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
No, Not Another One
Double click on video window above, then click Watch in HD you may need to pause, let it buffer and then press play.
Clip 1
Pelvicachromis taeniatus “Moliwe” mother and some of the kids including one bellyslider that should have been culled (but how could you). There are also a few young Limia melanogaster (Blackbelly limia).
Clip 2
Feeding time in cool water tank - numerous bristlenose including the long finned albinos (that I still regret buying) a dwarf hillstream loach species, Gastromyzon ctenocephalus, the bright green guy is my favourite Corydoras species "Green Laser". The orange and black cory is Corydoras weitzmani, there is also a little male pepper C. paleatus. The skinny looking white cory near the start of the clip is a young Scleromystax prionotus, Scleromystax are closely related to corys. This tank is kept about 72F particularly for the loaches, but the rest of the fish also prefer a cooler temperature anyway.
Clip 3
Growing on tank - Corydoras paleatus and C. schultzei, Pelvicachromis taeniatus “Bipindi” AKA Yellow or Slender Krib and a gaggle of Endlers.
Clip 4
My current favourite babies, Macrobrachium dux, long-armed shrimp form Congo. You can just about see a few of the babies eating a tabimin food tablet, watch out for an appearance by Daddy!
Music: Jack Johnson - People Watching.
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great stuff daragh, the long arm daddy is really weird looking. the little loach (gastromyzin?) looks gas in among the feeding cats.
keep it up.
ps i'll give u the 100 buck fee for my vid on tuesday. make sure mr carney pays the fee.
Yeap the little loach is fully grown, they are Gastromyzon ctenocephalus. I was in Maidenhead Aquatics in Peterborough which specialises in loaches, but 9-% of the ones they had were large or agressive species. After travelling there I wanted to bring home something new and after a bit of head scratching the guy said we have these littel guys you might like, I loved them
I got six and I think they are all still in there. They have blue stripes in their tail when it is extended fully. I also got some Vietnamese Hillsteam Loach )Sewellia lineolata) from Peterborough too to replace the ones I had lost from a previous import, but unfortunately they dwindled and died, I think the water was too hot in the fish room even without a heater. I am convinced they need to be kept below 70. Whereas Gastromyzon ctenocephalus have been at 72/73 for the last 6 months or more and seem to be doing fine.100 bucks, I think there is some mistake, that was for turning up, add another 100 per minute of footage!!
Daragh
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