over the eggs and keeping them clean and never damaging good eggs.
I would not use Meth Blue at all, it is toxic to the eggs in small amounts and toxic to the fry in virtually any amount.
If you want to use something antibiotic Almond leaves or alder cones are good.
There was a great bit of research done of the egg survival rate using different methods, Meth Blue, Almond Leaves, Clean water and something else I can't recall, the clean water was the best!! Meth Blue was by far the worse. The research also reported on deformities and early deaths or the fry, it was not restricted to eg hatch success rates.
I know Meth Blue has been used for years, but is generally frowned on now for egg hatching.
What corys are they or need I ask
Daragh
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