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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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12 Sep 2012 17:33 #1 by anglecichlid (ciaran hogan)
K lads here we go again,I bought a pair of kribs on the 5 of September,done a 40% water change today and gave the tank a good feed of frozen blood worm,just had a look in and seen the male acting a little aggressive toward a few of my Corys.so had a scan around to see the female and she was hold up in a little bog wood cave,so I took the phone out and stuck the light on and seen her with 50 or so eggs,really wasn't expecting this to happen because I believe it's hard to get a pair,any I'm sure I could google information on how to look after them but I like the livewire info that comes from the fishheads here,(that's a complement btw ;) )anyway here's the situation,there in my 180 community tank,so the chances are that some of the fry will fall victim to bigger fish,can I move the eggs? If so do I take the parents aswell?

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12 Sep 2012 18:27 #2 by JohnH (John)
Replied by JohnH (John) on topic kribensis
Firstly well done, you're becoming quite the accomplished breeder, aren't you?
Female Kribs aren't hard to find, but a problem sometime arises with Kribs - I can't remember which way round it is - (cue Ian, he has a better memory than I do) but I read a paper years ago giving details of Kribensis breeding results with regard to pH of the water.
I think it was the largest proportion of fry turned out to be female when the pH was low, males when the pH was high and somewhere in the middle (neutral) brought a fairly equal amount of males to females.
I have, actually, had similar results with Bettas, Paradise Fish, Apistos and Rams.
Anyway, back to your Kribs, whatever you do will not save every one of the fry - they wouldn't be the easiest of fish to sell, so that isn't so crucial - the parents will 'fight tooth and nail' (but not literally) to protect their fry, but eventually some of the bolder ones get 'wanderlust' and creep away unnoticed. It's then that they are at their most vulnerable - are your Angels in this tank? - They'll make short work of any they find!

Alternatively you could move the eggs into a hatching tank and let bubbles from an airstone pass in their vicinity, but you would then miss the whole 'baby-minding' scenario.

I have tried to move fish into a new tank with their eggs - but only with limited success, although fish like Kribs do have very strong parental tendencies so could be OK.

Why not leave this lot to their own devices and get a tank ready for the next spawning? - It will be quite soon after the initial spawning if all the first brood succomb.

Let us know how things work out, and what you decide to do.

John

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14 Sep 2012 19:29 #3 by anglecichlid (ciaran hogan)
Cheers john,I wouldn't say accomplished! Lucky more than anythingEiffel its anything I'd say it's the water quality,I'm a bit of a stickler when it comes to the water! Mind you the only thing I test would be the ph on a weekly basis,I only use rain water and have been for the last 3 or so months,I think that has a big part to play,angels,Corys and now the kribs,nevertheless I'm happy as a pig in muck. Anyway moving on I think I'm gonna lift the eggs and maybe leave the next one in,got a lovely little 12 ltr tank on adverts the other day that I'm dyn to use!

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But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,


And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
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15 Sep 2012 16:17 #4 by BlueRam (Sean Crowe)
Replied by BlueRam (Sean Crowe) on topic kribensis

Cheers john,I wouldn't say accomplished! Lucky more than anythingEiffel its anything I'd say it's the water quality,I'm a bit of a stickler when it comes to the water! Mind you the only thing I test would be the ph on a weekly basis,I only use rain water and have been for the last 3 or so months,I think that has a big part to play,angels,Corys and now the kribs,nevertheless I'm happy as a pig in muck. Anyway moving on I think I'm gonna lift the eggs and maybe leave the next one in,got a lovely little 12 ltr tank on adverts the other day that I'm dyn to use!


Before you know it one off the rooms in the house will be turned into a fish room or even a new fish house out the back haha

Fair play on the spawn mate they wil not stop for you know my pair ago every 2 weeks if even but i only feed live and frozen food to that tank

Keep us posted if you want anymore let me know have a load here im going to move soon

Sean

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