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
2 young angel fish just spawned
The chances of these hatching first time around are pretty slim, they'll be just as likely to eat them themselves - but fear not - once they start spawning chances are they will repeat the process every ten days or so.
You could try removing the leaf complete with eggs, there is plenty of advice in the 'back pages' of the Forum for doing this.
My advice though - for what it's worth - would be to leave them at the mercy of the other tank-mates this time and prepare a spare tank - one 24x15x12 would be OK - and after this time get the new pair into it as soon as reasonably possible. The adults will have a much better chance of raising their next batch with no tank-mates.
If you decide to try to rescue the present eggs, or isolate the pair for the next spawning best of luck whichever route you take.
Doubtless more advice will be forthcoming during the course of the evening.
John
Location:
N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
ITFS member.
It's a long way to Tipperary.
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i think john hit the nail on the head with his post but after that its a matter of personal choice realy. removing the eggs to prevent them from being eaten by the parents severly weakens the parental instinct of the fish so its possible that the offsping will eat their own eggs when it comes their time to breed. this is what they do in angelfish farms and is quite undesirable to many keepers... to some people if the parents don't raise the fry without eating them then their not worth breeding unless a certain form is to be produced. if anything you will gain experience along with lots of healhy fry also
another thing i found is if you remove their eggs the female could kill the male under the assumption he ate them all so best to put them in their own tank and let them have some fun i think
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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