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
rasboras
n the morning!
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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The tank was new, and I was doing large water changes in it, with cool water, and I think this helped to bring them on.
I also have a suspicion that coming out of the lfs crowded tank and into an understocked one, was a trigger, i.e. an improvement in their conditions.
Having said that anytime I seem to move fish between tanks, they seem more likely to spawn then - so I would definitely give this a go. In fact, the literature I have read suggests separating the males and females, and then introducing them into a tank in pairs, possibly leaving a cardboard box/sheet over it and only removing it the next day, to simulate first morning light, when you can observe them and make sure that they have indeed spawned. Then remove them to another tank and get some infusoria ready for the fry
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I would be a bit nervous, if just one in particular has 'swollen up', as I had something similar happen to a beautiful rummynose tetra, before she went fins up
I would definitely go down the route of setting up a small breeding tank for these guys, as I think you will have the best chance of success this way.
I have dwarf rasbora's in my shrimp tank, which I would love to spawn. They're on a diet of brine shrimp and bloodworms and have coloured up beautifully, but so far haven't spawned (that I can tell), I will be adding RO water to their water changes from now on to see if that might help...,
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