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
Male or Female?
- m_sb (Zac)
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really appriciate this
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Zac
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I personally would not hazard a guess - perhaps someone might like to, but not me.
Quite often the gender of Adults can be determined by their nature and how they react to other Angels, but there really isn't enough there to even begin to try.
Maybe someone else here can identify them for you.
John
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N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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It's a long way to Tipperary.
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Males and females of angelfish slightly differ in shape. The difference may be noticed as early as when the fish are about three months old. Males' bodies are a little oval or oblong if you watch them from the side. Females are more rounded.Also males have massive or bulky foreheads which look like humps as they get older.
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Here an other video for better look may be it will help more to identify them if first two are female i think then all female so i need one male or three female can live with one male or need to remove them just keep two of them?
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I myself can't tell but the fish might be able to!
Condition them with lots of clean water and food,frozen bloodworm
Works well,and if there's a male there it wont be long before he starts
Showing off,
Cutting a female off while flaring his gills at the same time is one sign,
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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just so you know how to sex them there are 5 ways to sex angels
1) the 1st black vertical stripe that passes through the eye appears tp be straighter in the male than in the female, in the female the stripe has a definate curve upwards towards the start of the dorsal fin
2)the spines at the base of the start of the dorsal fin are more jagged and irregular in the male than the female
3) the space between the extended ventral fins(feelers) and the start of the anal fin is shorter in males and less curved in females
4)the tube that appears just prior to breeding is differently shaped, in the male it appears to be more pointed and carried at a more forward angle, but in the female it appears to be blunt and appears to be carried at a slight angle to the rear
5)the lower jaw of the male slightly over laps the upper jaw, which is the reverse for the female as her upper jaw slightly overlaps her bottom jaw
hope this helps
Seamus
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And buying fish tanksfemales have lady bumps and boys have empty wallets because of females...........
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anyone have good boy for them?
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And buying fish tanksfemales have lady bumps and boys have empty wallets because of females...........
so very very true................Look Darling I got it at 1/2 price.....
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