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
mixed cichlid tank advice please? video & pic aded
(Cynotilapia white top) x2
(Labidochromis yellow) x1
(Melanochromis auratus) x1
(Pseudotropheus sp acei) x2
(unknown) x1 this one is all orange with kinda a bump on his head?
(unknown) x1 this one i got from the same tank as the acei and is all brown with jade green eyes and he kinda has a thicker jaw if that makes any sense?
plus:
red minor serpae tetra x1
cherry barb x1
common pleco x2
unknown alge eater/sucker x1
The biggest cichlid in the tank is roughly 4inch give or take and both plecos are at least 6inch,there's loads of rocks and fake plants in the tank for the fish to swim in and out of, the tank itself is 4ft.
One other thing Ive noticed the last couple of days is one of my fish isn't eating and is behaving weird like shaking his head and rubbing it off of the rocks and gravel and doing a lot of yawning, he seems reluctant to want to move from one area of the tank,also he does seem to be getting bullied a little bit by the 2/3 bigger guys would that be it? i get my water tested every week from my local pet shop (im rubbish i know) and im told its good,to be honest i do a weekly water change of 10% sometimes more if needed with evaporation (open top tank) and i rarely have a fish die or get sick like the only fish that's not made it in the tank in the past year was an angel and im pretty sure he just got the shite kicked out of him,
All advice and comments welcome,
Thanks
liam.
heres a video i took yesterday morning,i have 2x 20kg 10mm bags of coral sand to go in im just still trying to figure out what to do about the ph levels
also im going to try add a picture of the cichlid i was saying about getting bullied ,i think she is carrying eggs in her mouth
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